Allido Records is a

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and production company. The company was started by DJ and producer

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and Rich Kleiman, a television, internet and music businessman. The label got its name "Allido" from the Stevie Wonder song "All I Do". Rapper Saigon was the first artist signed to Allido Records, but left soon after, and is now signed to

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's Fort Knox Entertainment. In conjunction with Clive Davis’

J Records J Records was an American record label owned and operated by Bertelsmann Music Group until it was transferred to Sony Music Entertainment when they acquired all of BMG’s record labels in late 2008. It was distributed through the RCA Music Gro ...

, Allido signed

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-based rapper Rhymefest, who is best known as the co-writer for Kanye West's ''

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''. Rhymefest's first album, under Allido, was released July 11, 2006, under the title of ''

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''. Allido has also signed Australian-born soul singer

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. Other projects in the works from Ronson and Kleiman are the soundtrack to Gap's latest ad campaign as well as Jay-Z's movie, '' Fade to Black''. Allido's most recent signing is Washington, D.C. hip hop artist Wale. The label was distributed by

prior to J's dissolution in 2011, in which Allido became an independent label.

Artists

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* Wale

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