Def Jam Promotes Nicki Farag to Executive VP and General Manager

More than three years after its last installment, Season 4 of Noah Hawley’s anthology series Fargo bowed in September on FX and moved the action to 1950s Kansas City. That’s where we meet Chris Rock’s Loy Cannon and Jason Schwartzman’s Josto Fadda, a pair of gangland kingpins who square off across racial and family divides.

Antonio Ferme editorWhile the famous opening text in “Fargo” states that the story of the film was based on true events, it turns out that the Coen brothers only included this fraudulent message to subvert the audience’s expectations.“It occurred to us that if an audience thinks that the template that you’re following are actual events, they actually give you more latitude to construct it in an unorthodox way,” Joel Coen said.Coen participated in a Q&A conversation with his wife and star of

Jake Bongiovi, 19, may be used to making headlines for being Jon Bon Jovi‘s son, but he’s doing so for a different reason this time. The hunk seemingly confirmed a romance with Millie Bobby Brown, 17, when the duo held hands during an outing in the Big Apple on June 17. He and the Stranger Things star were dressed in summer-friendly clothing and appeared relaxed and comfortable together as they brought along an adorable pooch in a tote bag.

Frances McDormand gets in the middle of a pic with Steve Buscemi and Joel Coen at the Fargo reunion during the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival on Friday (June 18) in New York City.

Christy Tanner, the executive vice president and general manager of CBS News Digital, is leaving the network, after playing a central role in the expansion of the division’s streaming service CBSN.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn what is described as a major tactical restructuring of the national and regional staffs of the Epic Records Urban Promotion Department, Cynthia Johnson and Cory “Sparks” Johnson have been promoted to Vice Presidents of Urban Promotion, it was announced today by the company’s EVP of promotion, Traci Adams, to whom both will report.According to the announcement, in their new positions, the two will devise and execute Urban Radio promotion campaigns to obtain

Bob Verini The settings and scope of “Fargo’s” fourth installment are as variegated as America itself — something the show’s design team relished taking into account.Of course, the “Fargo” brand is intimately associated with snow, courtesy of the 1996 Coen brothers’ movie from which the television version was spun off. Costume designer J.R.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley lives and works in Austin, Texas, so even before the COVID-19 pandemic pushed people to work from home, he was already doing that.

Haley Bosselman editor“Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. Chu sees his error in casting brown actors in subservient roles.While promoting his new film “In the Heights,” Chu told Insider that he should have made the South Asian characters in “Crazy Rich Asians” “more human” and that he “totally gets” the criticism.The 2018 rom-com hit centers on the relationship between Chinese American professor Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) and history professor Nick Young (Henry Golding).

Deb Never has announced details around her forthcoming EP, ‘Where Have All The Flowers Gone?’.Alongside the EP’s announcement, Deb Never has unveiled the record’s latest single ‘Disassociate’.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOne of the great perks of working as an entertainment writer is the weird promotional stuff you get in the mail — cool things intended to amplify buzz around a project that can’t really be elaborate or useful enough to qualify as payola.

Def Jam has hired Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr as a senior strategic consultant, focussing on A&R and creative development across the label’s roster. And why the hell not? You probably know Calvin better, by the way, as Snoop Dogg.For a while, a few years ago, it was fashionable for brands to give celebrities job titles with the word ‘creative’ in them in a futile bid to look cool.

Snoop Dogg has been appointed by Def Jam Recordings to be their new Executive Creative and Strategic Consultant.The rapper will now work closely with the label, whose signed artists include Kanye West, Justin Bieber and Jhené Aiko.Snoop’s new role will see him “strategically working across the label’s executive team and artist roster with an immediate focus on A&R and creative development,” according to a press release.The role is based in LA, and Snoop will report to Universal Music Group

Snoop Dogg is getting ready to bark out orders at Def Jam Recordings — he's joining the label as an executive creative and strategic consultant. Def Jam announced Monday that newly created role for the iconic rapper "will allow (Snoop) to strategically work across the label’s executive team and artist roster." Acts signed to the label include Kanye West, Nas, Justin Bieber, Big Sean, Logic, Jadakiss, 2 Chainz, Jeezy, Jhené Aiko, Bobby Sessions and late rapper DMX.

NEW YORK -- Snoop Dogg is getting ready to bark out orders at Def Jam Recordings — he's joining the label as an executive creative and strategic consultant.Def Jam announced Monday that newly created role for the iconic rapper “will allow (Snoop) to strategically work across the label’s executive team and artist roster." Acts signed to the label include Kanye West, Nas, Justin Bieber, Big Sean, Logic, Jadakiss, 2 Chainz, Jeezy, Jhené Aiko, Bobby Sessions and late rapper DMX.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLegendary rapper Snoop Dogg has joined Def Jam Recordings as executive creative and strategic consultant, “a new role that will allow him to strategically work across the label’s executive team and artist roster,” according to the announcement.

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