Andre Harrell's Uptown Records became a guiding light for hip-hop culture in the 1980s and '90s. 'If there was no Andre Harrell, God rest his soul, there would be no Sean Combs. There would be no Jay-Z.'
In a lot of ways what Andre did — and he's unheralded for — he revived R&B. He revived R&B music. And a lot of people don't give him the credit for that. They give it to Teddy Riley of course, but Andre is the mastermind behind that."Let's take these hip-hop beats and Puff, let's go and do 'Real Love.' Put Mary [J. Blige] in a hockey jersey and a baseball cap and the Doc Martens, the tennis gear." These are the girls we grew up with.
He charted Puff's course, for sure. Puff took it to another level, but he took it to another level, but he learned at the foot of Andre Harrell. He learned everything from him: Marketing, production, music, image, ideology, mindset."Be better than who you are." Puff learned that from Andre. He learned how to find a model, find an idea, and build it out. Build that platform out and make it real and create a construct that everybody could relate to.
If there was no Andre Harrell, God rest his soul, there would be no Sean Combs. There would be no Jay-Z. There would be no Ruff Ryders. There would be no Murder, Inc. There would be none of that, because he led the way.Uptown Records was your one stop shop for aspiration, inspiration, fashion, music, culture and identity. It gave kids and young adults like myself an identity during that time.
To me, looking back at Andre, it was always bigger than the music. It was about the culture. It was like an extension of Martin Luther King's"I Have A Dream." It was like an extension of Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz:"By Any Means Necessary." NPR's Kira Wakeam and Tinbete Ermyas produced and edited the audio of this interview. Cyrena Touros and editorial intern Jon Lewis adapted it for the Web.
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