In a recent interview with Complex Magazine, former Cash Money label mate Juvenile spills some piping hot tea on his feelings regarding what’s keeping Lil Wayne at Cash Money Records.
“When Wayne was trying to leave Cash Money [in the mid-2000s], he was trying to find out how did I leave. He wanted to see my paperwork. If you want the paperwork and help from my end, I need to be compensated for it. [He never paid for it].
Still, Wayne really got beat out of all his money and took another contract. That’s part I never understood. I wanted him to leave. All of a sudden he signed back I’m like, ‘[expletive] what type of deal he got working’?
If you notice the Young Money/Cash Money imprint, some of the stuff that need to say Young Money don’t say Young Money. I know Baby and I know Ronald [“Slim” Williams]. They ain’t giving up power of their company. They don’t care how big Wayne gets. If I didn’t get it, he ain’t getting it.
[Tha Carter III] album did great. But I don’t think Wayne collected a dime on royalty side. I don’t think he’s gonna be able to because some of the cats he was dealing with wasn’t doing straight business on the producer side.
I thought he was scared [that’s why he stayed]. That’s how I took it.”
