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YouTube Head of Music Lyor Cohen Talks Tech-Creative Divide, Signing DMX, Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ and Who Should Run Def Jam

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Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicTo get a sense of YouTube global head of music Lyor Cohen, the person, imagine the type of brash, gruff New Yorker that might inspire a character called “record man” or “music biz exec” in a movie.

After starting his career as a roadie for Run DMC, Cohen went on to head Def Jam Records in the mid-1990s and, over the next decade grew the label that would become home to the likes of Jay-Z and DMX into a formidable force in music.

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