Def Jam with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

A pair of multimillionaire media moguls who built a hip-hop empire out of an NYU dorm room reminisce at this talk. Russell Simmons, who runs his own entertainment company (Rush Communications), and Rick Rubin, who heads Columbia Records, will speak about those influential early years when they helped launch the careers of Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J. The period has been documented in the new oral-history book, Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label.