{"id":807341,"date":"2020-05-11T21:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T03:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=997890"},"modified":"2020-05-11T21:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T03:31:51","slug":"diddy-i-cant-even-imagine-life-without-andre-harrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/diddy-i-cant-even-imagine-life-without-andre-harrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddy: \u2018I Can\u2019t Even Imagine Life Without\u2019 Andre Harrell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sean \u201cDiddy<\/a>\u201d Combs penned an emotional tribute to Andre Harrell<\/a>, the music executive and Uptown Records founder who died<\/a> Thursday from heart failure at age 59.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly still can\u2019t believe it,\u201d Combs wrote on Instagram<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve got to give myself the reality of this in doses. Because I can\u2019t even handle this. I hope to God that you are all blessed to have someone in your life that loves you and believes in you like this man believed in me.\u2026 I\u2019m going to miss him so much. I can\u2019t even imagine life without Dre.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bad Boy Records founder also sent condolences to Harrell\u2019s family, including son Gianni and cousin O\u2019Neal McKnight, adding, \u201cLOVE YOU FOREVER DRE!!!!!!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Harrell entered the music industry as a member of Eighties hip-hop duo Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde before becoming an executive. He first worked under Russell Simmons at Def Jam Records before establishing his own label, Uptown, which helped launch the careers of Heavy D and the Boyz, Jodeci and Mary J. Blige, among many others.<\/p>\n

Combs worked as an intern at the company before stepping into an A&R role during the Nineties. After being fired from the label in 1993, the rapper\/producer went on to found Bad Boy and, two decades later, hired Harrell as vice chairman of his Revolt music network.<\/p>\n

In his Instagram post, Combs also linked a video tribute documenting his January speech<\/a> accepting the Industry Icon Award<\/a> at the Clive Davis\u2019 pre-Grammy gala. \u201cI want to take the time to thank Andre for being a big brother, for believing in me,\u201d he says in the clip. \u201cDre, I\u2019m only standing up here because you gave me the chance. You gave me the opportunity \u2026 I call you my big brother, but tonight I gotta tell you the truth. I told you my father died when I was two-and-a-half. Andre, you\u2019ve been my father for the last 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs penned an emotional tribute to Andre Harrell, the music executive and Uptown Records founder who died Thursday from heart failure at age 59. \u201cI honestly still can\u2019t believe it,\u201d Combs wrote on Instagram. \u201cI\u2019ve got to give myself the reality of this in doses. Because I can\u2019t even handle this. I hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 09:12:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}