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.
For hip-hop music in the early 1980s, that label was Def Jam. A new book attempts to capture that history in photos, interviews and essays. It's called Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label. LL Cool J was just 17 when he became one of the first artists signed to the company. The men who founded the Def Jam label in 1984 weren't much older.
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.