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On Wiz, Rolling Papers & Atlantic, The Label That Has It All Figured Out

On Wiz, Rolling Papers & Atlantic, The Label That Has It All Figured Out Imagine a label that’s figured it all out. Imagine the record execs sitting at a board meeting, looking at their financial numbers, in a panic over the state of the company and the music industry in general. The company's Hip-Hop sales have struggled – a waning roster thinned out by incarcerations and mental breakdowns has crushed the label’s star power. No matter how much money they pump into a Hip-Hop album, and how many fans artist A seems to garner, the label can’t seem to get numbers above 100K. [...]