Cory Gunz Excited To Join Young Money, Explains Why It Took So Long. Says Lil Wayne Will Executive Produce His Album

Well, it took a few years, but Cory Gunz has finally signed
to Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment. We all thought years ago — in
the wake of Gunz dropping lyrics for Weezy's Tha Carter III blockbuster
"A Millie" (Gunz's bars never made the album as originally planned, but
it did land on mixtapes) — that Cory was going to be down with the team.
... But there was the matter of the Bronx native's recording deal with
Def Jam and then President Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter.

"[There
were] miscommunication issues," Cory said recently in New
York about why he's just now getting down with YM
and CM. "Me and other ventures, a bunch of
other paperwork. [Years ago] Wayne took time out of his schedule. He
was promoting Tha Carter II and he took time out of his schedule to come
from 'TRL' and '106 [and Park]' and come to Sony studio and lay the
verse. I was about 17 and it was for my first album, a song called 'I
Gotcha.' Shot out to Just Blaze. He took that and remixed it. Wayne did
that for free back then. It was a situation that was supposed to go down
before, but I was in paperwork with Hov at the time. One thing led to
another. I was freed up and he reached out by the powers that be and now
I'm here [on his label]. History is about to be made. He just kept it
100. I got nothing but respect for him. Free Wayne."

"Shout
out to Wayne," he added. "Shout out to the
whole Young Money family. Shout out to Mack Maine. Everybody. It's
definitely official. Young Money/ Cash Money. Shout out to Wayne for
giving me a shot. He kept it real. All I'mma say, that this is it. This
is what it is. Everybody just better get ready."

Cory
has been recording a bunch of material for an album that he had planned
to title God Forgives, I Don't. That LP is now going
to be an EP and will be preceded by a gaggle of mixtapes. Cory's Young
Money debut LP still has no title, but Weezy will steer the ship once he
gets home from prison later this year.

"Definitely.
Wayne is gonna executive-produce the album," he explained.
"I trust his insight. He's going to be overseeing
everything. I'm gonna keep doing the things I been doing. I think that's
what's gotten me noticed. I'mma just keep my grind moving. Whatever
ventures I can do, I'm bringing my family through. My whole team is
gonna eat. I'm just telling everybody to get ready."

Cory
will have no problem getting acclimated into his new family. He has
relationships with quite of few of his teammates already.

"I
haven't met Nicki [Minaj] yet," Gunz said. "Me
and Drizzy met a while back when they was doing the I Am Music Tour in
Arizona. I went over there with Shaquille, and Drake shouted me out
[onstage]. It was something he didn't have to do. The fact he did that
way before [I was on Young Money], I was humbled by that. As far as Jae
Millz, me and Millz — Pause — had a relationship before all of this. I
went on my first road tour with Millz. I talk to Chuckee and Twist a
lot. Mack, of course, I talk to. Gudda is family, Short [Dawg]. Shout
out to T-Streets too."

Source: MTV