So yet another artist has talked openly about being unpaid by Cash Money Records. Mannie Fresh spoke to Erika Ramirez for Billboard about his future plans, money problems with Cash Money, working with Kanye & Dr. Dre and more. Here are a few excerpts from the conversation.
What’s your current status with 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.
In addition to contributing to Juvenile’s upcoming album, “Rejuvenation,” you’ve been working with Dr. Dre and Kanye West. What’s that been like?
Kanye inspires me through his work ethic and his approach. He’ll tell you his whole warm-up speech: “When we’re doing a song, we’re not doing a song just to be doing a song. We’re striving for a No. 1 song.” With Dr. Dre, he’s a perfectionist. A lot of people ask why “Detox” is taking so long. It’s because Dre is somebody that is trying to top what he’s done. Will he do it? I don’t know if he ever will, but I respect that he’s trying to do so. You have to wait for a masterpiece.
We’re all fans of Dre down South. He can park it in Atlanta and I promise you Detox would come out tomorrow.