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...Music] MCA, Geffen, Def Jam, Motown, A&M, Interscope, Island...
...merchants--choose your epithet. They were in love with the sound of their own voice. They wouldn't shut up. You could gag them with terry cloth, wrap them in cellophane, dump them in the Mariana Trench--you could plug your ears with a Walkman and crank up a Def Leppard CD to 10--and still you'd hear the little tinny yap-yap of some office seeker promising cleaner streets, safer subways, cavity-free teeth. There was no end to the talking. It was inescapable, depressing, mind numbing. Those were the days! Now it's worse, much worse...
According to Combs' friend Russell Simmons, chairman of Def Jam Records, the attack on Stoute erupted from a moment of superheated passion. "Sean is an artist, and artists are about guts and instinct and emotions," Simmons says. "He's not a gangster." Says Strauss Zelnick, CEO of BMG Entertainment, Bad Boy's parent company: "It's unkind and unfair to judge Puffy on one incident...
...industry will also have to risk incurring the wrath of musicians themselves. No longer completely dependent on music companies, bands will be likely to break out on their own if they feel they are being too restricted. Chuck D of Public Enemy recently split with Def Jam Records because he felt the label was unresponsive to the group's needs. The band has had continued success since the breakup with the label, keeping up fan interest by posting tracks on their Web site and selling regular and MP3 albums through Atomicpop.com. "Digital distribution levels the playing field," Chuck D told...
...them find fresh rap talent. Lauryn Hill is signed to Ruffhouse, which has a distribution deal with the larger Columbia. Similar arrangements have made tens of millions of dollars for the heads of these smaller labels, such as Combs (Bad Boy), Master P (No Limit), Jermaine Dupri (So So Def), and Ronald and Bryan Williams (co-CEOs of Cash Money, home to rising rapper Juvenile...