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Borne in 1987 out of founder J. Prince's used car lot as a way to keep his little brother off the street, the label quickly grew into a pillar of the Houston hip-hop community. Prince was the entrepreneur at the heart of the enterprise, assembling its …
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Louis hoping that grime pays
… and the debut single from Tre Mission, a Canadian rapper, which raced into the Top 20 in the iTunes Hip Hop chart. Now the teenager, of Bramble Close, Yaxley, near Peterborough, is planning big things for the record label's future.
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Abingdon drug sentence for leader of crack cocaine ring is thrown out
Kant Stop was a Tennessee hip-hop record label that federal authorities said was linked to a three-state crack cocaine trafficking operation. In 2008, Evans and 50 others were charged with distributing drugs in Southwest Virginia, northeast Tennessee …
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