after years of tensions with birdman and universal music group over unpaid advances and rights to his catalogue, lil wayne filed for lawsuit in 2015 initially for $51 million. in 2018, lil wayne and universal settled, which details lil wayne would receive over $10 million that failed to be paid to him, and young money's ownership would be transferred from cash money to universal directly. additionally, birdman's 49 percent ownership in young money would be transferred to wayne, which took effect on september 13, 2018.