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How Wu-Tang Clan Convinced a Record Label to Let 9 Rappers Sign With Rival Labels

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Wu-Tang Clan took hip-hop by storm in the early 90s. When you have a record like “Protect Ya Neck” just sitting around, you were bound to be a massive force in the culture. Moreover, whatever label ended up signing them would’ve ended up having a goldmine of talented artists on their roster.

But RZA had other ideas. Why only take one source of income when you can have several? Why let one company have all the fun when you can extract so much more? This was the vision he had for Wu-Tang Clan: one label will have their work as a group, while other labels would have them as individual artists. Meanwhile, they’d always come together to work on projects with each other. In a sense, labels all had........

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