Cash Money Records is engaged in yet another legal tussle, this time with the former management company for Drake. The Aspire Music Group is alleging in a lawsuit that Cash Money has withheld the Canadian superstar’s profits that it agreed to share in a deal signed in 2008.
Drake and Aspire entered into a management partnership that year, a four-year exclusive arrangement in where it was later agreed in a second deal that Cash Money would receive one-third of Drizzy’s songwriting and licensing profits, reports Page Six. Aspire says Cash Money is withholding statements from that time period and has yet to pay out any of the agreed upon terms.
Manhattan Supreme Court records show that in 2009, Drake signed his Cash Money Records deal via his connection with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment. It was then that Drake signed the second agreement that is the current point of contention. The suit states that Drake was set to honor the agreement for four albums. Conversely, Drake reworked his agreement with Aspire in 2012 over unpaid royalties and has since cut ties with the company.
Former Aspire exec Jas Prince and Young Money Records settled their legal differences for good last summer after Prince launched an $11 million lawsuit that was claimed to have been settled in 2014. Because of Aspire’s claims that Cash Money held out the profits, monies owed to Prince for discovering and getting Drake signed to the company were held up.
This adds to Birdman’s legal woes with Lil Wayne, with the “father and son” contending over the release of the Young Money honcho’s Tha Carter V album. Birdman promises that the project will be liberated this year, but Weezy says that’s not true.
Birdman’s one greedy-ass nigga
IDK when niggas gonna get the message , Birdman not about to pay you. He spent that money on a gold toilet
You’re not getting your money might as well chunk it as a lost, Birdman has top notch lawyers that he actually pays to come up with ways not to pay you lol. I remember we B.G came out back in the days and left because he said birdman was robbing them, then Juvie, then mannie now wayne, this is why I think wayne is one of the dumbest rappers of all time you seen it coming and didn’t do anything about it, he even re up his contract at a time when he was the hottest rapper/musican on the planet and you still came out on bottom. Wayne should have Dr Dre, Puff, Jay Z money, If I was in wayne position I would have peace out Birdman sign Nicki and Drake excusively owned everything they did been damn there a billionaire by now, thats what Jay Z, Dr dre, Puff, Snoop, Iovine, all would have done Damn wayne you missed out on a guaranteed 500 million
“Birdman has top notch lawyers that he actually pays” Well the lawyers must be the only people he does pay lol
You must didn’t see who was involved in the lawsuit and the fact that they already dropped off some chips to him earlier for another contract dispute. All I had to see was Jaz Prince, and I know this will get paid because Birdman don’t want those problems.
Nobody is afraid of Jaz or J Prince those stories or just a myth similar to Suge, real thugs and ganster in the Houston/New Orleans area never feared Prince, the only people that he had shook were those fake ganster rappers he sign. They were just like school bullies they know what people not to F with and only bullied the weak, You seen what happen when they tried to intimidate Big Mike he burn down their studio, and what did Prince do, put the cops on it, Big Mike went to Jail for like 6 years. Same with Suge people outside of L.A may been shook by Suge and might have bought into the myth, but bloods and crips in Cali never feared Suge, they tried to make it like Suge Intimidating Eazy but people in the L.A area know, Eazy was really from the block he was really out there known too in L.A in the 80s, Suge was a school boy athlete that went to college wasn’t known for anything in the streets. They never tell you the story of Crips pushing up on Suge pulling pistols on him asking him if he had a issue with Eazy, Dpg couldn’t go anywhere in Compton, Eazy had to let his people know that it was good for business the disses because it put his name back out there again. It’s the ones you think are soft that are the most Dangerous Suge and Prince reputation is over blown, People like Diddy, Clive Davis, Iovine more so with the authorities you seen what happen to Murder Inc that was all Iovine for fear of Murder Inc messing up Em’s career,
J. Prince’s rep is hardly overblown, and I don’t underestimate anybody as you seem to think. Clive Davis and Iovine are standard industry snakes just like Sean Combs. But you’re talking about who you don’t want issues with on a street level, and J. Prince’s rep is true just like Master P’s is. Suge’s was as well before most of the dudes that did his dirt got killed. What your’e talking about is 2 different things of industry politics and street ones and why you’re trying to juxtapose them is beyond me. Big Mike burned the studio and has was also pretty bad on drugs back then, but I bet you knew that too, lol.
One thing you don’t understand about people like Clive Diddy, Iovine is they are willing to end you too, they are ruthless and they have friends in places that guys like Suge, P, Prince don’t have. Ask anybody that was out there in L.A in the 80’s and 90’s about Suge he has a industry rep, not street, the notion that he bullied Eazy is one of the most misleading things in hiphop/rap history. Suge beat down wimps period, Deathrow got their ass whooped in 94 By Miami niggas they got stomped out bad in Atlanta at the Jack the Rapper event. But Suge is so tough right what did he do too Luke in his boys that rushed and beatdown Deathrow??? NOTHING. The Doggpound Dissed Bone thugs on their first album and then got Checked In L.A By Bone thugs/Mo Thugs/Black Hole Watts Crips, what did Deathrow do NOTHING on their on turf. What does Big Mike being on drugs have to do with anything name me one rapper that’s not on drugs you said Prince is so street??? no real street ganster put the police on anybody, Prince was mad Mike wanted out of the contract and told him when it was up he wasn’t resigning. P reputation is solid because he is actually known for putting in work, along with C-murder, this is something that Prince and Suge are not known for putting in any work themselves.
This nigga birdman holding money hostage like Trump with taxes lls
Oy Vey! (A lawsuit and a j_w these two things seem to go hand in hand)
I can’t wait until this game of musical chairs ends up with Drake’s fake ass standing without a seat when the music stops. Actually, when he tries to sue (which is inevitable), all they have to do is stop paying people to write his rhymes/songs. The producers will cut out real quick, ala Manny Fresh. LOL. The studio made clone rapper from Canada with a fake Jamaican accent, that somehow speaks US slang, will be out in the cold, eh? LOL. People are sheep.
Damn Pusha T was right.
And Drake still makes more in a year than Pusha T does in 10.
So does One Direction, and Kaytlyn Jenner. What’s your point? Are they all better rappers than Pusha T, who writes his own rhymes and uses slang from where he grew up? Dumbass.
We found the resident millenial fuckboi. How exactly does Drake make more in a year if he didnt get paid for his 5 years of work. Yous a really smart guy.
Birdman’s name is synonymous with shadiness. I mean, I don’t understand how it is that people do business with this guy; he must be a really really good dream seller. I think the way he looks at it is that he is entitled to your earnings if he gives you the platform to shine. He is basically selling the platform which to him means he owns all your shit and you make out with what you can.
Somehow though, he has always done well with the projects he attaches himself/the Cash Money brand to, and they almost always do reasonably well. Like he has a great record for discovering, nurturing, and releasing successful artists and projects. I feel it has to come down to him being a good Executive Producer, even if in most circles that is a meaningless title. I know his business practices are shady as f*ck, but as an aspiring rapper, when you feel you could probably get yourself to Wayne/Drake/Nicki, or even Tyga levels with this dude, where you can profit off your name and fame alone, the money you give up from the music might not seem so bad.
cooking up the carter 3, no advances
-birdman
you think this nigga gonna pay out royalties? he literally brags about it in the pop bottles song as mentioned above lolz