This label made a compilation album in 2019 in only 10 days featuring over 300 artists.
Dreamville
After leaving her popular R&B group this lead single would launch her solo career & featured her future husband.
Crazy in Love - Beyonce
Appearing on the 1st installment of a 2-part album series, this song launched one of the biggest rap beefs of the 21st century issuing a direct shot. It would go on to dominate headlines for months leading to Grammy wins, lawsuits, & permanently end whatever peace that remained within "The Big 3".
Like That by Future, Metro Boomin, & Kendrick Lamar
With 32 total Grammy wins she holds the record for most grammy victories of any artist in history & be the first black woman ever to top the Billboard Hot Country songs.
Beyonce
Good Life
Can't Tell Me Nothing
Stronger
Graduation - Kayne West
Emerging from Magnolia Projects in New Orleans, this label founded by a duo would popularize the phrase "bling bling".
Cash Money Records
Sampling Ray Charles "I got a Woman" this song discuses a woman that would take your money when you're in need & features a well-known comedian delivering a memorable hook.
Gold Digger - Kayne West
Represented with serpent imagery, this song takes aim at several critics while making references to the s*x offender registry & celebrities having cosmetic surgery to make themselves look better.
HISS by Megan Thee Stallion
This Good Girl Gone Bad pridefully represents her home country of Barbados whenever given the chance. This billionaire is still on a hiatus from music due to her running a cosmetic & lingerie line.
Rihanna
Moment 4 Life
Right Thru Me
Blazin
Pink Friday - Nicki Minaj
After leaving one of the most famous rap groups at the time, this producer would start his own label becoming a defining force of West Coast hip-hop.
Death Row
This artist has ambition flow, dark evil that rots inside, joy, hustle, loyalty, millions, pain, peace, poison, power, realness, riches building, royalty, troublesome heart, war, & a cocaine quarter piece all located in his genetic makeup.
DNA - Kendrick Lamar
The Story of Adidon - Pusha T
Hailing from Memphis, she would sign to Yo Gotti's label and generate hits earning her multiple BET Award nominations all before releasing her debut album.
Glorilla
Liberian Girl
Smooth Criminal
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Bad - Michael Jackson
Originally launched as a clothing line & founded by a rapper in Brooklyn. This label began its independent operation selling CD's out of car trunks.
Roc-A-Fella Records
This song gets its name from a famous Quentin Tarantino film that features a woman in an icon yellow jumpsuit with a black stripe down the side holding a sword.
Kill Bill - Sza
****Daily Double****
After leaving this famous rap group over financial disputes, this rapper aims to expose how the group is getting exploited by their manager. The Group would never officially respond to the rapper, but this song did eventually lead to the group being disbanded.
No Vaseline by Ice Cube
Beyond music, this artist co-founded a nonprofit organization "Keep A Child Alive", which provides treatment & support to families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa & India.
Alicia Keys
We Belong Together
Shake It Off
Joy Ride
The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey
This label was founded in New York in a university dorm room in 1984. This label would feature an artist that rose from its roster to president, someone that would later host a talk show, and even have their own video game in which they would "Fight for New York".
Def Jam Records
This song that was released in 2019 spent 11 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 & led this artist to a "Best New Artist" Grammy nomination.
The Box - Roddy Ricch
This East Coast - West Coast rivalry peaked when a rapper made references to several members of an opposing label. In the song it discusses the subject of an unfaithful wife, sickle cell diagnoses, even warning the members to grab a weapon when they see him.
Hit 'Em Up by 2Pac & Outlawz
Born in Detroit and raised in a musical family, she first gained attention as a member of the funk band Chapter 8 before launching a solo career that would define an era of romantic R&B.
Anita Baker
N.Y. State of Mind
It Aint Hard to Tell
The Genesis
Illmatic - NAS