New court documents filed in Lil Wayne’s lawsuit against Cash Money CEO Bryan “Birdman” Williams say that Young Money artists Drake, Nicki Minaj and Tyga were not paid as promised, TMZ reports.
The documents say that Lil Wayne has obtained letters from Drake and Tyga‘s respective teams making the claims the artists were not compensated properly. Minaj‘s representatives say that her producers were not sufficiently paid and that the responsibility falls to Cash Money, the parent company of Lil Wayne’s Young Money label.
The documents continue by saying that Young Money was supposed to receive a $100 million advance from Universal Music Group, which Cash Money signed a publishing and distribution deal with in 1998. The advance went directly to Cash Money and Young Money claims it did not receive the check.
Cash Money counters by saying that they gave Lil Wayne a $20 million advance in 2012 plus an additional $12 million for his solo album. They say they also gave him $70 million for the Young Money roster’s advances, royalties, marketing and recording costs.
In June, Lil Wayne threatened that Drake and Nicki Minaj would leave Cash Money Records because they were not being treated fairly.
Lil Wayne first filed the lawsuit against Cash Money in January and is asking for $51 million. The New Orleans rapper first expressed dissatisfaction with the label in December when he posted on Twitter that he wanted “off this label and nothing to do with these people.”
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He did u a favor Wayne , all those artists suck
Who are you to say they suck?? Drake and nicki album sales do lie
Dick rider of the millennium goes to….TRUTH…album sales don’t depict the greatness of an artist you uncultured swine. There are far better rappers that cannot get album sales due to lack of exposure. Don’s opinion is one that I have to agree with. Wayne and all them artists are whack.
Don making up bullshit again.
Nope, it’s you who’s making up bullshit, Dan
Wayne lies again. Drake and nicki wanted to be cash money artists forever. If anything, they want nothing to do with young money anymore. Tyga was also a greedy fuck.
Do you just pull this shit out of your a**..wayne discovered them and helped them both out when wayne called both of them they were more than happy to be with young money I heard it straight from they’re mouth
That was before wayne acted like a bitch on twitter. Now they associate themselves with birdman more.
Man you are making yourself look stupid…if your reading this it’s too late..the album came with a handwritten letter to birdman saying fuck you pay me…birdman could not get into nicki album release party..God somebody teach this kid
It came with no such letter. And Nicki’s party was about to close and they weren’t letting anyone in.
Dan, you’re the only one lying. Clearly, Drake and Nicki don’t want to be Cash Money artists if they’re not hanging around him. Wayne and Tyga weren’t greedy, Birdman is.
Drake and Nicki hang around birdman all the time.
No, they don’t. Birdman is too busy fucking Young Thug to care about Drake and Nicki.
Birdman certainly cares enough to approve of drake and nicki’s album for release. He cared enough to withhold carter 5 unless it turned out to be great and not dogshit like it was becoming.
Every Cash Money album is shit, Birdman doesn’t care about quality as long as it sells.
If that was the case, tha carter 5 would be out and it would stink with critics. Birdman cares about reputations too.
Wayne’s last 4 albums stunk with the critics, too. Carter 5 was gonna suck, no matter what. Birdman doesn’t care about anything but money.
Birdman would have put tha carter 5 out right away then if he only cares about money.
Birdman doesn’t care about Carter 5. He’s too busy riding Young Thug’s dick.
Birdman isn’t that stupid to not care about it. He just wants to make sure its a classic so it can get everyone involved more money. Does that explanation make it clear to you dumbass? Now of course, tha carter 5 won’t happen because wayne’s the dumbass.
Classic? Birdman doesn’t care about that since none of Cash Money’s albums are classic. Your explanation is stupid and flawed. The reason why Carter 5 isn’t happening is not because of Wayne, but because of Birdman. He’s the dumbass.
You never give a 100 million to a retard. Wanye should have know better than to trust birdman with his young money label. He was old enough and had the access to the appropriate resources to secure his own label out of birdman’s control… At the end of the day if this contract falls apart, Drake, Nicki and Wanye need to go there separate ways and just do joint venture recordings. No loyalty in business.
Lil Wayne has been doped up for years. Birdman probably fucked all 3 of them out of their money, but he most likely did it legally by getting Wayne doped up to sign a bad contract. Just like TLC got fucked over for CrazySexyCool. They got fucked over, but it was all legal by the contract they signed.
Daaaaam look at bitch ass drake in that pic hahaha hes talkin bowt catchin bodies and whippin work smh
It’s ‘CHEQUE’ when referring to monetary sums.
Please ensure your writers have the basic linguistic and grammar skills to compete at the highest level.
i think wayne should take it easy dont. bite the fingers that feeds u,what goes around comes around,he and bird goes way back i v got love 4 Wayne but on this,i think he z goin 2 far
So you saying he supposed to just chuck it up as a loss and not recoup the money he’s owed? You sound stupid, FOH!
Wayne isn’t a fool he j kept quiet all this while because Birdman was like a father figure to him,why’s he the one fighting for young money shits ,why’s Drake and Nicki not supporting
how the phuck would you say Drake and Nicki are whack ? so if they are whack what does that make young thug ?