DefJam

While Island Def Jam Music Group has executed some of the more innovative marketing plans of the last few decades, their new idea to place advertising inserts in CD liner notes might be one of their crassest moves yet. Here's how it works: 1...

Def Jam Records VP Shakir Stewart, who succeeded Jay-Z as the head of the record label, died in Atlanta on Saturday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police. Stewart had a tremendously successful career and appeared particularly enthusiastic about his recent promotion to Jay-Z's vacated position after having signed several of the label's most successful artists including Rick Ross