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Roc-A-Fella Records was an American hip hop record label and music management company founded by record executives and entrepreneurs Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Damon Dash, and Kareem "Biggs" Burke in 1994. [1] Carter issued his debut album, Reasonable Doubt (1996), as the label's first release, in a joint venture with Priority Records.
In 2008, Roc Nation was founded by Jay-Z with the intent of signing pop and hip hop artists, succeeding his previous label, Roc-A-Fella Records. Unlike Roc-A-Fella, Jay-Z served as the company's sole proprietor. In February 2009, Roc Nation signed its first artist, rapper J. Cole.
Music portal; Record labels in California — labels recording in &/or being produced by entertainment companies based in California Subcategories. This category has ...
Roc Nation, the powerhouse management-label-publishing firm co-founded by Jay-Z, has announced that it will merge its Roc Nation Label and Equity Distribution divisions to form Roc Nation ...
Redeye owns and operates the Yep Roc Music Group, a label group which includes Yep Roc Records, Break World Records, and Studio One Records in addition to the Riff City Sounds publishing company. It was awarded the National Association of Recording Merchandisers Distributor of the Year Award (Small Division) seven times in 2000, 2002, 2003 ...
New York state snapped up a one-third share of Jay Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records at an auction Thursday in a bid to make the label’s embattled co-founder Damon Dash pay down more than $8.7 million ...
The term is a colloquial expression for vinyl records, comparing them to the color of licorice and the shape of a pizza. [2] James Greenwood opened the first Licorice Pizza record store in July 1969 in downtown Long Beach. [3] In the next fifteen years, multiple locations spread throughout Southern California.
IRIS Distribution ( for Independent Recording Industry Services) was a digital music distribution and marketing firm based in San Francisco.Co-founded by Matt Laszuk (CEO), Bryn Boughton (CMO), Vic Sarjoo (CFO) and Eric Ferraro (General Counsel) in 2003, IRIS distributed digital music, ringtones, and video to over 450 digital retailers in over 85 countries.