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Hip Hop Honors 2009

VH1 honors 25 years of the Def Jam record label that started in 1984

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hip hop has a lot of years and still going

  • Mar 11, 2011
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its good to remember hip hop

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review by . October 15, 2009
posted in Hip-Hop Culture: Breakdance, MC, DJ, Graffiti
I’m old enough to remember the beginning of Def Jam. I grew up in the Bay Area and was only 6 when they started in 1984, so I wasn’t there for Rick Rubin’s dorm parties 3000 miles away at NYU where, Rubin said, “it was a 10x10 room that had two refrigerator-sized speakers with turntables on top of them" and the Beasties, Run DMC and LL Cool J were frequent visitors. Def Jam’s first release wasn't hip-hop, it was punk- a 7” 45 RPM single by Rubin’s …
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October 13, 2009: VH1 honors 25 years of the Def Jam hip-hop record label founded by Lyor Cohen, Rick Rubin, and Russell Simmons in 1984 which helped establish hip-hop and rap as a force in the music industry.

House Band: The Roots (Def Jam artist)
House DJ: Ed Lover

Performaces By: 
The Roots and Eminem
Public Enemy (Def Jam Artist) and DJ Jazzy Jeff
Ludacris and Scarface (Def Jam Artists)
Kid Rock
Wale, KRS-One, and Travis from Gym Class Heroes
Warren G (Def Jam Artist) and Trey Songz
Method Man and Redman (Def Jam Artists)
Method Man and Mary J Blige
Onyx (Def Jam Artists)
Ashanti and Ja Rule
Oran "Juice" Jones (Def Jam Artist)
DMX
EPMD (Def Jam Artist)
Foxy Brown and Fabolous (Def Jam Artist)
Ghostface Killah (Def Jam Artist)
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