Money Cash Information is the best Hip Hop label of all time, based on Irv Gotti.
The Homicide Inc. founder gave Birdman and Ronald “Slim” Williams’ empire the crown throughout a latest look on the Earn Your Leisure podcast, the place he mentioned the potential worth of a few of the greatest rap labels’ catalogs.
Gotti, who bought his 50 p.c possession stake of Homicide Inc.’s masters to Iconoclast in a $300 million deal that additionally included movie and TV tasks earlier this 12 months, speculated that Money Cash’s multi-platinum discography might be value as a lot as $1 billion.
“Birdman the most effective that ever did it?” co-host Rashad Bilal requested, to which Irv replied: “Yeah. So far as labels go, there’s no disputing Money Cash is the best label ever.
“Give it some thought. [Raps Juvenile’s ‘Ha’] — that shit was out over, what, 25 years in the past? Them n-ggas been sizzling all this time. They acquired Drake, they acquired Nicki. They’re the most effective label ever. Nobody’s even near Money Cash, I don’t assume.”
He added: “And in the event that they ever wished to promote, Child and Slim may get a billi. Somebody will give them a billion {dollars}, y’all.”
Regardless of his admiration of Money Cash, Irv Gotti hasn’t all the time endeared himself to the powerhouse New Orleans label. Final 12 months, Gotti felt the wrath of Birdman after weighing in on his high-profile authorized battle with Lil Wayne.
In a 2017 interview with Complicated‘s On a regular basis Wrestle, the Homicide Inc. hitmaker broke down Money Cash’s profitable 90/10 distribution take care of Common, arguing Birdman may simply afford to pay Weezy the tens of millions of {dollars} he claimed he was owed.
“I don’t get the Weezy and Birdman factor,” he mentioned. “You say this man is your son, you’ve identified this man endlessly. It is best to work that out. Simply pay him, man! He deserves it. Not solely did he put Money Cash Information on his again for all them years, he introduced you fucking Nicki and Drake!”
4 years later, Birdman belatedly fired again at Irv Gotti by sharing a clip of his feedback on Instagram together with the caption: “I’m jus seen this [red blood drop emoji] thoughts ur Fukin enterprise I been a get cash n-gga RG.”
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As for his personal label, which pumped out its justifiable share of hits within the late ’90s and early ’00s due to Ja Rule and Ashanti, Irv Gotti views Diddy’s Unhealthy Boy Leisure as Homicide Inc.’s finest match-up within the Verzuz ring.
“It must be Unhealthy Boy, which is the one factor that’s comparable, you understand what I’m saying?” he mentioned on Drink Champs in August whereas discussing a possible label-on-label battle. “I can’t say Drake as a result of the music is totally different. It’s laborious going towards them gangsta-ass data.”
He added: “I feel [Ja] Rule kinda cemented it when he did the Verzuz with Fats Joe — our household, what up Joe? I feel he kinda cemented, like, ‘We ain’t nothing to fuck with.’ We ain’t nothing to fuck with.”
