Rap mogul Bryan ‘Baby‘ Williams is dreading his hitmaking protegé Lil Wayne‘s upcoming jail time – because he can’t imagine life not speaking to the superstar when he wants to.

Williams discovered the rapper, who he considers his son, and admits Wayne‘s 12-month jail spell on weapons charges will be tough on him.

He has pledged to visit his protege at New York’s notorious Rikers Island prison weekly – and hopes that will be enough to keep both men upbeat.

He says, “I’ve been with him forever. It will be the first time in my life I’ll not be reachable to him.”

“We work together, we’re on the road together. We’re always together. I try not to even think about it… I’m losing something in my soul.”

And he’s not the only one worrying about the next 12 months while Lil Wayne is locked up – his Cash Money label artist Drake admits the prison sentence will hit home when the rapper is sentenced next week (08-Feb-10).

He tells Complex magazine, “We don’t really talk about it. It’s surreal to me still. I guess on the day that it really happens, I’ll start thinking about what I gotta do.”

“I wanna have a talk with Wayne and ask him what he needs from me.”

Via: ContactMusic

Cash Money Records founders Bryan “Baby” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams have reportedly expanded their empire by launching their own independent gasoline and oil company.

According to reports, the duo’s business is called Bronald Oil & Gas.

Bronald Oil & Gas are using several locations to develop oil and gas outlets, such as Osage County, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and unidentified Central America sites. The Williams brothers have issued a mission statement which lists key initiatives which they believe will be instrumental in developing oil and gas energy production in the 21st century: Forming strategic alliances with other operators to leverage their respective experience and strengths on development. Forming partnerships with service, equipment and technology companies. By partnering with such companies, some of our fields may be designated as “testing ground” for new and developing technologies.

According to the company’s website, there is also an international aim to expand the business.

These efforts have initially been focused on Central America, while Bronald intends to also carefully review other international opportunities in such places as Africa. Once again, Bronald intends to leverage its network of existing relationships to identify and secure development opportunities.

Earlier this month, Birdman spoke on Cash Money‘s ability to connect with younger generations.

“We believe in giving a youngster an opportunity to [express] what their vision is,” Baby said in an interview. “To corporate, you’re just an artist in a box. But when you f*ck with us, you inherit a family. Corporate will never be able to f*ck with us, because we’re in touch with the young world…I want to do more in the business than anyone ever did. I feel like people died for our success…Nobody else deserves this.”

He also spoke on branching out Cash Money‘s image by linking with artists like Kevin Rudolph.

“We’ve been trying to expand into rock for a long time,” Baby said in an interview. “It just never cracked. We didn’t have the system to pull it off. But with Kevin, Republic gave him a great window to do what he wanted to do. The new music is hot. We are going into all types of music from Kevin and Drake to Jay Sean. I believe in the music.”

Spotted at SOHH

And in other news, the song we posted yesterday, “Inkredible“, has been confirmed to be on Trae‘s upcoming album, Tha Truth, and will be the second single.

Shouts to DJSHAD

Here are lots more photos of Lil Wayne celebrating his daughters eleventh birthday party at the weekend in Atlanta courtesy of FreddyO. Guests including New Boyz, Cita, OMG Girlz, Tiny and T-Pain all attended Reginae‘s party which Wayne and Toya set up. We posted seven pictures yesterday, but you can view a lot more pics after the jump below (make sure to click on the images to view the bigger and higher quality version):

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Here are some pictures of Lil Wayne celebrating his daughter’s (Reginae) 11 year old birthday with his family. Guests included the OMG Girlz, Tiny, Toya, Lil Wayne’s mother Cita, T-Pain, T-Pain’s mother, Ne-Yo’s mother, and Weezy‘s one year old son who does look exactly like him at a younger age. You can view more pics after the jump below:

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Cash Money Records founders Bryan “Baby” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams have released a statement on Lil Wayne pleading guilty to felony gun possession and promised to continue supporting the rapper.

According to the statement, the duo’s close ties with Wayne will go unchanged in light of the rapper’s specualted one year jail sentence.

“The Cash Money family will continue to support our artist and friend Lil Wayne in his current court case. We have worked with Wayne since he was a teenager, and have seen him grow into one of the world’s most successful hip-hop artists, with a work ethic that is second to none. Wayne has our love and commitment during this difficult time. We always have and always will stand behind him. -Ronald “Slim” Williams and Bryan “Baby” Williams, Cash Money Records, Oct. 23, 2009″

Props SOHH, and below Charlamagne says that Lil Wayne‘s prison bid is ‘just what he deserves’:

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