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Review: A powerful #MeToo chapter in ‘On the Record’ doc

by AP Film Writer
| May 28, 2020 12:03 AM

The documentary “ On the Record ” spends quite a bit of time introducing former music executive Drew Dixon before Russell Simmons and rape are mentioned. She talks about her youth, her politician mother, living down the street from Biggie, her love of hip-hop, her dream of working in music and what it meant when she got a call from Def Jam Recordings. That’s all before she even hints that something inappropriate might have transpired in her time there. And it’s even longer before you hear her account of what she says happened the night Simmons allegedly raped her.

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