Happy Birthday, Def Jam
CNN has a very cool story today on the record label, Def Jam.
In graphics, quotes, and reporting text, they explore how the company began in a college dorm room and basically took over the world.
Highlights include the time Rick Rubin met DJ Jazzy Jeff in college, Russell Simmon’s lucrative licensing deal in the ’90s, and the addition of Fall Out Boy to the label in 2004.
2004? Wow, that makes us feel old.
The one thing the pictogram could use?
Some information on all the talented women on Def Jam!
They never mention it, but we remember meeting Rihanna in 2005, after she first came to New York as a Def Jam protege.
And now we feel even older…
