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...“When the music stopped, people got caught with their pants down,” Dezer recalled. He was talking about himself. Dezer had 1,200 Trump-branded units on the books....
...Jay-Z has further tasks to occupy him, apart from his own music. He still heads Roc Nation, a music and sports talent agency that includes Rihanna among its clients....
...Rick Ross Black Market (Def Jam/Maybach Music) “Positivity is all I got to give,” Rick Ross raps, to general bemusement....
...Ross is one of rap’s top players, a best-selling performer who also runs his own label, Maybach Music. His success results more from old-fashioned American determination than talent....
...A select tier of black stars at the top masks a corporate takeover of the music. “Rap music was an independent music,” he says. Now, he believes, it is “white-owned and blackfronted”....
...But the depth of the economic crisis makes the stars’ endorsements of Maybach cars and $300 bottles of Armand de Brignac champagne seem particularly jarring....
...You can tune into Radio Shanson, named after a style of folk music devoted to ballads about prison life, which is currently Moscow’s second most popular station....
...His success led Billboard, the US music magazine, to name him the most successful British music manager in history, ahead of the Beatles’ Brian Epstein....
...The first Russian ever to buy a Maybach and an SLR Mercedes McLaren, the bachelor is as well known for his playboy lifestyle as for his banking sense. Biggest Turnaround Joanne “J.K.”...
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