Def Jam Recordings

Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded

Rihanna

Pop - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 5/06/2007

When you've released a pair of albums containing a few monster singles and a considerable amount of unsteady, unassured material, why mess around the ...

Snoop Dogg Presents The Algorithm

Snoop Dogg

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 19/11/2021

Since he got a job as an artistic consultant at Def Jam, Snoop Dogg has obviously been keen to promote musicians who are related one way or another to ...

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 15/11/1986

Perhaps Licensed to Ill was inevitable -- a white group blending rock and rap, giving them the first number one album in hip-hop history. But that rea ...

Loud

Rihanna

Pop - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 1/01/2010

Loud would not sound quite so slapdash if it did not follow Good Girl Gone Bad, one of the best pop albums of its decade, and Rated R, one of the most ...

Bobby Tarantino III

Logic

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 30/07/2021

In July of 2020, rapper Logic announced he'd be retiring from music with the release of his sixth album, No Pressure. The record was one of his more f ...

The Best Of DMX

DMX

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 26/01/2010

In the three years since the slightly superior DMX collection The Definition of X: The Pick of the Litter was released, the high-intensity rapper conc ...

Bobby Tarantino II

Logic

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 9/03/2018

After the consecration, it's time for some recreation. Logic rounded off 2017 with an authoritative statement of the same stature as Everybody, his th ...

No Pressure

Logic

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 24/07/2020

It was a combination of raw talent and willingness to take his artistry to personal places that brought Baltimore rapper Logic to the mainstream. Hype ...

Fear Of A Black Planet (Deluxe Edition)

Public Enemy

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 20/03/1990

At the time of its release in March 1990 -- just a mere two years after It Takes a Nation of Millions -- nearly all of the attention spent on Public E ...

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 1/10/1991

Coming down after the twin high-water marks of It Takes a Nation of Millions and Fear of a Black Planet, Public Enemy shifted strategy a bit for their ...

Bobby Tarantino

Logic

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 1/07/2016

After topping the R&B/Hip-Hop charts in 2015 with his sci-fi concept sophomore album, The Incredible True Story, Logic returned the following year wit ...

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (Deluxe Edition)

Public Enemy

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 28/06/1988

For many, Public Enemy’s second album is the greatest in rap history. And when it hit music stores in 1988, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us B ...

YS Collection Vol. 1

Logic

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 25/06/2021

After Logic announced his return from a brief retirement, previewed his collaboration with Madlib (as MadGic), and released a new solo track ("Intro") ...

Exodus

DMX

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 28/05/2021

Releasing a posthumous album less than two months after a musician's death can be a daunting prospect. But on Exodus, Swizz Beatz is at the controls, ...

Diamonds

Rihanna

Pop - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 1/01/2012

Unlike previous lead singles such as "Umbrella," "Russian Roulette," "Only Girl (In the World)," and "We Found Love," "Diamonds" introduces Rihanna's ...

Chilombo (Explicit) (Deluxe)

Jhené Aiko

R&B - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 6/03/2020

Jhené Aiko's flair for promoting emotional healing and exuding unfiltered eroticism reaches a new peak on her third album. Recorded mostly in Hawaii w ...

Big Fish Theory

Vince Staples

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 23/06/2017

With his 2014 powerful and greasy seven-song Hell Can Wait EP of exclusively live from the street dark hip hop, Vince Staples showed from the get-go t ...

Big Subwoofer (Single Version)

MOUNT WESTMORE

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 20/10/2021

Talk That Talk (Deluxe)

Rihanna

Pop - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 1/01/2011

Despite sounding rushed to capitalize on fourth quarter sales, 2010’s Loud proved that Rihanna’s reign indeed would not let up. The album’s first thre ...

Summertime '06

Vince Staples

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 30/06/2015

Blowing the promise of his Hell Can Wait EP into an extraordinary double LP, Summertime '06 finds rapper Vince Staples with all the pieces in place. H ...

Trip

Jhené Aiko

R&B - Released by Def Jam Recordings on 22/09/2017

R&B singer/songwriter Jhene Aiko released her sophomore album, Trip, in 2017. Clocking in at over 90 minutes and 22 tracks, the album documents Aiko's ...