Despite this bleak outlook, Grant remained hopeful. Buell had arrived. April 7th, 1862 The Second Day Grant s army, which had grown in number overnight, was now bolstered by Buell on the left and Wallace on the right and numbered over 50,000. General P.G.T.
For hip-hop music in the early 1980s, that label was Def Jam. A new book attempts to capture that history in photos, interviews and essays. It's called Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label. LL Cool J was just 17 when he became one of the first artists signed to the company. The men who founded the Def Jam label in 1984 weren't much older.
Co-founder of Def Jam Records, Russell Simmons was the force behind the hip-hop revolution, promoting stars like the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy and LL Cool J.