Wikipedia’s UMA.com

• UMA.com (Urban Music Awards) is a psuedo music awards website awarding influential black artist of the 21st century. Each nominee is recognized for their ability to focus on the production of artistic music with positive vibes overall. These artists are able to stay true to themselves as artists, before business people, yet somehow maintain mass appeal and heavy airplay on TV and radio stations. The following are trend setters who have helped with the advancement of urban music since 2000 till now who weren't nessarily focused on apealing to the music industry.
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