![]() ![]() I grew up amid the Great Plains, and hip-hop always felt like my ticket out for a while, it seemed I marched to the beat of a different Def Jam record every week. A new glossy coffee-table book, Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, reveals that aspect of the label's legacy in vivid detail. What you may not know, unless you lived outside of New York (like me), is how instrumental it was in bringing hip-hop to the masses. You know the little story of Def Jam Recordings, started way back in history by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons. With Rick and Russell in an NYU dormitory Now, here's a little story I've got to tell Public Enemy in 1987, as seen in the book Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label.
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