Post by Deamonic Angel on Sept 17, 2008 8:19:13 GMT
After selling more than two million copies of his latest album, Cash Money Records has re-upped with their flagship artist Lil Wayne.
“We were introduced to him when he was just a little, little kid,” recalls Slim of when he met Weezy. “He told us he wanted to be a rapper. He just called us every day, and at one point, even came to live with us. He just outworked everybody. He had that drive to succeed.”
“Working with our son, Lil Wayne, throughout the many years has helped us build Cash Money into the empire it is today. Cash Money is a family and Lil Wayne has been part of our family since day one,” added Birdman.
Lil Wayne has literally grown up as a Cash Money artist, from the time he was a young teenager and part of the legendary hip-hop group Hot Boys with fellow label artists B.G., Juvenile and Turk. He is credited with introducing the term, “bling,” into the rap vernacular in the Big Tymers’ 1998 track, “Millionaire Dream.” He went on to score platinum albums with Tha Block Is Hot as well as the first two installments of Tha Carter trilogy.
To date, he’s released six solo album, and one EP, via Cash Money Records, and with a new deal in place, much more is to come. The partnership between Cash Money and Lil Wayne will continue, with a multi-album pact that takes them into the future together.
“Tha Carter III is just the tip of the iceberg with Lil Wayne,” continues Slim. “The best is yet to come.”
Since landing its historic deal with Universal Music Group in 1998, which guaranteed Cash Money all revenues from record sales and music publishing, as well as ownership of its masters, the label has been distributed by Universal Motown Records Group.
Although he’s reached the biggest peak of his career, and recently hit 2.4 million sales of Tha Carter III, Weezy is already back in the studio working on new mixtapes with artists from his own Young Money label, and his next solo project, Tha Carter IV.
“Tha Carter IV is nice,” Wayne told MTV this week, “but you need to be looking for Dedication 3. Me and DJ Drama are going back at it. Gangsta Grillz. I’m showcasing my whole clique — the Young Money family. And three months after that, I got 30 more [songs], and we’re gonna give them away for free — as I always do — on my Web site.”
Source: www.keepittrill.com
“We were introduced to him when he was just a little, little kid,” recalls Slim of when he met Weezy. “He told us he wanted to be a rapper. He just called us every day, and at one point, even came to live with us. He just outworked everybody. He had that drive to succeed.”
“Working with our son, Lil Wayne, throughout the many years has helped us build Cash Money into the empire it is today. Cash Money is a family and Lil Wayne has been part of our family since day one,” added Birdman.
Lil Wayne has literally grown up as a Cash Money artist, from the time he was a young teenager and part of the legendary hip-hop group Hot Boys with fellow label artists B.G., Juvenile and Turk. He is credited with introducing the term, “bling,” into the rap vernacular in the Big Tymers’ 1998 track, “Millionaire Dream.” He went on to score platinum albums with Tha Block Is Hot as well as the first two installments of Tha Carter trilogy.
To date, he’s released six solo album, and one EP, via Cash Money Records, and with a new deal in place, much more is to come. The partnership between Cash Money and Lil Wayne will continue, with a multi-album pact that takes them into the future together.
“Tha Carter III is just the tip of the iceberg with Lil Wayne,” continues Slim. “The best is yet to come.”
Since landing its historic deal with Universal Music Group in 1998, which guaranteed Cash Money all revenues from record sales and music publishing, as well as ownership of its masters, the label has been distributed by Universal Motown Records Group.
Although he’s reached the biggest peak of his career, and recently hit 2.4 million sales of Tha Carter III, Weezy is already back in the studio working on new mixtapes with artists from his own Young Money label, and his next solo project, Tha Carter IV.
“Tha Carter IV is nice,” Wayne told MTV this week, “but you need to be looking for Dedication 3. Me and DJ Drama are going back at it. Gangsta Grillz. I’m showcasing my whole clique — the Young Money family. And three months after that, I got 30 more [songs], and we’re gonna give them away for free — as I always do — on my Web site.”
Source: www.keepittrill.com