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One of hip-hop’s most popular producers, Bangladesh has decided to air out Cash Money (Birdman in particular) due to their foul business practices. He revealed in a VIBE interview that he has yet to be paid for his production on The Carter III. It’s safe to say that if it were not for his production (he did A Milli if you’re already slow), Lil’ Wayne’s album wouldn’t have sold as many records. He was talking real wild recently, but he’s dead on with this one. He then goes on to explain how Baby really owns everything and Wayne really doesn’t have the money everyone thinks he has and that’s why people like Manny Fresh left the camp. I’ve heard these stories in the past, and they are probably all true. Just look at Birdman’s spending habits. Buying $210,00 Gucci Diamonds, flying private jets – hell, he just bet $4 million dollars on the Mayweather/Mosley fight so he could win $1 million back on 4 to 1 odds! And this guy doesn’t have the money for one of the most used beats in the last 3 years?
Birdman operates under the Suge Knight/Death Row business mantra: Keep all of the money and buy whatever your artists need for them. That’s why you see Weezy getting all of these extravagant birthday gifts like $1 million in a briefcase or a watch worth the same price and diamonds in a birthday cake. Sad, but very real. Read Bangladesh’s comments for yourself and beware of those expensive gifts!
“It’s [Wayne and Baby’s] responsibility to pay [me] because all the money from album sales goes to Cash Money. I get checks from Sony for Beyoncé, checks from different labels for different artists, it just comes to you. You don’t have to call them, sue them and all that junk. This is what you’re owed.”
He continues, “I don’t really give a fuck about [Wayne]. I can’t give a fuck about somebody that don’t give a fuck about my situation, I have kids. In the hood, people get killed for ten dollars. I couldn’t imagine owing someone hundreds of thousands of dollars and just walking around in front of them. I’m so confident in myself, that I don’t need Lil Wayne. There’s gonna be so many opportunities. I can create a Lil Wayne.”
“This is why Mannie Fresh don’t fuck with [Cash Money] because he never got any royalty money. That’s why Baby can go around flaunting this cash, because that’s everyone else’s money… It’s not even Wayne’s fault. Wayne is not getting money. He is given money, he’s not getting money. If Baby gets a million dollars he’ll buy Wayne a Phantom, but that’s in Cash Money’s name. That 14-bedroom mansion isn’t Wayne shit,” he says. “That’s why he have his own company, because he was trying to leave Cash Money and the only thing that would keep him there was [if they] gave him his own thing. But Baby still controls that. All those Young Money artists don’t even know that they not getting royalty money.”
