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Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty

The Boi’s back in town Big Boi’s long-awaited post-Speakerboxxx solo album was poised to become the Chinese Democracy of hip-hop—numerous delays, a label change and a protracted production cycle left fans wondering if they weren’t witnessing Dr. Dre’s Detox play out all over again. But after four years, Big Boi has finally dropped Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, a massive, ambitious album shot through with knee-knocking beats and deft lyrical touches from Outkast’s swagger champion....  read more

Download Big Boi's "Follow Us"

Download Big Boi’s “Follow Us.” Big Boi’s Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty will be released July 6 on Def Jam....  read more

Jay-Z Splits with Def Jam

We knew Jay-Z was a business, man, but settling a label contract over a coin flip? Now that's serious business. News of the separation between Hova and Def Jam hit the streets Thursday, when Jay spoke to RapRadar.com and confirmed that he would indeed be leaving his label of almost a decade....  read more

Catching Up With... Lady Sovereign

On New Year's Eve of 2007, Lady Sovereign towered onscreen over a million people in Times Square. The giant billboard image would dwarf anyone, but Louise Harman's five-foot one-inch frame...  read more

Def Jam preps 2LP comp for anniversary, Record Store Day

Hip-hop is in a collaborative frenzy right now. Nearly every big-name release has a small horde of featured artists, and producers and emcees are passed around the studios like so many communion chalices. Even so, uniting an entire label's best and brightest is no mean feat, since so many titanic egos would have to play nice to squeeze onto a single album. Def Jam, rap mecca that it is, is artfully sidestepping this problem by releasing a double-vinyl compilation in celebration of the label's 25th anniversary. ...  read more

Ludacris: Theater of the Mind

Collaboration tracks dominated 2008, an aesthetic writ...  read more

Shakir Stewart: 1974-2008

Shakir Stewart, the head of hip-hop label Def Jam, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound last Saturday. He was 34 years old....  read more