Ryan Leslie
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The road was not easy, as anyone who has tried to make it in music would understand. When he graduated from Harvard in 1998, Ryan started out selling beats for $200 to anyone who would buy - a questionable career move for an ivy-league graduate. He stayed in the Boston area for a while, taking on a community service job to make ends meet, and spending his nights in the recording studio. Eventually, in the summer of 2000, he linked with a young artist named Corey “Latif” Williams, and he produced a song that won a contest sponsored by Teen People magazine, earning them a performance at the famed Apollo theatre in Harlem.
A few months later, in 2001, the two had generated enough buzz as a producer/artist duo to score Latif a record deal with Motown. Though initial excitement in the project was strong, the album they made together in thirty days took two years to get released. In the meantime, Ryan returned to a suburb of Boston and began to experiment with making his own records again.
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How It Was Supposed To Be
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Used to Be
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You Need Somebody
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Spendin' the Night
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Just Right (Radio Edit)
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Diamond Girl (Main)
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Addiction (Main)
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RAW Rhythm Festival 2009
Gashouder, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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