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Tariq Troy Stewart on What It Takes To Be An Accomplished A&R
The Brooklyn-born A&R has signed some of this generation's top acts, lent his expertise to the likes of Chris Brown, and had a hand in placing one of Jamaica's biggest stars on DJ Khaled's "GOD DID" album
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