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Cold Chillin' Records | |
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Parent company | Traffic Entertainment |
Founded | 1986 |
Defunct | 1998[1] |
Status | Defunct |
Distributor(s) | Warner Bros. Records (1988–1993) Epic Street (1995–1997) |
Genre | Hip hop Contemporary R&B |
Country of origin | United States |
Location | New York City, New York |
Cold Chillin' Records was a record label that released music during the golden age of hip hop from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.[2] A producer-and-crew label founded by manager Tyrone Williams[2] and run by Len Fichtelberg (d. November 4, 2010), most of the label's releases were by members of the Juice Crew, a loosely knit group of artists centered on producer Marley Marl. In 1998, the label shut down, and the majority of its expansive catalog was bought by Massachusetts-based LandSpeed Records (now Traffic Entertainment).