Rapper Birdman Sleeps on $1 Million in Cash

Putting a new meaning on “keep your money under your mattress.”

ESPN’s Highly Questionable interviewed Birdman this week, and there’s a lot of Billfold-relevant information in there:

The interview reveals that Birdman grew up in a Boys Home, spent some time in jail, and came out determined to change his circumstances. “Once I learned about the Bible and went to jail, I realized I’m going to go out and do something different with my life. I’m going to use my mind.”

He got a $30 million contract at 19—“I just worked hard. I didn’t think they were going to give me that kind of money.”—and used some of his earnings to buy 50 cars for people he knew. At this point the interviewers chide him for being a financially imprudent teenager, but the 47-year-old Birdman’s the one currently sleeping on $1M in cash, so this financial advice seems a little misguided.

“I still sleep on a million dollars cash. That’s just a fatuation for me in life. I do that and I’m going to do that until I die.” The interviewers ask him to clarify, and he does: “I’m going to do that until I die. I got a million dollars on my mattress, under my sheets. I just feel the need to do that. I was fortunate to blessed to be able to do it and I sleep on it every night with my Versace bedspread on top of it.”

Watch the whole video. It’s worth it.

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