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This past Saturday at the Missouri History Museum, one of hip-hop’s leading marketing executives broke down artists and their relationships to record labels in numbers that don’t add up to the quick bling-bling and cha-ching glorified in videos, magazines and glamorous parties.

“Once you sign, you are already in debt to the record company,” Leota Blacknor told attendees at the Missouri Historical Society’s “Economics of Hip-Hop” program, part of its “Race, Power and Money Series.”

Blacknor is director of urban marketing at Virgin Records and former general manager of the highly successful Ruff Ryder Records.

She worked as Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ executive assistant before becoming senior director of administration at his Bad Boy Entertainment label, where she acted as liaison with Arista Records.

Blacknor was thoroughly informative.

She used a projector to outline key record label departments, sub-departments