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Music Mogul: L.A. Reid

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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In 1991, LaFace records had a major failure with one of its first bands. The label decided to try and recover by producing a soundtrack for a big Hollywood film. To do this, LA called out a friend of mine who was working in the music industry. She told him how to get his band Eddie Murphy to work on it. In a minute, we'll find out how LA found that movie.

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