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Family Values in the Rap Business: Ruff Ryders, Cash Money and co.

Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 12 March 2000

WHEN THE RAPPER DMX accepted a trophy for best R&B album at the Billboard Music Awards last year, he took the stage flanked by a squad of fellow artists from the Ruff Ryders label.

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