Live a Sunday Like Lyor Cohen

The Times spends a day with the former Def Jam legend.

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Yesterday, former Def Jam and Warner Music Group executive LyorCohen was the subject of The New York Times' "Sunday Routine," a feature in which the paper spends a Sunday with one of the city's many interesting people. For Cohen—who recently founded a new content company called 300—the story centers around his move from Manhattan's Upper East Side to the West Village, where his family lives in a new townhouse.

But despite the move, Sundays in the Cohen house are like they are for millions of New Yorkers: He starts with nova and a (scooped-out!) bagel before settling in to watch the Green Bay Packers, the NFL team he adopted as a kid growing up in Los Angeles. But it's his mind-frame as he goes to sleep with the weekday approaching that perhaps best explains his towering stature in the music industry.

"I wake up every morning and the singular thought in my head is that maybe today is the day that I’m going to find an artist who is so amazing, an artist who will change pop culture," he says. "I’m in hot pursuit, always." Find more of Cohen's weekend routine here.

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