Rapper NBA Youngboy is now the higest paid rapper in the world, according to new reports seen by Media Take Out. According to the reports, Youngboy just signed a $60M deal with Cash Money Records.
If the report is accurate, it would mean that Youngboy just signed the biggest recording deal in hip hop history.
But not everyone believes that the Cash Money deal has been finalized. Industry trade blog HitsDailyDouble pushed back on the report. While confirming YB’s deal with Atlantic was done with the release of The Last Slimeto, the blog denied he had signed any sort of new deal.
Media Take Out reached out to music executives who were not able to confirm the deal. But everyone we spoke to believed that the report is “100% believable.”
One top music exec told us, “Birdman has the money to make that deal, and it’s clear that he’s wanted to sign Youngboy for a long time.”
A partnership between Youngboy and Cash Money would be quite the Louisiana reunion. And Birdman and YB are tight — they dropped the joint tape From The Bayou last December.
Birdman has also been buttering YB up for a minute.
“I think NBA Youngboy might be the biggest rapper,” he said last year. ” I ain’t no ngga gonna be bigger than NBA YoungBoy. Numbers. Numbers don’t lie He the biggest YouTube artist in the world, and he behind a wall. When that little boy get his mind right, and come out from this bullshit, and understand who he is. Thug and all them 30. He 20. You put a ngga behind a wall, you making him smart. They making him into monster. NBA YoungBoy that ain’t normal. He special. I think he’s a billion-dollar n*gga. I tell him that. I talk to him every day.”
