Cash Money Records is a record label founded by brothers Bryan "Birdman" Williams and Ronald "Slim" Williams. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, and is distributed by Universal Republic Records as of 2011. Current CEOs are Bryan "Birdman" Williams, Ronald "Slim" Williams.
Cash Money Records was founded in 1991. Bryan Williams told HitQuarters the original motivation for starting the label:
"I was hoping it would get us ou...
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Cash Money Records is a record label founded by brothers Bryan "Birdman" Williams and Ronald "Slim" Williams. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, and is distributed by Universal Republic Records as of 2011. Current CEOs are Bryan "Birdman" Williams, Ronald "Slim" Williams.
Cash Money Records was founded in 1991. Bryan Williams told HitQuarters the original motivation for starting the label:
"I was hoping it would get us out of the projects and into a positive way of life. And we wanted to help other people get out of this poverty."
For its first few years (1992–1997), Cash Money played host to a number of local releases by artists, selling hundreds of thousands of albums without ever releasing a music video or having a Billboard hit. Some of the label's releases garnered some regional success in New Orleans, Louisiana, but the label was little known to the national rap scene. Artists on the label during this period included the group U.N.L.V. (Uptown Niggas...
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