Balogun attended Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and graduated from Pomona College in 2004.
[1] Balogun began his career as a marketing intern at Warner Brothers Records and was hired as an assistant at the label after he graduated from college.
He later held a position in A&R at Interscope, where he worked with artists signed through Bad Boy Entertainment and Shady Records, in addition to Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Keyshia Cole, OneRepublic, and others.
At the time of his promotion, RCA announced that it had entered into a joint venture with Balogun, Courtney Stewart, Jon Tanners, and Jared Sherman to establish Keep Cool.
[5][6] He was named CEO of Def Jam in August 2021, and assumed the position in January 2022.