Mannie Fresh Opens Up About Baby, Hot Boyz & More

Mannie Fresh and the rest of the former Cash Money Millionaires are at it again. While some claimed they may not work together again, many of the fomrer CM members are back in the studio together. Mannie Fresh recently weighed in on this and many topics.

On Juvenile:

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“I’m executive producing Juvenile’s album,” he told MTV. “Most of the tracks is gonna be mine, the rest is gonna be me putting him with the right producers, making sure the fans get what they wanna hear from Juvenile…It kinda started off slow…Me and dude haven’t been working like that. If it was, it was one session, then he went his way, I went my way. We gotta grow back into each other and get that comfort zone. But the chemistry is there. My thing is we gonna keep recording until we get the songs we want. The chemistry is still there.”

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On B.G.:

“B.G., we’re working it out to work on his album as well.”

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On Hot Boyz:

“I’m hoping me, [B.G.], Juvie could all get in the studio and do something as well. We don’t even have to call it the Hot Boys. We just do what people know we can do.”

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On his upcoming LP:

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“I don’t want to call it a compilation, but it’s a chance for me to work with everybody I wanted to work with and put a project together…I’m actually signed as an act to Def Jam. And on top of that, I get to do whatever I want outside of that. It’s not an exclusive deal, I’m just exclusively signed to Def Jam. They understand the hustle of the game, my daily activities.”

On guests:

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“Akon, Tyrese, T.I., Jay-Z, Nas. It’s gonna be something crazy. Cats I never really worked with, so I’m gonna get a chance to give them my music and let them do their thing creatively over what I’m doing. And I’m looking for some new talent as well to showcase. It’s not just gonna be all established artists.”

On Baby:

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“I don’t have no hate for him, but I don’t think we gonna ever do business again. To me, it was a thing they’ve done to me that’s irreparable. But in my heart, I’m not the guy to say, ‘I straight hate you.’ I just won’t do business with [him]…When I did my [Cash Money solo] album [The Mind of Mannie Fresh,] it kind of got bad because I had situations in my life that was threatening my lifestyle and the way I was living and I was behind on a lot of stuff…I was like, ‘Dude, if I got a plaque on the wall that says I sold 30 million records with y’all, no way in the world it should be like that. I’m just one producer.’ It’s not like [the money] is divided between 10 dudes.”