LOS ANGELES, CA – Russell Simmons, a pioneering voice in Hip Hop as a co-founder of Def Jam Records, has partnered with a Grammy Award-winning production company to produce a new docuseries. The Definitive History of Hip Hop will examine the rise of Hip Hop music in culture from its beginnings in the 1970s to the global impact it has today.

Simmons’ All Def Digital will work alongside Stephen David Entertainment and GroupM Entertainment in developing The Definitive History of Hop Hop series. The announcement of the venture was made on Sunday from Los Angeles.

As stated in the press release for the series, Simmons and his partners aim to showcase how Hip Hop’s start in the New York boroughs of the Bronx and Queens came from a need for expression and how influential the culture became in relatively short time.

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