Bio
- Owner & Founder of Def Jam Records
- Began career by organizing concerts and managing inner-city artists until helping form Run-DMC.
- Began careers of unknowns like LL Cool J and Public Enemy famous.
- Turned Hip-Hop from a race-based culture to a youth-based one by signing white rappers Beastie Boys and pairing Run-DMC with Aerosmith.
- Founded and built PHAT FARM, a $140 million clothing business based on the idea that fashion designers co-opted Hip-Hop styles.
