Jay-Z has been described as a mentor of Rihanna’s; she left Def Jam in 2014 to work with his label Roc Nation, and he reportedly helped organize her 2023 Super Bowl halftime performance.

Gotti, born Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr. on June 26, 1970, was a key figure in the sound of ‘90s and 2000s hip-hop, when brash ...

A joke Jay-Z once made to Rihanna has taken on a much darker tone. Last week, a 2005 clip from the “Tyra Banks Show” began to gain traction on Reddit. In the clip, a teenaged Rihanna explains ...

“Def Jam Recordings and the extended Def Jam family ... become major stars in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including Jay-Z. He also faced a host of legal issues when he and his sibling ...