Def Jam Executive Rich Isaacson Departs Label

Rich Isaacson is leaving Def Jam, the longtime exec announced in an internal memo obtained by Billboard. The Loud Records co-founder, who has been executive vp and general manager of the iconic hip-hop label since coming on board alongside then-chairman/CEO Paul Rosenberg in January 2018, said his last day was May 28.
“The company,” he wrote, “is going in a new direction, and it is time for me to move on.”
Isaacson, who co-founded Loud alongside Steve Rifkind in 1991, was