Legal Fight Over Drake Royalties Continues
An ongoing dispute over the massive profits generated by Drake took another turn Monday, as a young talent scout credited with discovering the hip-hop star filed suit in New York against Drake's record label, Cash Money Records.
April 17, 2017 at 06:03 PM
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An ongoing legal fight over the massive profits generated by Drake took another turn Monday, as a young talent scout credited with discovering the hip-hop star filed suit in New York against Drake's record label, Cash Money Records.
In an 18-page complaint lodged in Manhattan Supreme Court, James “Jas” Prince, the talent scout, and his father, J. Prince, the CEO of Rap-A-Lot Records, allege the “brazen and deliberate efforts of a record label and its unscrupulous principals to cheat plaintiff out of the consideration it was promised in return for furnishing the recording services of one of the most popular and financially successful artists in recent music history.”
The named plaintiff in the breach of contract suit, which seeks an accounting, declaratory judgment and unspecified damages, is Aspire Music Group. The small record label claims it entered into a 2009 contract with Cash Money Records mandating that it would receive one-third of the profits made from Drake recordings and a one-third ownership interest in the copyright to Drake's first six albums.
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