BY ELIJAH C. WATSON • JUNE 27 2019

The New York Times has updated its list of artists whose work was destroyed by the fire.
Following the release of its lengthy report on the 2008 fire at Universal Studios Hollywood that resulted in the destruction of countless single and album masters, the New York Times has updated its list of artists whose material was destroyed during the incident.

The Times had previously reported that an estimated 500,000 song titles were destroyed in the fire, including music from the Roots, Quincy Jones, Eric. B and Rakim, and Snoop Dogg. Now, material from artists Busta Rhymes, Yasiin Bey, Common, and others is believed to have been lost too, their names added to an already-extensive list in a new Times report titled, “Here Are Hundreds More Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed in the UMG Fire.”

“Nevertheless, the names listed below come with several caveats. For the artists named below, it is not possible to assert definitively which masters were burned in the fire, nor can it be said categorically that all of these artists did in fact lose masters,” the Times reports. “It also cannot be determined exactly how many of the destroyed masters were primary-source originals.”

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