The How to Be a Player Soundtrack, released by Def Jam Recordings on August 5, 1997, featured the hit single "Big Bad Mama" by Foxy Brown featuring Dru Hill.
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Since then, the label has branched out into various rock and jazz releases and even spawned two specialist reissue sublabels, Infinite Zero Archive (a joint venture with Rick Rubin's American Recordings), and District Line, which specializes in reissuing the music of Rollins' hometown of Washington, D.C. It is also used as the name of Rollins' Blazin' (finishing move) in Def Jam: Fight For NY.
He was the voice of the main protagonist Marcus Reed in the 2005 video game True Crime: New York City, as well as the voice of the main protagonist in the "Build a Label" mode of the 2007 video game Def Jam: Icon.
Modstar’s client list, which continues to grow, includes Viacom, Warner Bros., Ford Models, HBO, Def Jam, and Cirque du Soleil.
He also had an opportunity to be hands on experience with the promotion and marketing of C&C Music Factory, and Def Jam recording artists, L.L. Cool J and EPMD.
The company's roster would later represent more than 300 labels such as SubPop, Def Jam, Secretly Canadian, and Ed Banger and sold more than 30 millions records between 1998 and 2005.
And then Lyor Cohen, who runs Atlantic, used to be with Def Jam, used to manage us, and he called me and said, 'Q-Tip, you're crazy if you fuck wit' Clive.
More recently, Irby has been involved with launching the career of young R&B vocalist and The Inc/Def Jam recording artist Lloyd.
The L.A. Posse first rose to prominence in 1987 when Def Jam founder Russell Simmons signed them to produce LL Cool J's album Bigger and Deffer.
As a veteran music industry executive she served as a marketer with Atlantic Records, Sony, Def Jam, Tommy Boy, Interscope, and Relativity.