Former Cash Money Records producer Mannie Fresh has inked a deal with Def Jam that will allow him to sign and produce new artists for the label. Mannie Fresh appeared on New Orleans' Q 93 during The Wild Wayne Show and revealed that in addition to finding talent, he will produce for Southern acts on the Def Jam label. The platinum-plus producer also has the freedom to continue to produce for artists outside of the Def Jam label as well.
"Dude [Jay-Z] reached out, flew me up, we talked about it," Mannie Fresh said. "It was a nice little proposal and that's where I'm at now. He gets this era of Hip-Hop...What made me take the deal was they didn't want me to do this exclusive thing with them, they was like you can do what ever it is you do." During the interview, incarcerated former Hot Boy member Turk called in and revealed he has written seven albums worth of material since being sentenced to 10 years in prison, after being convicted of three weapons charges stemming from a Jan. 2004 shoot-out with Memphis, TN SWAT Team members. "I'm working on my appeal. I should be home this year," Turk said. "They not expecting the last Hot Boy to be coming the way I'm coming."
Fresh also disclosed a conversation he had with Lil Wayne a month ago. “We had some words. I asked him if he had a problem with me, because in all honesty, I never had a problem with him,” Fresh said. “So I stepped to him like a man, like, ‘Dude, the problem is not with you, so don’t take sides that don’t got nothing to do with you. I got a problem with another man, it has nothing to do with you.’” Fresh went on to say, “[But] he [Lil Wayne] said, at the time, he was trippin’ and he took sides. But he reached out for his new album, so hopefully we gonna put something together and do business.”
In addition, Mannie says he’s going to produce on T.I.’s next album and is planning to get in the studio with Nas in the next two weeks. He’s also producing most of Juvenile’s next album. “I did the whole Juve album,” he said. “I executive produced the whole album and I did about 13 tracks on it. It’s that Juve y’all wanted.”
Russell Simmons' "Get Your Money Right" tour
Russell Simmons' "Get Your Money Right" tour will hit the Max M. Fisher Music Center on Apr. 14 in Detroit MI. The free event will feature Mike Jones, Layzie and Krayzie Bone, Trick Trick, Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick Remy Ma and others. The "Get Your Money Right" tour is presented by Simmons' Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) and is sponsored by Chrysler Financial and Anheuser-Busch, Inc. The tour, now in its third year, educates students and community members about the importance of financial literacy. "One of the most urgent issues facing young adults today is the issue of having a firm financial foundation," emphasized Russell Simmons. "Hip-Hop is about transformation. The theme 'Get Your Money Right,' is not some rhetorical gesture. This is a real issue and we are talking about providing real solutions that attendees at the Hip-Hop Summit can use for the rest of their lives." For more information log on: http://www.hsan.org.
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