Lil Wayne Sells Masters For $100 Million

[AP3.0]

Idk about the Carter 1 in specific but Uhh yea... You do realize a greatest hits is a label money grab correct? Universal is about to flip tf out of his masters. I don't think you realize how much money can be made solely off that alone and with an artist like wayne? JAY-Z DOESNT EVEN OWN THE MASTERS TO REASONABLE DOUBT and he is still fighting for that to this day.

listen...i used to be a HUGE wayne fan. If you think his music is going to transcend generations like say Jay and Nas, then this is where the disconnect is

Reasonable doubt will be played forever

you cant say the same about a lot of waynes work

and you keep counting mixtapes...they dont count

the only one that might is no ceilings and even the album version of that is missing songs probably due to licensing. He dont eat off no mixtapes b/c of the samples

can he perform those songs in concert? absolutely...but he not getting no residuals from those songs.

 

[5 Grand]

listen...i used to be a HUGE wayne fan. If you think his music is going to transcend generations like say Jay and Nas, then this is where the disconnect is

Reasonable doubt will be played forever

you cant say the same about a lot of waynes work

and you keep counting mixtapes...they dont count

the only one that might is no ceilings and even the album version of that is missing songs probably due to licensing. He dont eat off no mixtapes b/c of the samples

can he perform those songs in concert? absolutely...but he not getting no residuals from those songs.

He can set up a merchandise table at shows and sell the mixtapes hand to hand.

Also, he's looking at 10 years in prison. Maybe he has other things to think about.

 

[AP3.0]

He can set up a merchandise table at shows and sell the mixtapes hand to hand.

Also, he's looking at 10 years in prison. Maybe he has other things to think about.

he cant sell mixtapes that have music from other people brah

thats why they were put on datpiff for free

if he did, he would have to pay the producers and or whoever the producer sampled for a record. He would lose more money doing this

 

[Dwayne]

Everybody don’t want to wait to make the 100 million.

Yiu can make it now and invest in something else.

That’s just business

 

[trapjesusreloaded]

listen...i used to be a HUGE wayne fan. If you think his music is going to transcend generations like say Jay and Nas, then this is where the disconnect is

Reasonable doubt will be played forever

you cant say the same about a lot of waynes work

and you keep counting mixtapes...they dont count

the only one that might is no ceilings and even the album version of that is missing songs probably due to licensing. He dont eat off no mixtapes b/c of the samples

can he perform those songs in concert? absolutely...but he not getting no residuals from those songs.

Wym "keep counting mixtapes" Ive mentioned Mixtapes once. His early work will age well he has a lot to do with the rappers style today. I agree not all his work will transcend generations but some of it will.

 

[Dwayne]

I don’t even think Wayne own the master to his early work

 

[AP3.0]

Wym "keep counting mixtapes" Ive mentioned Mixtapes once. His early work will age well he has a lot to do with the rappers style today. I agree not all his work will transcend generations but some of it will.

lol

fam, i legit know people that think the first carter was his debut album

you wanna keep going with this?

i fuck with the block is hot b/c im from Louisiana and grew up on the nigga music and until maybe Carter 3. Most of the shit after Carter 3 including mixtapes is meh af.

 

[RozayTabernacle]

$100m does seem a lot when you consider his first couple albums were decent to weak at best. But if it turns out to be a bigger Young Money masters purchase then I'd understand it.

 

[AP3.0]

$100m does seem a lot when you consider his first couple albums were decent to weak at best. But if it turns out to be a bigger Young Money masters purchase then I'd understand it.

Block is hot is a personal classic. Just listened to it yesterday. Still a great album

Lights out, typical sophomore follow up

500 degrees was meh imo

 

[IP360]

Its 100 after Birdmans cut?

If Birdman gets a cut...he can use that money to finally pay all the producers who didn't get paid.

 

[Natural Born Sinners]

MIAMI, Fl. (CW69 News at 10) — Dwayne Michael Carter, 38, a/k/a Lil Wayne, pled guilty in federal district court to illegally possessing a loaded, gold-plated .45-caliber handgun while traveling to South Florida on a private plane last December, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

According to court documents, an anonymous tip led officers to Opa Locka Executive Airport on December 23, 2019, where Carter arrived on a private flight from California. Officers spoke with Carter, who told them that he had a gun in his bag. After securing a search warrant, officers looked in the bag containing Carter’s personal items and found a gold-plated Remington 1911, .45-caliber handgun loaded with six rounds of ammunition. The bag also contained personal use amounts of cocaine, ecstasy, and oxycodone.

Prior to December 23, 2019, Carter had been convicted of a felony, which made his possession of the gun and ammunition on that day illegal.


Carter’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for January 28, 2020, before U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams. Carter faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

Tampa Bay 44

Makes you wonder who made the "anonymous tip". He must have had a hater in his inner circle.

