In a series of tweets Meek said, “I haven’t gotten paid from music and I don’t know how much money labels make off me. I need lawyers asap.”
He then followed up threatening to make public the details of his record, “ask the record label? How much have you spent on me as an artist? Then you ask how much have you made off me as a artist? I’m about to make my record deal public by Monday just to let the world see what these people on!!!”
ask the record label? how much have you spent on me as a artist? then you ask how much have you made off me as a artist? i’m about to make my record deal public by monday just to let the world see what these people on!!!
— MeekMill (@MeekMill) October 25, 2021
The I’m A Boss rapper then posted” imma war for everything that’s mine. Ruthless vibes”.
ima war for everything that’s mines all ruthless vibes!
— MeekMill (@MeekMill) October 25, 2021
Meek Mill who recently released his 5th studio album “Expensive Pain”, is signed to the Rick Ross owned Maybach Music Group and Atlantic Records.
In May DJ Akademicks took to Twitch to suggest that Meek and Rick Ross are beefing due to contract issues after it was reported that Meek refused entry to Ross into his section at LIV nightclub in Miami.
“There’s an artist who is signed to another artist, people saw when the artist who’s signed to the other artist was having a party, the artist they’re signed to allegedly tried to enter the party and go about certain places and I heard there was a big issue. One of your favorite artist who’s claiming that they lit, they a boss, they do whatever, they’re signed to another nigga. And allegedly, they beefin’ with the other nigga because they’re trying to get off the label” DJ Akademiks said.
After embarking on a career as a battle rapper and being signed by TI in 2008, Meek then signed to Maybach music Group in 2011 and released his debut Album Dreams and Nightmares in 2012. Shortly after he formed his own label imprint Dream Chasers Records.
Ross has not responded to the allegations of a rivalry between him and Mills since the alleged Miami incident, but over the years he has had words for Bryan “Birdman” Williams who reportedly owed Lil Wayne millions of dollars.
He released the song “Idols Become Rivals” on his “Rather You Than Me” Album where he lashed Birdman for his alleged unsavory business practices that abused relationships with Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled and other producers. In the epilogue for the song an emotional Ross in prose said,
“Can’t believe this shit, homieI still love you, niggaHow the fuck, nigga, you touch half a billion, niggaAnd your team starvin’, niggaYou on an island, niggaYou came to my city, niggaI let you in my city, niggaAnd what hurt me the most, niggaIs how you did my brother Khaled, nigga Khaled was loyal to you, niggaThe pain I seen in my brother’s eye, nigga FaceTimin’ my nigga, nigga, he took that to the chin, niggaThat’s why my nigga blessed That’s why my nigga Khaled blessed”
Meanwhile a number of international artists have been expressing the same sentiments in support of Meek Mill about not being paid or treated fairly by their record labels.
Keisha Cole commented on on the shade room under a post about Meek’s tweet, “Never received a check from any record label, period. But I just thought about that the other day. It’s nothing wrong with Obtaining Audit Attorneys so that you’re aware of where every dollar went. Trust me a lot gets “Lost in the sauce”
Tyrese also commented, “Most of us who were signs 20 years ago we should ALL DEMAND OUR MASTERS be reversed back to us…..Yeah I said it by Dec 2022 I will own 5 of my masters from releases over the years…Speak up on it or they will keep collecting off of your body of work.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/CVd9gibMoYf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
If Meek Mill follows through on his threats to release the details of his record contract to the public on Monday, he would be following the lead of Kanye West who did the same thing on his twitter last year. Kanye called for transparency in the music business and released the details of his contract with Universal Records.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1306286641141620737?s=20
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1306276339352174592?s=20
