Another rapper is coming forward and detailing his time spent with Birdman and Cash Money Records. According to rapper Mikkey Halsted, a C...
Another rapper is coming forward and detailing his time spent with Birdman and Cash Money Records. According to rapper Mikkey Halsted, a Chicago rapper who was signed to the label, he was never able to see eye-to-eye with Birdman and also believes he is owed money. Halsted said that Birdman was constantly trying to change his style, even suggesting that he get neck tattoos. "We didn't see eye-to-eye creatively and he was trying to make me do something, be something that I wasn't," Halsted said. "I was wearing Polo, they only wanted me to wear white t-shirts and Reeboks. It felt like real prison over there. I was trying to explain to him that a clean-cut rapper will work." Where I'm from we do this, we do that, this is what we do. Why would you sign me if you want me to be like I'm from New Orleans? I can't go home and be around my friends if I go and change and act like I'm from you guys, from y'all. And he was like, 'You should go get tattoos on your neck,' and I'm like, 'Listen, f*k that, I'm not doing shit like that man,'" he continued. And while Birdman may seem like a larger than life character with a ton of money, Halsted said Birdman was quite cheap. The rapper detailed a time when Birdman demanded his change back after ordering McDonald's. "I've seen [Birdman] over there with $50,000-$100,000 spread out on the bed and people that's in his own family are asking him to give them McDonald's money," the rapper said. "He would give somebody $10 and ask for change back. So, that's the kind of person he was. It was just a lot of bad business man, that I've seen done and you know, it's only so far as I can talk about it ... until I get my money." Like many rappers who were signed to the record label, Halsted believes he is owed money and feels he is entitled to "probably half a million dollars." "I feel I'm owed probably a half a million dollars right now," he said. "After I saw what happened after Kanye got his money [Mikkey had to fight to get Kanye paid, reports DJBooth.net] I should have tried to get off the label. But I always had hope. I left over 75 songs [with Cash Money] because back then they didn't just give you the music. It wasn't like we were using email. We couldn't hear it. None of this s**t [the music I recorded] ever saw the light of day."
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