Hot Boy Turk is clearing the air after Birdman’s rant at the Cash Money and No Limit Verzuz turned its sights to him.
The New Orleans rapper referred to as into Yung Joc’s The Streetz Morning Takeover present to reply some questions, beginning with why he wasn’t current. “I wasn’t invited,” Turk mentioned. “I don’t go where I ain’t invited and I don’t stay where I’m not welcomed.”
Host Mz. Shyneka questioned why Birdman selected to single out Turk for not attending the Verzuz, to which the rapper merely replied, “Because I’m him.”
He went deeper, reassuring that Birdman “got love” for him, nevertheless it’s a “strange love.” “People don’t understand our language, our slanguage. A lot of people probably took that as a diss, but I didn’t take it as no diss because that’s how we talk,” he defined.
As for Birdman saying, “We gon’ fuck with you when we want to fuck with you,” Turk had an evidence for that.
“He spoke for ‘we’ as the cast members,” Turk mentioned. “You can’t mess with me when you want to. You could mess with the fans when you want to ’cause I’m out getting my bag.”
And he wasn’t mendacity. Turk hosted a Verzuz watch social gathering at Houston membership Shades of Bleu, treating followers to a efficiency of his personal after his verses have been reduce from the tracks.
Turk additionally alleges that Lil Wayne wasn’t invited. Birdman did acknowledge Wayne in his rant, and the Cash Money aspect even performed “A Milli.” When requested what Turk thinks the “disconnect” is between Wayne and the group, Turk mentioned, “I don’t know. I mind my business and the business that pay me.”
Shyneka additionally requested if Turk likes B.G.’s new set of tooth, to which he jokingly replied, “I don’t even know who that is!”
He then obtained critical, saying, “That man doing his thing. Salute to all them guys. It’s all love on my end, bruh.” Turk additionally hinted at figuring out of the tensions brewing for a while, saying, “It ain’t nothing new. Like, it be new to the world. I be knowing all this stuff before, behind the scenes. It’s not surprising to me. That’s why I came prepared!”
On Saturday (Oct. 25) at ComplexCon in Las Vegas, No Limit and Cash Money went head to head, with each labels’ hitmakers exhibiting off their timeless catalogs. At the tip of the battle, Baby took the mic on behalf of Cash Money and went “off-script,” per Mannie Fresh.
“I was trying to do something different in the game,” Birdman began. “I started this shit young. I was a young man trying to get some money and not be in the streets.”
After shouting out the other original Hot Boys members, Juvenile, B.G. and Lil Wayne, the labelhead had some tense words for Turk.
“Shoutout to Turk,” he mentioned. “You a little bitch. You ain’t here, but fuck you. We gon’ fuck with you when we want to fuck with you.”
These tensions are nothing new. Back in September, Turk filed a lawsuit against tour promoters after being removed from the Cash Money Millionaires’ 30th Anniversary Tour for refusing to accept a pay cut. According to the rapper, he’s owed $300,000.
Turk alleges that tour promoters said his removal was safety-related due to his beef with fellow group member B.G., but the rapper argued that if that were the case, he would’ve also been booted from the tour but was instead kept on because he accepted the pay decrease.