Lil Wayne Sues Cash Money For $51 Million

The rapper also hopes to end contract with label and requests joint right to everything published by Young Money



Lil Wayne performed in Mountain View, California on September 16, 2014. The rapper is suing Cash Money Records for $ 51 million.
Lil Wayne is suing Cash Money hoping to end their contract with the label, according to TMZ. The lawsuit alleges that the CEO Bryan "Birdman" Williams and company have retained a substantial amount of money owed regarding still unreleased new album by rapper, Tha Carter V. Because the label didn paid the money they claim is owed, Wayne claims to be able to leave cash.

In addition to the breakup of his contract, Lil Wayne is seeking $ 51 million and has asked a judge to declare the joint ownership of copyright in everything published on his label Cash Money, Young Money, including recordings Drake and Nicki Minaj.

Last month, the rapper spoke publicly against Cash Money, Twitter, "Want out of this label" and calling himself a prisoner. Tha Carter V was originally due out in May, but a December was delayed; not out and the website of Cash Money still advertised as "very soon". At the time of the tweets from Weezy, his manager, Cortez Bryant, that the rapper had no intention of leaving the label.

Last week, Lil Wayne reached a new mixtape, Sorry 4 Wait 2. He preceded freedom with a song, "Shit (Remix)" which contained the song: "My time at Cash Money, time served and placed in freedom / but this agent is not free, word, that's the word on these streets.”Another track, "CoCo", found compared with Scarface. "Cash is an army, I am an army of one man / and if them niggas comin 'for me, I'll be like Tony / Now I do not want any trouble, I just want my money." The compilation is available for download via DatPiff.