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Platinum Pied Pipers — manufacturers/music artists Waajeed (among Slum Village’s founders) and Saadiq (students of Motown heavyweight songwriter Barrett Strong) — debuted on Ubiquity’s second Rewind! compilation in 2002. Though they protected Faze-O’s “Operating Great” and Bobby Caldwell’s “Open up Your Eye,” they managed to get evident in early stages …

Inventive, genre-defying maker Waajeed was slice from your same cloth of Detroit’s soul-driven hip-hop underground as its main representative, Jay Dee (aka Dilla). In the end, Waajeed — given birth to Robert O’Bryant IV in Detroit in 1975 — and Jay Dee both was raised in Detroit’s Conant Landscapes neighborhood. …