Empire Becomes First TV Soundtrack To Debut At #1

Today in Tha Wire, the Empire cast describes tonight's season finale in 3 words, while the soundtrack makes history and more on Weezy's lawsuit against Cash Money.

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Tonight Fox will be the most watched network in the world. It's clear that Empire is the hottest show on television right now. The hit TV drama has shattered just about every network record that exists. In the meantime, the excitement is building as the season 1, 2-hour finale draws near. People are already talking about when season 2 and wondering what they're gonna do on Wednesday's until it airs.

To add to the Empire hysteria, the cast got together to try an describe tonight's dramatic ending in three words. Peep the video below.

If that's not enough, AllHipHop.com reports the Empire soundtrack is the number one album in the country right now. The Original Soundtrack from Season 1 was released March 10, 2015 and has also become the first TV soundtrack to debut at the top of the charts since Glee in 2010.

That may have a lot to do with who's on it too. The soundtrack features Mary J. Blige, Juicy j, Jennifer Hudson, Rita Ora, Courtney Love, Estelle and Empire cast members from Terrence Howard, Seryah McNeil to Jussie Smollett and others.

Get even more details below inside Tha Wire.

Finally, Complex magazine just released a video featuring hip-hop writer, podcaster and former entertainment lawyer, Reggie Osse' explaining why Lil Wayne is suing Cash Money. Osse' better known as Combat Jack, used to negotiate major contracts for artists like Jay Z and DMX back in the day. In the newly released video, he goes into detail on why and how Weezy came up with the $51 million figure he's suing Cash Money for.

At this point, it's unclear if Jacks is working with or for Lil Wayne on this, but he sure knows a lot of the lawsuit. For starters, he claims Weezy negotiated his contract with Cash Money at least three times. The first time was in January 2005, the second in 2006 and most recently in 2009. According Jacks, each time Lil Wayne's contract was re-negotiated it had to do with the rapper getting higher royalties, more money when he does duet albums and higher advances.

Supposedly, Wayne should've made $10 million on Tha Carter V album alone. Jacks says Tunechi's deal stipulated that he would get $8 million in advance and another $2 million when he completed the album. But that didn't happen. TheBoomBox reports court docs do show that Lil Wayne was only paid $2 million out of the initial $8 million he was own and that he never received another dime, even after he completed and turned the album in. That's just the half of it, there's an even bigger issue over the funds from Young Money.

So you'll know all the court documents from the lawsuit are available online, but unless your up on the legal terminology, chances are you wont understand much. Thanks to Combat Jack, he breaks it all down. Peep the video below for all the details.

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