Coke, E n oxys... didnt he have a couple "seizures" that lead to his plane having to make emergency landings in the past. All banter aside, I hope Wayne get some non yes men to handle that 100 million. He might have a bigger drug problem than the public is aware of

 

[Natural Born Sinners]

HOW HOW HOW???

name one song of waynes that was featured on a commercial?

the ONLY one i can think of was that mountain Dew one from a few years ago. He intentionally didnt make songs that had crossover appeal. Closest one came to Lollipop and even that shit would have to get watered down just to play on the radio.

you giving him way more credit than he deserves in this

so are they gonna do a 40 year anniversary of the Carter 1 or something?? lol

Doesn't take much for a song to be featured on something. Also Wayne has a very popular catalog outside of his mixtapes

 

[Los216]

Block is hot is a personal classic. Just listened to it yesterday. Still a great album

Lights out, typical sophomore follow up

500 degrees was meh imo

I bought 500 Degrees, Nellyville, and a Shockwave CD player from Fye on my birthday that year. I love 500 degrees. I was also the first dude in my circle who was a Lil Wayne fan. I remember after 500 degrees I had Wayne in my top 5 and niggas was looking at me crazy saying I didn't know shit about rap. Fast forward 3 years later to Carter II and now the whole school is Lil Wayne fans.

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

Doesn't take much for a song to be featured on something. Also Wayne has a very popular catalog outside of his mixtapes

But they haven't been.

 

[5 Grand]

Music is funny. You might think an artist is wack, but sometimes that same artist has a following in another age bracket, or in another region...or in another country.

I've been told that alot of American music that is popular in America doesn't crossover to other countries. And some of the American music that's considered underground is more popular overseas than what's popular here.

Point being, You have absolutely no idea what the future holds when it comes to art.

Here's a few examples








^^^ Those songs were completely worthless. You could probably have bought the copyright and publishing for those songs for a few thousand dollars in the mid 80s.

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

For all the folks that think Wayne is gonna get all these big royalty checks for years to come.

Mariah Carey's All i Want For Christmas is one of the most popular songs EVER

And 26 years later that song has "only" generated 60 million in royalties and Wayne doesn't have a song/album that is even remotely in the same universe as MC song as far as popularity.

Yeah over the next 20/30/40 years he could make some bread off his catalog but it damn sure wasn't gonna be anywhere near 100 million or more.

 

[StringerBell]

Universal Music Group acquired Young Money catalog for over $100m in June (says Lil Wayne’s ex-manager, who’s suing him for $20m) - Music Business Worldwide

Lawsuit claims that Ronald Sweeney missed out on promised 10% cut of Young Money sale price…

www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

Sweeney’s lawsuit alleges that, as Lil Wayne’s “personal manager”, the artist agreed to pay Sweeney 10% of proceeds from three separate paydays: two lawsuit settlements – which we’ll come back to – plus the sale of “any master recordings owned by the Young Money [record] Label”.

An important bit of history: Young Money Entertainment was formed by Lil Wayne in 2005, following a renegotiation with the artist’s label, Cash Money Records (which itself is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group).

Since Young Money launched as an imprint/JV of/with Cash Money, the label has put out huge records by artists such as Drake (including Scorpion, Views, Nothing Was The Same and If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late), plus Nicki Minaj (including Pink Friday, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, The Pinkprint) and Wayne himself (including Tha Carter IV, Rebirth, I Am Not A Human Being).

The suit reads: “Plaintiffs are informed and believe… that, subsequent to [Sweeney’s] termination [as Wayne’s manager], specifically in or about June of 2020, Lil Wayne was able to sell the Young Money Masters to Universal Music Group for in excess of $100 Million.”

Whether or not that price-tag is accurate, this piece of information chimes with something MBW observed earlier this year: Drake’s new records in 2020, including hit Toosie Slide and the Dark Lane Demo Tapesmixtape, have been released on OVO – Drake’s own label – under exclusive license to Republic Records. However, all of Drake’s big albums up to and including Scorpion (2018) show a recording copyright credit of Young Money/Cash Money on platforms like Spotify.

It therefore seems Drake has inked a new deal with Universal Music Group and Republic (via OVO) for his latest recordings. But, with UMG having acquired Young Money, the major record company now owns the star’s pre-2018 catalog.

In addition to Sweeney’s allegation that he missed out getting paid a full 10% of the Young Money sale proceeds, Sweeney (pictured inset) alleges that he also didn’t get paid a full 10% share of monetary settlements in two legal disputes.

One of those legal disputes saw Lil Wayne sue Cash Money in 2014, alleging alleged unpaid revenues that Cash Money owed to Young Money for money generated by Drake and Nicki Minaj records.

Apparently Nicki‘s and Aubrey’s masters were part of the deal too...

 

[RusselWilsonJr]

For all the folks that think Wayne is gonna get all these big royalty checks for years to come.

Mariah Carey's All i Want For Christmas is one of the most popular songs EVER

And 26 years later that song has "only" generated 60 million in royalties and Wayne doesn't have a song/album that is even remotely in the same universe as MC song as far as popularity.

Yeah over the next 20/30/40 years he could make some bread off his catalog but it damn sure wasn't gonna be anywhere near 100 million or more.

Lol..only 60 million

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

Lol..only 60 million

That's why it was in parentheses and italicized

 

[Mr.LV]