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This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

I'm not sure a lot of companies know their story, or can explain why they exist and who they are, without just spewing just corporate speech.

I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.