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    How Uptown Records Founder Andre Harrell Sharpened Changed Hip-Hop (Guest Blog)

    By Johnnie L. Roberts | May 11, 2020 @ 3:48 PM

    Andre was on the cutting edge of hip-hop or sharpening it even as the music industry first dismissed the nascent cultural force

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Johnnie L. Roberts

Johnnie L. Roberts has covered the media and entertainment industries for two decades for outlets like Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal and TheWrap .He is the author/editor of "The Big Book of Business Quotations: Over 1,400 of the Smartest Things Ever Said about Making Money" (Skyhorse Publishing, 2016). Roberts, who lives with his family in Williamsburg, Virginia, currently is writing a memoir.
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