Mannie Fresh Says Stops Lying: “Hip-Hop Is Unforgiving. If They Find Something About You, They’ll Never Let It Die”

Written By S. Samuel

Former Cash Money Records producer Mannie Fresh recently dished out some rules of thumb he has learned from over two decades in the music industry and why honesty always prevails.

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Fresh said the biggest tip he has for industry hopefuls is respecting the power of truth.

“Don’t lie. It’ll catch up with you. Same way you came in this, leave how you came in. Because hip-hop is unforgiving. If they find something about you, they’ll never let it die. And homeboy business don’t do it. Get your attorney. It’s all good when we ain’t got nothing, but when we get it, that’s when you see the other side of people that you never thought existed.” (XXL Mag)

Earlier this year, the music hitmaker said money problems have kept things rocky between him and Cash Money.

“We still have money issues. We will always have them, as long as Cash Money is selling anything that has Mannie Fresh on it. ‘Til this day, I’m like, “Dude, what’s going on? Where are the statements for this?” There’s always some kind of complication, that’s all I can say,” Fresh said in an interview. “Everybody has to get paid. It would be something large if Cash Money did a tour with the first generation of artists, but with everything that’s happened, we need money upfront and on top of that we all need our own attorneys. You don’t get my money and pay me-I get my money directly.” (Billboard)

In November, he blamed the star-studded label for botching a potential longstanding relationship with Def Jam.

“I got this deal with Def Jam through Jay-Z,” Fresh said during the Red Bull Music Academy 2011 in Madrid. “Jay-Z reached out, he was like, ‘I’ll do a deal with you. You come to Def Jam and you do your thing. And I’m over there and I talk to Lil Wayne. I’m like, ‘Hey dude, I got a deal with Def Jam and they pretty much are going to give me my situation, do what I want to do.’ They were like, ‘Just deliver a big song.’ So I go to Lil Wayne, he does the song with me and soon as I get ready to put it out, Cash Money shuts it down. They were just like, ‘Nah, you didn’t get permission from us to do that.’ And I’m like, ‘Wow, it’s really that serious? That’s kinda ugly of y’all to do that.’ And I’m like, ‘Wayne agreed to do the song.’ And they were like, ‘Well, Wayne can’t speak for Wayne. We speak for Wayne.’ … So that was a learning lesson for me and it kind of gave Def Jam a salty taste too because they was just like, ‘Every time we do something, if it’s going to get shutdown, we really don’t want to do this with you.'” (Red Bull Music Academy)

Two years ago, Mannie detailed his issues with Cash Money boss and former Big Tymers partner Birdman.

“This is why Mannie Fresh don’t f*ck with [Cash Money] because he never got any royalty money,” he said in an interview. “That’s why Baby can go around flaunting this cash, because that’s everyone else’s money… It’s not even Wayne’s fault. Wayne is not getting money. He is given money, he’s not getting money. If Baby gets a million dollars he’ll buy Wayne a Phantom, but that’s in Cash Money’s name. That 14-bedroom mansion isn’t Wayne sh*t. That’s why he have his own company, because he was trying to leave Cash Money and the only thing that would keep him there was [if they] gave him his own thing. But Baby still controls that. All those Young Money artists don’t even know that they not getting royalty money.” (VIBE)

Check out a past Mannie Fresh interview below:

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Steven Samuel is the co-founder of SOHH.com.

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