Watts, a black, and Jay Kim, a Korean-American.

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Thirteen years later, Vee-Jay Records became the country's biggest independent, black-owned record label, and for a time, it was bigger than Motown.

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He needs the support of his industry and peers (particularly the elder statesmen like Diddy and Jay-Z who set the tone for being successful black males in music) in his pursuit of recovery.

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