Cortez Bryant, Lil Wayne’s manager got a chance to stop by ‘Rap Radar’ where he spoke on Wayne’s issues with Cash Money. Bryant reveals that ‘Tha Carter V’ was actually suppose to drop on Google for free but Birdman was the reason that that did not happen.
Cortez says,
We were ready to put our Carter V. We put out ‘Believe Me’ as a single before we put out the record… it’s never been a situation [with Cash Money] where I would have to worry about anything financial. They were great with the checks because we’d come with a plan, I’d lay it out to them, they cut the check…This time, once we put it out, the check didn’t come.”
He even said Google was in on the deal due to a negotiation that they had after Wayne released ‘Believe Me.’ He says,
“We had a deal cut with Google where they were going to back the album and put it out for free. When I presented it to Slim and Baby, they didn’t get it and the label was against it. They basically told me ‘Yo, we can’t put the album out.’ When I had to tell Wayne that, he was like ‘What? You can’t stop me, you can’t hold me back. I got to tell my fans because they don’t deserve this and I’m ’bout to air it out. Before I got off the phone to call his lawyer to let him know we was about to have some shit, TMZ was on the other line.”
Source: Complex
