Philadelphia Weekly

Figga: "You the fireman? I'm a cold bucket of water," Gillie tells Lil Wayne.

After taking three calls about it, 
Gillie Da Kid could no longer ignore the rumors. He picked up Lil Wayne's new mixtape Like Father Like Son and gave "Problem Solver" a spin.

"Gillie man I don't think you niggas should really fuck with me ... " So it was true: Lil Wayne--Gillie's longtime friend and labelmate--had dissed him. Gillie couldn't figure out why.

After having his album shelved while the label argued over publishing, Gillie left the Cash Money family, but maintained a good friendship with Wayne, the label's youngest artist. Wayne flew out to Philly to attend parties with Gillie, and appear on his mixtapes and DVDs, including the soon-to-be-
released Marijuana High.

"We was good!" Gillie says. "That's why this shit was a shock."

Gillie called Wayne twice. "He never got back, so I felt a little disrespected," Gillie says. "To me he wasn't a man. Why should I have love for somebody who don't have no love for me?"

Now Gillie's ready to let loose with the dirty secrets about how it really went down during his Cash Money years.

"I'm about to drop a bomb on your head, show the chinks in your armor, the holes in your story," Gillie says of Wayne. "I'ma pull the covers up over your head, homie. It's gonna be vicious. I'm ready to just ether you."

This "bomb" comes in the form of a track on his DJ Drama-branded Gangsta Grillz mixtape, coming this month. Drama--Philly-raised but Atlanta-based--is the king of mixtapes, putting out CDs that are oftentimes more anticipated than artists' actual albums. Gillie is the first Philly artist to get the Gangsta Grillz treatment, and he's making the most of it.

"I say a lot of shit," Gillie says, dropping a little preview:

"Goddamn Dwayne Carter/ You kissed Stunna in his mouth/ Fuck you, Birdman daughter/ You mention my name, you know Philly way hard/ You ain't Birdman Junior, nigga you Gillie J-R."

Gillie, 28, is Philly's biggest underground rapper. The Gangsta Grillz release is sure to blow his street buzz bigger than it's ever been.

Why do you think Lil Wayne put that diss out there?

"I don't know. Truly, I think Stunna [Cash Money's multimillionaire co-founder Brian 'Baby' Williams, aka the Birdman, aka No. 1 Stunna] put him up to it. I know the real Lil Wayne. I know there's too many drugs, too many E pills, too much cocaine. You know Shorty got real problems because he don't really have no money. I did two and a half years around Cash Money. They was fuckin' Shorty in the ass--raw, with no rubber. He probably caught on--that's when he tried to go with Jay-Z but he was still under contract--so they were like, 'All right, we gonna make things better. We'll give you a title--you the president--and we'll shoot you a couple dollars.' The whole treatment: She run her mouth, give her a couple dollars, send her to the mall to shut her up until she run her mouth again."

Why did your album never come out on Cash Money?

"Because I wasn't willing to sell them no publishing. But you deal with a lot of other selfish reasons. Any hot record I ever turned in, Stunna wanted to be on it. The bitch wants to be on it just in case you shoot a video for it. He's a selfish bitch. He owes Mannie Fresh a shitload of money, and instead of being a man and paying him, he let him leave."

You were on good terms there?

"Yeah. I had a good relationship with everybody. They wanted to buy 50 percent of my publishing, but they didn't want to give me $2 million. They didn't want to give me no million dollars. I gave them a number."

What was the number?