Asylum Records is a Hip Hop record label founded in 1971.
By the early 1980s, although the copyright lines on albums still read "Elektra/Asylum Records" or "Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records", Elektra was becoming the more prominent of the two labels with Asylum turning into a secondary imprint
=== Country format ===Asylum was reformatted into a country music label, still operated by Elektra, in 1992

