The North Coast Music Festival is barging on to the Chicago music-fest scene with three days of impressive line-ups, stacked with rappers, jam bands, and electronica DJs.
Def Jam rapper Logic came through with Young Sinatra IV, or YSIV for short.
The Def Jam rapper's latest project YSIV debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, coming in second place after Lil Wayne's highly anticipated and repeatedly delayed Tha Carter V.
The Island Def Jam rapper Big K.R.I.T. was born in Meridian.
He had been partying at a strip club on Lincoln Road just hours before he was caught drag racing against Def-Jam rapper Khalil, who was driving a red Lamborghini, on a public strip in the area.
Since then, the tiny British rapper signed to Def Jam had a minor hit, and left Def Jam.
Kanye West featuring The-Dream, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin and Chance the Rapper "Ultralight Beam" (Def Jam) Mr. West and guests offer up prayers and affirmations in a track that compresses a gospel service for hip-hop impact.
Fabolous, a Brooklyn rapper on the Def Jam label who has worked with OnSmash.com, said competition among blogs had resulted in a free-for-all in which e-mail accounts for artists and producers had been hacked in search of any snippets of new music that could attract readers.
In Vendetta's story mode, you choose a wrestler and move him into the upper echelons of the fight circuit, taking on a succession of made-up characters and the occasional famous rapper from the Def Jam stable of artists, like Ludacris or DMX.
The official remixes, "Touch My Body (Love/Hate Remix)" and "Touch My Body (Tricky Remix)", were produced by Carey, Christopher Tricky Stewartrt and The-Dream, and both feature Def Jam labelmate rapper Rick Ross on the first verse and R&B singer The-Dream, who co-produced the song, on the fourth verse.
When Pop & Hiss quizzed Big Boi on whether Out Kast's long-awaited return would happen after his sophomore effort -- part of a three-album deal he inked with Def Jam – the rapper laughed off the question and offered a cryptic hint of "something like that".
