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Introducing Louder Than A Riot

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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How to Get Back Into the Music Industry

By 1983, just two years after the Big S&L debut, the funky 4 plus 1 had split up. Shout was struggling to even see a dime of her royalties. At the time, she couldn't figure out why, because she thought her label ball, Sylvia Robinson, had her back. Black musicians have been getting robbed by the record industry since the beginning of time. It hits different when the label owner stealing your money is family.

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