When James Murdoch was a hip-hop mogul

I knew the troubled News International boss when he ran a cool, urban record label. It never quite felt rightBack in the mid-to-late 90s, hip-hop music was abuzz with spiky independent labels putting out material that most majors wouldn't touch or didn't get. Chief among these was Rawkus Records, founded by Brown University graduates Brian Brater and Jarret Myer . . . oh, and their friend James Murdoch.When I used to travel to New York to visit Rawkus's office, you wouldn't have known Murdoch wa...

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