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Ruff Ryders is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Puff Daddy, Irv Gotti and Juvenile. Those roots explain a lot about how Ruff Ryders arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jadakiss, The Lox, DMX, Black Rob and Fabolous, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Loose, MC Jin, Swizz Beatz, Cassidy and Broke with Expensive Taste, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Ruff Ryders, reaching back through Puff Daddy and forward to Loose. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Ruff Ryders Entertainment is an American hip-hop record label and management company founded by siblings and record executives Joaquin "Waah", Darrin "Dee" and Chivon Dean in 1988. It operated as a subsidiary of Universal, and distributed by Interscope Records, with Def Jam Recordings serving as the distributor for DMX albums. The label went on to launch the careers of several successful artists such as their flagship artist DMX, Eve, The LOX, Drag-On, MC Jin, producers Dame Grease and the Deans' nephew, Swizz Beatz among others. The Ruff Ryders namesake also referred to a loose-knit hip-hop collective composed of the core signees of the label. Ruff Ryders and its main studio Powerhouse Studios are headquartered at 33 South Broadway in Yonkers, New York.
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Ruff Ryders connections
Ruff Ryders grew out of Puff Daddy, Irv Gotti and Juvenile, shares an orbit with Jadakiss, The Lox, DMX and Black Rob, went on to shape Loose, MC Jin, Swizz Beatz and Cassidy. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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