and why Baby signs sooooo many damn rappers.

Said he really is on some pimp shit. The label basically pays him for pure numbers sold, so if ANY of the randoms on Young Money get plays, it all helps him to get paid more and more per year. He plans to shelf 90% of the rappers there, but unlike Aftermath where they did nothing at all with them, he allows them to at least attempt to make hits.

And with that....he appears in all the artists' videos..because he's able to charge that to them and pay himself just for his video appearance. Similar to how they said Diddy would change up one hi-hat and give himself producer credit...or how he'd do two "take that" ad-libs and then credit himself as an artist on the track.

It's even more to it that he explained to me...but I always wondered why he allowed so many random ass artists to be on the label, knowing they'd never come out or receive full promo.