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Uptown Records

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Uptown Records was an American record label, founded by Andre Harrell in 1986. [1]

65 relations: Al B. Sure!, Andre Harrell, Bad Boy Records, Big Tyme, Billboard Hot 100, Candy Rain (album), Christopher Williams (singer), Compilation album, Contemporary R&B, Death Row Records, Diary of a Mad Band, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde (group), Father MC, Flaw (band), Fox Broadcasting Company, Gangsta rap, Guy (album), Guy (band), Heavy D, Hip hop music, Horace Brown (musician), In Effect Mode, Jeff Redd, Jodeci, Key West, Lately (Stevie Wonder song), Living Large, Los Angeles, Lost Boyz, Marley Marl, Mary J. Blige, MCA Records, McGruff (rapper), Monifah, Motown, MTV Unplugged, Music recording certification, My Life (Mary J. Blige album), New jack swing, New York Undercover, Nuttin' but Love, Peaceful Journey, Record label, Rhythm and blues, Sean Combs, Shawn Pen, Soul for Real, Stevie Wonder, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Strictly Business (1991 film), ..., Strictly Business (soundtrack), Suge Knight, Teddy Riley, Terri & Monica, The Future (Guy album), The Notorious B.I.G., The Show, the After Party, the Hotel, Trouble T Roy, Universal Music Group, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Records, What's the 411?, Who's the Man?, Who's the Man? (soundtrack), You Remind Me. Expand index (15 more) »

Al B. Sure!

Albert Joseph Brown III (born June 4, 1968) is a three-time Grammy-nominated American R&B record producer, radio host, recording artist and actor.

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Andre Harrell

Andre Harrell (born September 26, 1960 in The Bronx, New York) is the founder of the record label, Uptown Records.

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Bad Boy Records

Bad Boy Records (also known as Bad Boy Entertainment) is an American record label founded in 1993 by Sean Combs.

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Big Tyme

Big Tyme is the second album by American hip hop group Heavy D & the Boyz.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Candy Rain (album)

Candy Rain is the debut studio album from American R&B group Soul for Real, released March 28, 1995 on Uptown Records and distributed through MCA Records.

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Christopher Williams (singer)

Troy Christopher Williams (born August 22, 1967) is an American singer–songwriter and actor.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Death Row Records

Death Row Records (formerly Future Shock Entertainment and Tha Row Records) was an American record label founded in 1991 by Suge Knight, The D.O.C, and Dr. Dre.

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Diary of a Mad Band

Diary of a Mad Band is the second studio album from American R&B group Jodeci, released on December 21, 1993 on Uptown Records and distributed through MCA Records.

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Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde (group)

Dr.

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Father MC

Father MC (born Timothy Brown) is an American rapper.

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Flaw (band)

Flaw is an American rock band from Louisville, Kentucky.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Gangsta rap

Gangsta rap or Gangster rap is a style of hip hop characterized by themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle.

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Guy (album)

Guy is the 1988 eponymous debut studio album by American R&B band Guy.

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Guy (band)

Guy is an American hip hop, R&B and soul band, and were the creators of the new jack swing style of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Heavy D

Dwight Errington MyersCuda, Heidi Sigmund Keeping it reel.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Horace Brown (musician)

Horace Brown is an American R&B singer, who was born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States and is the son of a Apostolic minister.

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In Effect Mode

In Effect Mode is the debut album by Al B. Sure!.

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Jeff Redd

Jeff Redd is an American singer who performed new jack swing-style R&B music in the 1990s.

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Jodeci

Jodeci is an American R&B quartet with members DeVante Swing, Mr. Dalvin, K-Ci, and JoJo.

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Key West

Key West (Cayo Hueso) is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States.

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Lately (Stevie Wonder song)

"Lately" is a song by American singer Stevie Wonder recorded for his album Hotter than July (1980).

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Living Large

Living Large is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Heavy D & the Boyz.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Lost Boyz

Lost Boyz is a hip hop group from South Jamaica, Queens, New York City.

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Marley Marl

Marlon Williams (born September 30, 1962), better known by his stage name Marley Marl, is an American DJ, record producer, rapper and record label founder, primarily operating in hip hop music.

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Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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McGruff (rapper)

Herbert Brown, better known by his stage name McGruff (also known as Herb McGruff) is an American Hip hop recording artist from Harlem, New York City, New York.

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Monifah

Monifah (born Monifa Carter; January 28, 1972 in Manhattan, New York) is an American R&B singer-songwriter.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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MTV Unplugged

MTV Unplugged was an American television series on MTV showcasing musical artists usually playing acoustic instruments.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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My Life (Mary J. Blige album)

My Life is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist Mary J. Blige, released on November 29, 1994, by Uptown Records.

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New jack swing

New jack swing or swingbeatSilverton, Peter.

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New York Undercover

New York Undercover was an American police drama that aired on the FOX television network from September 8, 1994, to June 25, 1998.

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Nuttin' but Love

Nuttin' but Love is the fifth and final studio album by rap group Heavy D & the Boyz.

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Peaceful Journey

Peaceful Journey is the third album by rap group, Heavy D & the Boyz.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Sean Combs

Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Love and Brother Love is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Shawn Pen

Tyrone Shawn Wilkins, better known as Little Shawn and Shawn Pen, is an American hip hop artist, rapper, songwriter and producer.

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Soul for Real

Soul for Real (also known as Soul 4 Real and Soul IV Real) is an R&B group from Wheatley Heights, New York, currently living in Atlanta, Georgia made up of brothers Christopher Sherman Dalyrimple a.k.a. Choc (born April 30, 1971), Andre "Dre" Lamont Dalyrimple a.k.a. KD now (born April 4, 1974), Brian "Bri" Augustus Dalyrimple (born December 14, 1975), and Jason "Jase" Oliver Dalyrimple a.k.a. Jase4Real (born May 10, 1980).

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886.

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Strictly Business (1991 film)

Strictly Business is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Tommy Davidson, Joseph C. Phillips, and Halle Berry.

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Strictly Business (soundtrack)

Strictly Business is the soundtrack to the 1991 comedy film, Strictly Business.

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Suge Knight

Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. (born April 19, 1965) is an American record producer, music executive, and a former American football player.

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Teddy Riley

Edward Theodore Riley (born October 8, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, keyboardist, and record producer credited with the creation of the new jack swing genre.

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Terri & Monica

Terri & Monica was an R&B duo from the early 1990s which featured Terri Robinson (August 12, 1970) and Monica Payne (Feb 22), who were members of the short-lived late 1980s New Jack Swing R&B group The Gyrlz along with third member Tara Geter.

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The Future (Guy album)

The Future is the second studio album by American R&B group Guy, released in November 13, 1990 on Uptown Records and MCA Records.

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The Notorious B.I.G.

Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), known professionally as The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper.

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The Show, the After Party, the Hotel

The Show, the After-Party, the Hotel is the third studio album from American R&B group Jodeci, released July 18, 1995 on Uptown Records and distributed through MCA Records.

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Trouble T Roy

Troy Dixon (October 19, 1967July 15, 1990), better known as Trouble T Roy, was a hip-hop dancer with the group Heavy D and the Boyz from 1987 until 1990.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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What's the 411?

What's the 411? is the debut album by American recording artist Mary J. Blige, released on July 28, 1992 by Uptown Records and MCA Records.

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Who's the Man?

Who's the Man? is a 1993 thriller comedy film, directed by Ted Demme, in his feature film directing debut.

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Who's the Man? (soundtrack)

Who's the Man?: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 1993 film Who's the Man?.

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You Remind Me

"You Remind Me" is a song by American singer Mary J. Blige.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown_Records

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