Owner Chill Studio. Owner Chill Records. Along with Ruthless Records, Death Row Records, and Rap-a-Lot Records, Cold Chillin' Records is widely respected for serious contributions to hip hop music during its formative years. CHILL RECORDS INC.'s profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates. Jun 1989 – Present 30 years 6 months. Polo's third album, Live And Let Die, was rejected by Warner Bros. on behalf of parent company Time Warner because of the anti-gangsta and anti-Time Warner sentiments that followed in the footsteps of the Cop Killer controversy involving hip hop artist Ice-T, Cold Chillin' opted to distribute the album independently, and, as such, it did so with various projects throughout the remaining years of activity, including its short-lived distribution deal with the Epic Street division of Epic Records, which released two albums by the label: the second album by Grand Daddy I.U. Albums marked with (*) were distributed by Epic Street. Initially, Cold Chillin’ was a subsidiary of Prism Records, but label head Tyrone Williams and Fichtelberg decided to merge their companies, and Prism was absorbed by Cold Chillin’. Create, perform and record music. Jan 1994 – Present 25 years 11 months. In 1988, it signed a five-year distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records, which remained intact for its full duration. In 2006, LandSpeed started releasing new versions of the classic albums in Cold Chillin’s’ catalog with their original artwork intact. Albums marked with (§) were on sub-label Livin’ Large and distributed by Tommy Boy Records, Learn how and when to remove this template message, In Control, Volume 2: For Your Steering Pleasure, "Hip Hop around the World: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold_Chillin%27_Records&oldid=961180372, Articles needing additional references from November 2019, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 June 2020, at 01:40. Chill [l332047] Label . After it closed down in 1998, rights of the Cold Chillin' catalogue were purchased by Massachusetts-based LandSpeed Records, now known as Traffic Entertainment Group. 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. Sublabel . 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