Baltimore R&B/Hip-Hop group signs distribution deal with Def Jam Recordings. *“Me and my sister Lay was in class…we said there’s no girl groups out,” said Rapper Shaye about how her group Riplay was ...

Def Jam Recordings is paying its respects to the women on its roster with THE WOMEN OF DEF JAM, a 24-track compilation releasing in time with Women’s History Month. Offered as collector’s edition ...

Lichelle Laws, better known as the pioneering gangster rapper BO$$, died Monday (March 11) from kidney failure. She was 54. Despite being born and raised in Detroit, Laws became best known as a part ...

Boss, the Detroit rapper who became one of the first women to sign to Def Jam Recordings, has died of kidney failure, The Detroit News reports, citing a family spokesperson. The musician had been ...

Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam’s first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized as Bo$$), has died. She was 54. Laws’s older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper’s ...

Although Boss was the first female rapper signed to the short-lived Def Jam West division of the groundbreaking label, she was originally born in Detroit. She relocated to Los Angeles after graduating ...

In celebration of Women’s History Month, “The Women of Def Jam,” a 24-track compilation showcasing some of the top female artists in the history of the world’s premier hip-hop record label, has been ...