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variety.comBy Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Andre Harrell, the veteran music executive who died on May 7 of heart failure at the age of 59, played an enormous role in creating the world-changing culture that hip-hop is today — and, by extension, all R&B, urban and pop music.
Over the course of his 30-plus year career, and particularly during the golden era of his Uptown Records, Harrell helped bring upward mobility to hip-hop, launching the careers of Mary J.
Blige, Jodeci and New Jack Swing titans like Guy and Heavy D, but also Sean (a.k.a. “Puff Daddy” and “Diddy”) Combs, with whom he worked for many years, most recently at the Revolt network, and as political activists, on both President Obama’s campaign and more recently, in the run-up to the
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