When Def Jam wanted to sign Method Man, they wanted to sign Method Man and Old Dirty. And Old Dirty wanted to be on Def Jam - everybody, that was like the dream label. But if I had Old Dirty and Method Man on Def Jam, that's two key pieces going in the same direction, whereas there's other labels that needed to be infiltrated.
Def Jam commented on one of my Instagram photos once, and all my friends me hit me up, like 'Yoooooo, you signed to Def Jam?'
Def Jam is an iconic label.
Def Jam is the reason why I started a label.
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was - I survived Def Jam.
Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.'
Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella were two equal entities under the Def Island umbrellas.
My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like, that conglomerate.
Manny Smith & Interscope CEO John Janick understand me and my vision for myself and also my label. Interscope gave me the opportunity to take over the game completely, and that's what I'm going to do.
I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.
The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.
I chose Interscope because I like the people there and the environment that was there. And the fact that not a lot of people get signed to Interscope.
We all liked Elektra because it was a boutique label. 'Oh, my God, we can be on the same label as Paul Butterfield!'
It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn’t get with that
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