The feud between Lil Wayne and Birdman began in the final months of 2014, when Wayne revealed that Birdman’s label, Cash Money Records, was hindering the release of his hotly coveted Tha Carter V album, and withholding payment for his work. The surprising Twitter rant came just weeks after Wayne’s labelmate, Tyga, revealed similar feelings towards the label in a string of tweets. In the wake of those social media revelations, Birdman was steadfast in iterating that everything would be fine, and that differences and disputes are not abnormal in a family as tight as his.
2015 brought about lawsuits, troubling indictments, and public denouncements of CMR by Wayne, Tyga, and seemingly Drake. The latter infamously rapped “Walk up in my label like, ‘where the check go?’ / Yeah I said it” on his surprise If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late mixtape, which was released as a retail project allegedly due to Drizzy’s will to quickly meet the alleged five-album quota of his Cash Money contract. However, on New Year’s Eve, Drake, Birdman, Lil Wayne and other prominent members of Young Money and Cash Money were photographed posing together, leading the general public to believe that Baby was right, and all would soon be well in paradise.
That being said, the $50 million lawsuit Lil Wayne levied against Birdman and Cash Money has yet to be rescinded, and the timetable for the release of Tha Carter V, which was initially set to drop the summer of 2014, has yet to be updated. So, despite the perceived resolution of the internal beef, Lil Wayne is back to denouncing his label publicly, and he did so recently at a show in Denver.
During a performance on Saturday at a rally in Denver, Wayne can be heard yelling “F*ck the bullsh*t” and “F*ck Cash Money” on footage shot by a fan. He even engaged the crowd in the chants, which is in no way an indication that everything is good again in Cash Money’s paradise.
