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Steve Rifkind Part 1

The Questlove Show

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The Mob Era of the Record Business

I think once everything started getting corporate, like when Vegas came and the major corporations started getting buying the hotels. I think that's when all that shit just got cut to the wayside. For radio people, it sucked for mixed DJs up until the arts because although corporate took over radio mixed DJs could still do they little wiggle wiggle wiggles. But then in my era, it was a ceiling for people of color to be in executive positions and to make decisions and stuff like that.

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