Young Buck: Eating Off Shows, Not Royalty Checks [?]

Young Buck drops a rather shocking revelation, he hasn't gotten any royalty checks since signing with G-Unit!

He doesn't say anybody's ripping him off but he does say this:

"A lot of times a lot of artists don’t recoup off of albums so a lot of times they never get to see the backend from that project. I’m the only artist on G-Unit that ever recouped off of an album meaning I went off on this "Buck The World" project not owing Interscope and G-Unit shit, I can say that much. I’m still waiting on a royalty check period, I never seen a royalty check since I’ve been signed with G-Unit. So hell yeah I’ll tell you one damn thing the show money is that good. I’ve never in my career cashed a royalty check, how you like that?"

Check out the article for more on his relationship with Jimmy Iovine, etc. but the biggest point I'm taking is that "the show money is that good".

This is strong support for the necessity of building one's live game as an artist and also suggests that other hip hop businesses would be making a big mistake by avoiding live events.

Via Nah Right Lite.

Update:
A bunch of hip hop news sites all say they've heard from Sha Money XL, Young Buck's Manager, or his publicist and that he's saying it's all untrue.  That Young Buck has received over $10 million in royalties.

You can search through the Google results for yourself and decide who received it and who just cut and pasted it and claimed they received it.

Yada yada.  Yo Raps, who ran the interview linked above, is based in Germany and doesn't have a direct email on their site.

More wasted time.