Waka Flocka recently appeared with Akademiks on his Off The Record podcast where he opened up about some of the label woes he dealt with early on in his career.
He spoke specifically about the shady dealings that eventually led to the departure of Gucci Mane, Nicki Minaj, and French Montana from Mizzay Entertainment, the label headed by his mother Debra Antney. While it was known that Antney managed the aforementioned acts, Waka said he believes labels sabotaged his mother's chance to actually sign those would-be towering figures.
“The labels are vicious man, that’s all I can tell y’all,” Waka said. “Watch who you come in with because they’ll separate your whole crew to make somebody a villain to get the prize so they could take over.”
When asked to elaborate, Waka continued:
“It was me, Nicki, Gucci, [OJ Da Juiceman], [French Montana], my mother,” Waka began. “Nicki go to my mother and say ‘Deb, you don’t need nobody but me and Waka,’ right? Boom. I watched another figure come around Nicki...Nicki was like, ‘Fuck it, I see what’s going on.’ Nicki seen it and was like, ‘Yo Deb, they coming for you. Everybody else ain’t loyal’ type shit. Smart girl.”
Waka also noted how Coach K of Quality Control factored into the whole story:
“So I watch a guy by the name of Coach K come over,” he said. “Coach is on Jeezy’s side, so how the fuck you coming over here with Gucci? That’s how I’m thinking, right? But Coach works for the label. We don’t know that. He come work with us. Next thing you know, French goes over there with Nicki, they get lit. That’s fire, French did it for his career, it’s lit, right? But for n***as to turn around and act like nobody helped y’all n***as or built y’all? Y’all lame as fuck, right?”
He also accused music executives Joie Manda and Todd Moscowitz of “living off the fame of what my mama built.”
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