Birdman played a central role in propping Hip Hop to the top of the music business, and he has now weighed in on the current state of the game.
During an interview with Steve-O’s Wild Ride! published on Tuesday (April 16), the host asked him if the culture has become soft since he came up in the 90s.
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“Fuck no,” the Cash Money Records boss answered without hesitation. “We was cool back then without social media, now these young n-ggas killing — it’s a different operation. You just got to know how to adjust either way. It’s a different time, from then to now.
“Back then, we didn’t have social media, so if you got a problem with a n-gga, who gon’ know? ‘Cause you ain’t making songs about no n-gga, but nowadays with social media, you got a problem, the whole world gon’ know. It’s just a different time and I just hope it get better, bro.”
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He added: “I don’t want to see people losing their lives, ’cause that’s happening. Even n-ggas rapping are not rapping. People really losing their lives over social media.”
Listen to Baby talk about the modern landscape of rap at the 34:22 mark below:
To his point, Rick Ross dragged Birdman into his escalating beef with Drake earlier this week and joked about the businessman’s financial situation in a series of social-media posts.
Taking to his Instagram Stories in mid-April, Rozay aired out the mogul’s dirty laundry, claiming one of his homes went into foreclosure and that he has been “struggling” ever since.
“Your best friend, Birdman, his house went into foreclosure five years ago. You done watched that man struggle for five years and ain’t got that man a mansion,” the Florida native addressed the 6 God soon after Stunna publicly supported him in the ongoing feud.
The 48-year-old’s claim appears to check out as the Louisiana native was reportedly evicted from his Miami Beach mansion in 2018 for failing to meet his mortgage payments. He later sold the waterfront property for $10.85 million, which was almost $5 million less than what he originally paid for it.
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The Teflon Don MC continued his rant by giving Drizzy two days to put his money where his mouth is and help his former label boss, saying: “If you got more money than Rozay, what’s another $50 million, white boy? There’s one for $40 [million] on Indian Creek, there’s one for $50 [million] on Star Island. You got 48 hours, white boy.”
He then mocked Birdman’s alleged financial struggles once again by adding: “Soon as that pressure on white boy, he gonna go post Stunna. Stunna in that $20 jogging suit, I know the man need some paper … [Birdman] ain’t got that mark back. That mark ain’t fed him none.”
