Complex sentence: In 2000 Wells began managing a Dallas-based hip hop group called "Virus" and they briefly signed with Warner Brothers in 2001, before being dropped from the label-thus the group's first album "Outbreak" was never released and shelved indefinitely.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2000 Wells began managing a Dallas-based hip hop group called Virus and they briefly signed with Warner Brothers in 2001, before being dropped from the label. As a result, the group's first album "Outbreak" was never released and shelved indefinitely.