Lil Wayne announced over the weekend that he had "signed a deal" with Jay Z, which had many predicting that Weezy's next chapter would be with Roc-A-Fella Records, once the current Cash Money lawsuit fiasco blows over. Alas, the rapper's manager clarified the comments on Sunday, noting that Wayne had signed a deal with Jay's TIDAL streaming service...in other words, something the world already knew.
"The Internet and blogs took his words out of context," Cortez Bryant told Billboard in an interview. "When Wayne was speaking about the partnership with Jay Z, he was speaking about his new deal as an artist owner with Tidal."
Wayne was making an appearance at the Summer Jam in Oakland when he declared to the crowd that he had "made a deal with my motherf*cking idol Jay Z." The TIDAL partnership was actually old news, as Weezy released the song "Glory" exclusively through the service last week. It was previously announced that Wayne had joined the collective of musicians—including Beyoncé, Jack White and Kanye West—with a part ownership in the service.
What label Wayne will finally release his next LP on remains a legal matter.
