![]() There is no explanation as to how this reduction in payment correlates to Wayne’s original claim that Cash Money refused to release his album. “As the deals got bigger, they got more complicated, and our money slowed,” says Ron Sweeney, Wayne’s attorney and manager. ![]() By the time Wayne delivered the masters for what was to be Tha Carter V in December 2014, he had only been paid one-fifth of his guarantee. Here’s a key excerpt from reporter Dan Rys:īut beginning in 2013, court documents show, Cash Money’s monthly accounting and payments to Young Money and Wayne became erratic, stopping altogether in February 2014. But it seems the album will finally come out this fall - just not on Cash Money Records, the label that’s been releasing Wayne’s music since he was a child in the early ’90s.Ī new Billboard cover story today details the legal battle between Wayne and Cash Money’s Brian “Birdman” Williams that resulted in Tha Carter V being shelved. The road to Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V has been long, winding, and bumpy: announced in 2012, scheduled for release in 2014, yet still not on the market four years later.
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