While sitting with the Roc Nation team at the label’s headquarters in Midtown, Manhattan, Roc Nation’s Distribution President Krystian Santini says the company’s groundbreaking new Dashboard came together after Jay-Z personally called a meeting last year.

“Jay-Z himself took us into an all-staff meeting and said, ‘We’re here to hand over the keys. It took us 25 years; we want the next person to take 10,'” Santini tells Billboard. “So we’re essentially handing over all the tools as best as we can to give artists that edge because, what we’ve seen, everything has opened up. Yet there are still haves and have-nots. There’s no blueprint to get to a certain point of viability where things get easier. There’s a lot of people spending a lot of money and not finding any traction.”

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