L.A. Reid
American executive and former CEO of Arista RecordsWikipedia
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Sep 18, 2026
Diallo RiddleHOST
He's immediately blown away.
Diallo RiddleHOST
He tells L.A. Reid, "We have to sign her." In fact, he told the employees [laughs] at Def Jam, "Do not let her leave the building-"
Blake "LUXXURY" RobinHOST
Oh, right, without a contract? [laughs]
Diallo RiddleHOST
"... until we have a contract."
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Blake "LUXXURY" RobinHOST
She's like, if they can get her to sing it, it's a smash.
Diallo RiddleHOST
Yeah.
Blake "LUXXURY" RobinHOST
Uh, but the same day, they also sent the demo to L.A. Reid at Def Jam, who had an, two albums in but still kind of up-and-coming artist in Rihanna.
Diallo RiddleHOST
Uh-huh.
Kelly AlexanderHOST
And he said at one point when that, you know, project was coming together, um, I think it was LA read or something.
Kelly AlexanderHOST
Uh, I think he said L.A. Reid, where they were talking about, like, could you do better than Always Be My Baby, which came out in 96, right? And he said no.
Kelly AlexanderHOST
He actually said he's like, no, he's like, I don't think we can do better than Always Be My Baby.
Kelly AlexanderHOST
He's like, I think we can try to match it.
Michael MuseHOST
Pink is the same doll who came out with black music and then immediately switched, put it in her song that L.A. Reid made her do that type of music.
Michael MuseHOST
After she had tried to swindle us in thinking she grew up singing in a black church, she only had black friends, she be on the block.
Michael MuseHOST
She didn't ever say
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speaker_2UNKNOWN
she reposts it.
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I ain't trusted that lady in a long time.
Michael MuseHOST
Pink is the same doll who came out with black music and then immediately switched, put it in her song that L.A. Reid made her do that type of music.
Michael MuseHOST
After she had tried to swindle us in thinking she grew up singing in a black church, she only had black friends, she'd be on the block.
Michael MuseHOST
She didn't ever
LanellHOST
Okay.
LanellHOST
So, Clive Davis helps Babyface and L.A. Reid get their shit going.
LanellHOST
They sign, among a lot of people, TLC.
LanellHOST
Okay.
SukaliHOST
Right.
SukaliHOST
And somehow L.A. Reid made her black to us and she had bangers.
SukaliHOST
Took me a very long time to realise that.
SukaliHOST
Obviously.
Sloan HooksHOST
He was originally discovered at the age of 12 by Scooter Braun and then was sent off to Usher.
Sloan HooksHOST
His big break actually came when Usher brought Justin Bieber to L.A. Reid as a gift when he was a beautiful 14-year-old boy.
Sloan HooksHOST
That's what L.A. Reid wrote in his own words in his 2016 memoir.
L.A. ReidSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14-year-old Justin Bieber walks into my office as a gift from Usher, who called a few minutes before and said, hey, I'm coming to your office at 3 o'clock.
L.A. ReidSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I have a very special gift for you.
Sloan HooksHOST
Like, can we pause and just reflect on that?
L.A. ReidSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Right? Are you serious? And that day, we made a deal to sign Justin Bieber also.
Sloan HooksHOST
One year on from being signed to Island Records by L.A. Reid, Justin then spent his 48-hour period with Diddy, the one that was posted about on Facebook, where they went full buck crazy.
JoJoGUEST
That was Whitney Houston's first writing credit.
JoJoGUEST
They were in the studio, so it was co-written with L.A. Reid, Babyface and Daryl Simmons.
JoJoGUEST
And they were struggling in the studio she went in um and she got her first writing credit for that particular track and i love that track queen of the night
JustinHOST
you know
Troy McEadyHOST
She was, had microbraids and a black set, and was like, would not say what race she was.
Troy McEadyHOST
And then she tries to say that L.A. Reid told her to pretend she was Black, and it's like no girl, you were already doing that, and then he found you that way, and then you rewrote your own history.
Troy McEadyHOST
Like, she's just a fraud.
Kelli WilliamsHOST
Yeah.
Jon Salvatore MackeyHOST
We can pull receipts up.
Jon Salvatore MackeyHOST
You were in an R&B group that auditioned for L.A. Reid.
Jon Salvatore MackeyHOST
There are clips of you online in the early parts of your career that Where you joked about potentially being biracial and you talked about having an affinity for R&B music.
Jon Salvatore MackeyHOST
And she wouldn't be the first, she's not the last to ride the urban wave to pivot and alley-oop that into doing...
DavidHOST
So this song is interesting.
DavidHOST
We covered it before, but she actually had L.A. Reid and Babyface write this song for her because she was accused on her first two albums of not sounding black enough, whatever that means, by black critics.
DavidHOST
And so she wanted to bring them in for a more urban sound.
DavidHOST
So they they did a little new jack swing with with her.
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