Re: Andre Harrell :Audi!!!!

people (enjoy@hypercon.com)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 23:45:29 -0500


At 10:35 PM 8/12/97 -0400, kevin kiernan wrote:

"who feels it knows it"
-bob marley
it works for puffy, i guess andre didn't feel it enough
to know better.....

but 0 sales?

re: lisa cortez, what's the status of her lawsuit?

>people wrote:
>>
>> "judge not before you....
>>
>> are so sure you have credible info as to the reasons
>> why "Andre Harrel got kicked to the curb..."
>> why you don't understand what he did for 2 years?
>
>spent 10's of millions of dollars. generated 0 sales. signed 0
>significant artists.
>
>> why he took out those ads?
>
>yeah, ego had nothing to do with those. he must have lost the battle
>and been forced to mack out in that chair with the cigar dangling from
>his fingers. right.
>
>> what motown's needs were
>
>sales and/or decent artists.
>
>> and what solutions they were seeking...
>
>tanqueray?
>
>> At 12:51 PM 8/12/97 PDT, mark givens wrote:
>
>> >Disgusting! He acted just like a Rapper with his first royalty check.
>
>i doubt that as dr. jekyl, of dr. jekyl & mr. hyde (genius of love)
>fame, harrell ever actually collected a royalty check beyond his initial
>advance. there are almost no recouped artists who actually receive
>royalty checks.
>
>> > how did he ever have success at uptown
>> >was it all Puff daddy and the good luck to find a young Teddy Riley?
>
>uptown started losing big money as soon as puffy left. i'm no puffy
>fan, despite having been a regular at daddy's house at the red zone back
>in the day, but he was definitely the force behind uptown.
>
>a much better question, why did lisa cortez get blown out of loose
>cannon records, also a polygram label? she lost much less than andre,
>but was blown out faster. sexism? racism? bottomlinism?
>
>-grumpy kev
>