Mannie Fresh Talks Working With Lil Wayne on New Album 'Tha Carter V,' Maintaining A Relationship Despite Cash Money Feud

Back in May, Mannie Fresh confirmed that he was working on Lil Wayne's new album Tha Carter V, and now he's opening up about maintaining a relationship with the rapper despite a feud with Cash Money.

"We got great chemistry," the producer said during a recent interview with HipHopDX. "We've always been A-100 with each other, regardless of what was going on with me and Cash Money or whatever. We just picked up where we left off and we're doing music. That's what we're doing now."

Although Fresh says he's proud of their work, he opted to leave ranking to the fans.

"I'ma leave that one up to the people," he said. "I just know how to do good music. I don't know how to tell nobody this is the best album ever. I will let the people judge that."

Last month, Fresh spoke to HipHopDX about the development of Cash Money records. He once served as the in-house producer. Fresh opened up about working with the artists and spoke highly of Wayne.

"What was so incredible about Wayne, he always knew what songs were hits and would always come back around to it," Fresh said. "I might have played before and nobody said anything about it. When the room cleared up like, 'What about that beat? Can I get that? I heard that played three times and nobody did nothing to it, I already wrote the rap to it.' I'd be like, 'OK, let me see what you going do it.' And he killed that beat. Wayne was the first one there, last one to leave. That's the reason why the dude is where he is at right now, because of his work ethic. If you didn't show up, he had a verse for it like, 'Oh I got something for that.' If we're working on something and you're writing a song, I'm like, 'Who got a song?' Wayne would be like, 'I got a song.' So I'm like, 'Let me do you right now.' Every day he would be like, 'I got three songs.' Wayne took writing serious."

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