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Sleepy Brown: Smooth Operator

Michael A. Gonzales, Vibe, June 2000

IT'S 7:30 a.m., but Patrick "Sleepy" Brown is full of energy as he promotes his solo debut, For the Grown and Sexy, on New York radio station Power 105.1. "So, this is not a record for gun toters?" asks radio personality Ed Lover. "No," Brown says with a laugh. "I wanted to make music that was sophisticated."

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