On Drink Champs, Irv Gotti explains why he is still holding onto Ashanti’s masters.
“I feel I was always very good to my artists,” he told NORE. “Artists have a way of getting money. Rule makes a lotta money doing shows, Ashanti makes a lotta money doing shows. So, what’s left for the guy who was the record label who helped make the record? How I make money out of this, is the masters. So, how am I supposed to feel when you want to remove that aspect? You really basically saying you don’t want [my children] them to eat.”
Gotti added that there “Ain’t no f-cking compromise.”
Irv has been dragged on Twitter for spilling 20-year-old tea about Ashanti.
He called some of the backlash, jealousy.
“People may be jealous of you, on the low,” he said. “I just signed a deal for $300 million. I know certain people who are friends—so-called friends—they may be mad at that … And that’s cool. We don’t need to be friends anymore. I don’t need any new friends or old friends who pretended to be my friend. They revealed themselves.”
