Boosie Badazz has breathed fire against Empire Records for what, he claims, is their failure to pay him accordingly for his artist Yung Bleu.
In an Instagram Live session which he held on Saturday (July 1), the “Wipe Me Down” rapper slammed the label — with whom he has a distribution deal — for allegedly not compensating him accordingly for signing the award-winning rapper to his label.
“You wouldn’t play with me like this, bro,” he began. “Pay me my fuckin’ money, bro. Y’all forged my fuckin’ signature, bro.”
He continued: “Now you and all parties involved will receive paperwork. If not Monday, then this Tuesday, it’s just this, okay? Now you all hit back. Now. You wanna hit back now? What up, bro?”
Boosie goes off on Empire Records over not being paid for his artist Yung Bleu https://t.co/52WCdDsvQrpic.twitter.com/EKXNZZ7vuL
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) July 2, 2023
This isn’t the first time that Boosie has threatened legal action over Yung Bleu.
Back in March, the Baton Rouge native said he wanted to take the label to court after Bleu’s 2019 departure from Boosie’s Vandross Music Group created a contractual dispute that Boosie wants to settle in court. Boosie accused the people around Bleu of squeezing him out of a deal, but believes he’ll emerge victorious and receive the compensation he’s due.
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“I gotta take everybody to court,” he said. “Yung Bleu ain’t really in it; it’s just the people who was behind it. They did some messed up business, and it’s gonna come back to haunt everybody. I was just fucked over, bro. I don’t really blame Bleu, but I got ’em. This shit is crazy.”
He added, “You gotta understand, you got so many people trying to come in … These other labels came in and tried to X me out, and this man signed to me … Shit just get crazy when you get to making money, man … I feel like we gonna get through it. I don’t want his money; I want him to have all the money! I want they money!”
Yung Bleu opened up about his label situation with Boosie Badazz during an interview with HipHopDX in 2020, revealing he gave Boosie a percentage of the profits from the albums that he owed Bad Azz Music Syndicate even after he allowed him to leave the label.
“I came to Boosie and told him I still wanted to rock with the brand but not signed to Columbia no more,” he explained. “I just wanted to rock independently, without a major label and Boosie was cool with it. He just wanted me to give him his profit and participation on the albums that I had left with him and I did.
“I was going to do that either way, whether we had a contract or not, because I had albums still left with him and he ain’t have to let me go. He ain’t have to let me go free and go sign a deal, you feel me? But he did. I respect the man and we got a different type of relationship. I’m still Bad Azz, though. I’m Bad Azz for life.”
