Legendarna wytwórnia w Polsce
1984 was a year like ... Rick Rubin and Russell Simons - two well-known names in the industry were introduced to each other, which resulted in cooperation, which resulted in the establishment of an independent record company.
Def Jam Recordings, because it received such a name, was created with a view to gathering the most promising rappers and vocalists from the R&B circle, publishing their work and supporting them with necessary marketing activities allowing in the long run to sell a significant number of records and thus generating huge profits. The first single signed with the extremely characteristic Def Jam Recordings logo was the classic from T La Rock and DJ Jazzy Jeff, which you can check below:
The next nicknames will certainly tell you more about what giant we are writing, because the first two singles marked with the catalog number were responsible: LL COOL J and Beastie Boys!
The songs met with a favorable reception from fans eager to reach for discs, which in consequence resulted in cooperation in the distribution field with other companies that were much more financially more powerful.
This resulted in the signing of subsequent publishing contracts over the next few years, with the above mentioned being joined by such figures as: EPMD, ONYX, Nas, Kanye West, Jay-Z [who is even the director of Def Jam Recordings for a moment] and many, many others.
The company's growth resulted in disagreements between the owners, who changed more and more often in directorships and the unclear status of artists affected by these changes. Despite these adversities, the company, although it has changed its legal status many times, opened its representative offices outside the USA - in Germany and Japan at the beginning of the current millennium. Twenty years later, we got the first CD with the Def Jam Recordings Poland logo.
Below we have collected 5 nicknames from the USA and compared them with the same number of Polish looking for a common element for them, sometimes a bit exaggerated which we are not going to hide. This form of presentation may induce you to look for analogies among other artists from the native yard and from across the ocean, or may result in the desire to check the faces of hitherto unknown.