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Her 13-year journey from LaFace Records intern to one of the highest-ranking Black female executives of a major record label certainly contained a little chance and a lot of initiative.In the late 1990s, Adams—an avid music lover with a growing curiosity in the music business—was attending Savannah State University canadian goose jacket when her older sister ran into a LaFace Records canada goose publisher, and told her about her sister Traci.“It just happened by chance,” says Adams. “For buy canada goose jacket cheap me it was about the experience and the exposure. And hell, growing up back then, the artists that were out—OutKast, Toni Braxton, Goodie Mob, Pink—those were the artists I listened to while I was at college. So to intern at that label at that particular time, where those artists were at the highlight of their career, I was like, ‘Oh, my goodness. I’m interning at this record label. 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