Despite this bleak outlook, Grant remained hopeful. Buell had arrived. April 7th, 1862 The Second Day Grant s army, which had grown in number overnight, was now bolstered by Buell on the left and Wallace on the right and numbered over 50,000. General P.G.T.
In 2001, IDJMG announced Def Jam Germany, the first international Def Jam company. This increased the label's presence around the world. Def Jam Germany signed German rappers Spezializtz, and Philly MC. The label was located in Berlin and opened on May 23, 2000. In addition to signing and marketing local artists, Def Jam Germany also marketed all U.S. signed Def Jam artists in the German territory.
The first came in 2004, when Def Jam Recordings, which since 1997 had owned a 50 percent stake in Roc-A-Fella, purchased the label outright and Jay-Z agreed to take a job as Def Jamâs president. Then in the fall of 2005, Jay-Z divested Dash of his last ties with the Roc when he bought him out of Rocawear, the hip-hop clothing line theyâd started in 1995. Def Jam has, since its inception in 1984, been rapâs preeminent label, and it is owned by Vivendi Universal, the worldâs largest record company. Jay-Z was going corporate, accepting a corner-office job that, if youâd followed the Roc-A-Fella groupâs history, you might have expected to go to Dash.