The link works
Industry rule 4,080
The record business has always been a pimp/hoe business so to speak. The hoe does all of the work, but the pimp takes home most of the money and tosses a few pennies at the hoe.
If the hoe complains or tries to buck the established system then the hoe is blackballed, the pimp finds a new hoe. Wash, rinse, repeat
Soul for real on how they fell out with heavy D and got blackballed in the business