Chief Keef’s $6 Million Interscope Deal Exposed, Rapper Can’t Spend A Dime Yet

24
Jan

Chicago rapper Chief Keef literally has money in the bank waiting for him as new reports expose the details behind his multi-million dollar Interscope Records contract. According to reports, the 17 year-old has a three-album, six million dollar deal with Interscope.

As reported by SOHH, Chief Keef may be “Finally Rich” — as the title of his first album proclaims — but the teenage rap star won’t be able to spend most of his big-money pay check until he turns 18 in August, DNAinfo.com has learned. Chief Keef signed a three-album contract — and a separate deal to control his own record label — with Interscope Records that could pay the South Side gangster rapper more than $6 million over three years. A split of future royalties could make for an even bigger pay day, according to court papers. The terms of Chief Keef’s record deal were made public in a Cook County chancery court filing that seeks a judge’s approval for the rapper to finalize agreements with Interscope. Court approval of the contracts is required by law because Chief Keef, 17, is a minor. (DNA Info)

Despite the huge contract, the majority of payments depend on how many albums he sells.

Chief Keef — who is currently locked up in juvenile detention for 60 days — also received at least $300,000 to cover the cost of recording “Finally Rich,” which sold 50,000 copies during the first week it was released in December. Chief Keef’s deals all depend on album sales. If “Finally Rich” doesn’t sell at least 250,000 albums by December 2013, Interscope has the right to pull the plug on subsequent album releases — two albums and a compilation of hits, according to the deal. In a separate three-year deal to establish Chief Keef’s record label “Glory Boyz Entertainment” — GBE for short — Interscope Records forked over another $440,000 advance. That agreement calls for both Chief Keef and his manager, Rovan Manuel, to each be paid $180,000. The deal calls for 15-percent of Chief Keef’s advance to be put in his trust fund, according to court papers. (DNA Info)

Last year, G-Unit’s 50 Cent revealed the label considered dropping Keef.

“There was some energy there in the [Interscope] building, they was actually thinking about dropping him,” 50 said in an interview. “I was like, ‘D*mn you can’t just like drop him.’ That’s what hip-hop culture is. It’s an opportunity for you to make it from anywhere. If you from the bottom right now you could listen to this music that comes on, write something and put them cards back they gave you and deal yourself some new ones.” (Hot 97)

Wow… Stay Tuned.

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