Much respect to you for always droppin that knowledge when it comes to Texas. And Southwest was definitely the distributor for most of the southern indies, but you are incorrect about P. Before Priority, No Limit was thru SMG (Solar Music Group) based out of California. I'm sure SMG outsourced and also sold to Southwest Wholesale and Select-O-Hits as one-stops, but P was SMG all the way just like E-40 before Jive and C-Bo/AWOL before Noo Trybe.
he was with southwest as well...trust me breh...my 1st 2 jobs were at music mania and wherehouse..
n thats how i discovered the upc hustle he was runnin..every 2 weeks raymond(mo b. dikk) and another cat useta come in to exchange "counts"..kuz i thought it was strange..that they made sure to keep tally of all the upc sales on certain albums...they come in get the count..
that wed we got a big ass southwest shipment... somebody from the label would call and say put everything out by friday...thats when we started to figure our manager was in on it too..
i remember til this day...charge it to the game had just dropped...2weeks later we already got life or death...we didnt even have c-murder's display or anything up..n we already got i got the hook up...ready
and all 3 of those albums was sellin out and they were right on top of each other..
then when it got out southwest was goin bankrupt...2000 everything no limit was to a halt...
it was like it was a priority to make sure everything no limit was on the shelf regardless of the release date...
