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Motown legacy was an outlet for aspiring young blacks from the Detroit area and the person held accountable for excellency in Black entrepreneurship is Berry Gordy Jr.** With consistent under-representation of Blacks in the music industry Gordy Jr. made it his goal to change what that meant for the Black community. With the belief of a lack in class and sophistication, Motown was used to counteract this false belief by keeping in mind the audiences black entertainers were representing themselves while maintaining their roots. Motown had its own slogan that represented two aspects of Motown records the slogan is known as "The Sound of Young America" which at the time was prevalent to the personnel of the company along with the buying rate of Motown's records which was predominantly young Americans.