Hold up....
Irv Gotti brought Nikki to cash money...And Irv told her not to worry about birdmans 1st contract cause she was very worried about it. Unless Irv been lying all these years....
never heard that, just Wayne hitting up Fendi after he watched her on one of the Come Up DVDs
the Contracts worth is based on the projected ROLL OUT BUDGET for each album the label would FEEL obligated to release
THIER is no CLAUSE stating when they MUST release a project or an artist
THIS IS A COMMON PRACTICE in MUSIC and BOXING
(artist wanna release albums..boxers wanna fight)
keep in mind like most recording contracts those millions are RECOUPABLE (U gotta pay that back)
u figure in marketing.
.promotion..recording costs and the advances for each LP... u figure just under 35 mill for each of the 4 LOs
keep in mind a lot of these LABELS INFLATE THE NUMBERS I.e (expenses) they CLAIM they will PAY OUT as an attempt to keep u in DEBT
This is why MICHAEL JACKSON AND HIS FAMILY insist that SONY open up those BOOKS so they can really see what SONY claim they were spending
and the only way to do that is with a GOOD LAWYER who is willing to LITIGATE as opposed to ARBITRATE like Weezys lawyer Ron Sweeney was doing cause he was nothing more than a CASH MONEY lawyer
and CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL is nothing more than a BANK
these ain't DEALS they giving out THIER BONDS no different than the slave bonds overseers bought back in the day
and u gotta work ur way out of freedom and that's IF massa will allow u to work
said he been known nikki, wanted to sign her but they wasn't hott enough and be pushed her to birdman bad contract and all cause the 1st one don't matter. 
150M for 4 albums.................................................................................... 37.5M an album
Albums are retailing for wat... $10? Itunes is taking varied amounts but I read somewhere 30%. Lets rock with that.
Just for that contract to make sense, :weazle: gotta sell 5x platinum just to recoup... ALBUMS, not SONGS
His top selling album was C3.... 4x platinum... 6 years ago
Even if its a 360 deal..........................................................
:weazle: gonna be performing at casinos, on cruise ships, record label exec's kids bar mitzvahs for the rest of his life
Then how is a 4 album deal worth $150M?
No Record Company is spending 35 million for a damn LP....
A five album deal on a major label:
If you want to see approximately how many records you would have to sell to get paid on a typical five album contract, enter the total amount of money for all five records into the advance slot. Then, $2.5 Million for the promotion slot and click 15% (weighted average over 5 albums) for your royalty. This works, because all records on most major labels deals are tied together; Debts from one record are attached to the debts of the others.
Advance: budgets for all 5 records
SRLP: 15.98
Royalty: 15%
Promotion: $2,500,000
Producer’s Royalty: 3%
Record One: yes
Packaging Deductions: 23.75%
Percentage of sales paid: 80%
Breakage: 10%
I didnt even know he made that damn much his whole careerJeeze, what happened in Manny's situation to end up 20 in the hole?
