First, Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, the founders of hip-hop's most influential label, Def Jam Recordings, led the standing-room-only crowd at the New York Public Library's majestic Celeste Bartos ...

ATLANTA — The music world is mourning the death of Irv Gotti, the legendary hip-hop producer and co-founder of Murder Inc. Records. He died at the age of 54. Def Jam Records reported his passing on ...

Few names hold as much weight when discussing the pioneers who shaped Hip-Hop as Rick Rubin. Born on March 10, Rubin played a crucial role in laying the foundation for the genre’s mainstream success.

Irv Gotti, the Def Jam record executive behind the Murder Inc. label, has died. He was 54. In a statement posted to Gotti's Instagram, his family wrote, "It is with heavy hearts that we announce the ...

A former music video producer has sued Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons, 66, alleging that he raped her while she worked for the label in the 1990s. In a lawsuit filed in New York on ...

A woman said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that Russell Simmons raped her at his Los Angeles home in 2016, joining five other women who have publicly leveled rape allegations against the music mogul.

Murder Inc. Records co-founder and former Def Jam executive Irv Gotti has been sued for sexual assault, the Miami New Times reports. Gotti, whose legal name is Irving Domingo Lorenzo, was sued by a ...

ATLANTA — The music world is mourning the death of Irv Gotti, the legendary hip-hop producer and co-founder of Murder Inc. Records. He died at the age of 54. Def Jam Records reported his passing on ...