Def Jam Exec Vice President Shakir Stewart Dead From Suicide

Def Jam Executive Vice President Shakir Suicide has committed suicide. Not a lot of details on this story yet, but his wife discovered the body earlier today after Shakir shot himself. His body was found in his New York apartment.The Def Jam VP Shakir Stewart replaced Jay-Z at Island Def Jam records and was just named to that position in June of this year. In addition, he also retained his duties as senior VP of A&R at Island Def Jam.

Shakir Stewart was responsible for signing such artists as Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and newcomer Karina Pasian. He started out as a music executive at Hitco Music Publishing where he was the creative director who later became the senior VP of creative/GM who brought in Ciara and Beyonce.Def Jam Recordings a hip-hop record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Def Jam Music Group in the United States. No details have surfaced on why Shakir Stewart would want to commit suicide.

The busy music exec was the man behind the successive no# 1 hits in Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart as Destiny Child’s “Survivor”, Outkast’s “The Way You Move”, both Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love”, and “Baby Boy” and assembling and organizing Usher’s massive hit “Yeah” on the twelve time platinum album Confessions. Shakir Stewart's career was on the move upward, and no one could see any hint of emotional troubles that would have led to a suicide.