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The lawyers over at Cash Money Records are mostly certainly earning their keep, what with all the lawsuits that come in.
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Lil Wayne, Baby, Slim, and Mack Maine — the frontmen and founders of Cash Money Records and Young Money Records — have been sued a whole hell of a lot. This comes with the celebrity territory of course, but there’s question as to why bills don’t tend to get paid on time over there.
Cash Money records is worth a reported $300 million, and that’s not including what each of it’s stars are worth separately. There’s more than enough money to go around, right?
Hit the gallery to view some of their many lawsuits.
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Lollipop
Producer Darius “Deezle” Harrison sued Cash Money Records over nonpayment for his work on “Lollipop.” The suit was settled in 2012.
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EMI
EMI turned against Cash Money for hoarding …cash money, in the form of unpaid royalties. They owed EMI close to $500,000, and reportedly “ignored numerous communications” leading up to the suit. It was later settled.
Robert Poindexter
Producer Rober Poindexter filed a $600,000 (plus interest) lawsuit against Cash Money Records for using an unlawful sample of the 1971 song “Love Gonna Pack Up (And Walk Out)” in Bow Wow’s “Still Ballin’” from 2010.
Batiste Brothers
Cash Money was named along with DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Pitbull and T-Pain for “blatantly” poaching “beats, lyrics, melodies and chords “ from New Orleans jazz bad The Batiste Brothers.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh got the Cash Money runaround on more than one occasion, most famously over “A Milli” which he didn’t initially receive money for. He once told Vibe, “You have to sue these guys so that they pay up.” Smh.
Slim & Baby
Birdman and Slim were subsequently named in a sexual assault lawsuit, that involved one of their associates and a woman named Nicole Westmoreland. The woman says she was sexually assaulted by a Cash Money associate while she was doing a “presentation” at their studio.
Mrs. Officer
In 2009 Atlanta producer Michael Bradford sued Cash Money, and producer Darius “Deezle” Harrison (the same guy who sued over “Lollipop”) claiming they stole “Mr. Officer” from him.
Play-N-Skillz
Producer Play-N-Skillz sued Cash Money for $1 million when the label didn’t drop them any duckets for “Got Money.”
Jettsetting
This past August, Lil Wayne copped a $1 million lawsuit for an outstanding private jet bill. C’mon sir…
Kirkwood
David Kirkwood — a producer/songwriter — sued Cash Money in June of 2011, also over unpaid royalties. The money issue was over the song “Love Me of Hate Me” a bonus track off Tha Carter III.
Domain Deficit
In July 2014 Weezy and Young Money were sued over their domain name. YMCMB still owes $250,000 of the $600,000 they were supposed to pay for http://www.youngmoney.com.
The Flinstones
Done Deal Entertainment sued Cash Money for $15 million in 2011 claiming that they jacked the song “BedRock.”
