In 2009, Drake signed a deal with Cash Money Records that gave the label full ownership of every song he would ever record under the contract. For over a decade, albums like "Take Care," "Nothing Was the Same" and "Views" generated hundreds of millions in revenue, but the masters belonged to Cash Money founder Birdman. When a label owns your masters, every dollar flows to them first. The artist typically sees less than 20 cents on every dollar earned. Meanwhile, Drake watched his own mentor Lil Wayne sue Birdman for $51 million in 2015 over unpaid royalties, and he was stuck delivering hits to the same label Wayne was taking to court. On "Scorpion" in 2018, his final album under the contract, he made his intentions clear in a single bar. Four years later he signed a reported $400 million deal directly with Universal Music Group and secured ownership of his masters. Every song on the three albums he has released since belongs entirely to him #reelheadline #pubity #viral