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Rihanna has settled with David LaChapelle after the celebrity fashion photographer sued the pop singer, her label Def Jam, and her video director Melina Matsoukas over what LaChapelle perceived as plagiarism of his work for several scenes in her raunchy video for hit single S&M.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Rihanna has settled with David LaChapelle after the celebrity fashion photographer sued the pop singer, her label Def Jam, and her video director Melina Matsoukas over what LaChapelle perceived as plagiarism of his work for several scenes in her raunchy video for hit single S&M.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

is suing the singer , her label Def Jam and her video director Melina Matsoukas for what La Chapelle perceives as plagiarism of his work for several scenes in her raunchy video for hit single S&M.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Lowering overall levels of readiness -- what we call Def Con levels -- that type of thing.

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Def Jam With Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin From 1980s roots, the record label Def Jam grew into a hip-hop powerhouse; in recent years, its many launches included Rihanna and Kanye West.

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In its day—the mid-1980s through the early 1990s—the hip-hop label Def Jam Recordings was able to pass off contrivance as authenticity.

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I would think the fact that he was not explicitly asked to stay on, such as the Sec Def, is your clue.

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"We're trying to grow new artists, get them exposure and help raise the bar for artistic work," says Mr. Simmons, co-founder of the music label Def Jam and creator of several fashion lines.

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Mike [Mos Def] is leading the African-American community, and Alma the Hispanic community, and Jack is leading the Polish community and they start to fight in a horrible fight.

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Carter is now worth an estimated $320 million, runs the seminal hip-hop label Def Jam and dates probably the hottest woman on the planet, Beyoncé Knowles.

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