Just over a year after he took the post as Def Jam Records President, Joie Manda is out. Billboard reported that Manda resigned today. With the news of leaving Def Jam, Manda announced plans to be President of Urban Music at Interscope Records, which is part of the Universal Music Group with Joie’s former home.
“Despite having to move back to Los Angeles for personal reasons, I am truly grateful to Barry [Weiss], John [Janick] and Jimmy Iovine for this exciting new opportunity,” Manda said in a statement. “I’ve learned a lot from Barry in the last year and am very appreciative of everything he has done for me. I am now looking forward to being part of the Interscope [Records] family, a company uniquely positioned for success despite this challenging marketplace.”
This move will bring Manda to a similar role which he had prior to Def Jam, as Warner Bros. Records’ head of Urban Music. In the Warner Music Group family for years as a former Executive Vice President at Asylum, Joie has been deeply involved in the signings and developing of acts such as Paul Wall, Common, and the Maybach Music Group roster. He was Def Jam’s first president since Jay-Z resigned in the final days of 2007. There, he was instrumental in signing Trinidad James.
At Interscope, Manda will work with acts such as Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q and French Montana in addition to label vets Eminem and Dr. Dre.
Russell Simmons come back to Defjam Now!!!!!!!!!
Real niggas need to run Defjam no jews or white people just people that understand true hip-hop
A white person founded def jam and they had their most success when a jew was running the label you dumb ignorant fuck
Rick Rubin & Lyor Cohen built that label with Russell so sit your simple simon dumb ass the fuck down idiot
Please do your research before you make a comment like this…..
your a dumb ass racist.
Flatbush is a dumbass rick rubin is a white guy and he founded def jam. No the facts u ignorant fuck
bring Chuck D into the mix as Def Jam president and its on.
he jumping ship because he doesnt wanna push rick ross and gunplay when he could be working with Dre, Kendrick, 50 and Em
DEF JAM IS DEAD…KANYE SHOULD JUMP SHIP TOO!!!
def jam has turned into a graveyard for artists.
Yeah Ja Rule will be the defjam president now when he gets outta jail
when ja rule gets out, he’ll run through the defjam and slice niggaz up with his shiv and then he’ll become the president of it
ja rule, the next president of defjam
ja rule got that nigga power to run defjam
ja rule is the strongest nigga in the universe capable of running defjam, when he gets outta jail, it’s on
when ja rule gets outta jail, it’s on
ja rule kills niggaz with his crutch and his shiv, he does a double attack with it and y’all niggaz fall like flies.
on the other note, niggaz gonna fear ja rule when he gets out
ja rule could be the defjam president, he knows whats up
ja rule has the biggest balls in the industry, when he hits you with those 2 mothafucka’s, you’ll be straight up knocked the fuck out
niggaz, ja rule is the truth
ja rule got that shiv swag on
niggaz, don’t say defjam’s dead, ja rule will be the president there when he gets out and he’ll smash the industry
ja rule got the biggest ballz in the industry
50 cent stan ur a fucking clown
ja rule, the epitome of realness
Word up.
ja rule’s so real these president niggaz gotta run away ’cause he’ll be out soon
I hope whoever comes in next does better quality control. At least have a Def Jam 2000 like campaign to regain the respect and market they used to have.
Ja Rule wants to turn things around at Koch.
irv gotti gotta get the job this time
If Ja Rule ran Def Jam his first order of business would be assigning Ashanti to his ruler.
First Off, WHO THE HELL ARE DOING THESE CONTACTS AT DEF JAM. Not Being a hater to Joie Manda but HOW THE HELL DID THE PRESIDENT LEAVE TO BECOME PRESIDENT SOMEWHERE ELSE
if you had a job you would know what a lateral move is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7tvkpE00bo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8px3XvpNJtU
Next Its Irv Gotti 4 President. He know the market, he knows Def Jam, and he knows urban music. But with this Joie Manda jumped shows not even a president can save a dying label. Def Jam needs to make some real power moves cuz they fumbled by not signing THE LOX when they had 2/3 of the group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7fibtRFnLs
def jam biggest mistake was making jay z president his power moves were only for his self and rhiana _ la reid is known for r&b acts def jam roster is weak there current top two artists contracts are about to be up redman needs to be released 1 album left on contract ( greatest hits) release muddy waters 2 elsewhere universal just fold def jam that label been done
When the ship is sinking, the rats are the first ones off.
Irv Gotti,Kevin Liles Or Dame Dash…
Be paid weekly and earn like a boss! I just bought a great Mazda MX-5 from having earned $7126 this past 4 weeks and $10k past-month. Without any doubt this is the easiest and most comfortable job Ive ever had. I began this 6 months ago and right away was bringing in more than $83 per/h. Heres what Ive been doing Epic2.com_
this cracker ass cracka should run for President of Haiti… can’t be a bigger crook than fucking Wyclef would have been (and is.)