{"id":170178,"date":"2021-02-04T02:09:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/migos-drop-lawsuit-against-former-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T02:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:09:16","slug":"migos-drop-lawsuit-against-former-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/migos-drop-lawsuit-against-former-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Migos Drop Lawsuit Against Former Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Migos Drop Lawsuit Against Former Lawyer<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"grid--item body body__container article__body grid-layout__content\">In July 2020, Atlanta rap trio Migos filed a lawsuit against their former attorney Damien Granderson, claiming that he \u201crobbed and cheated [them] out of millions of dollars.\u201d Among the suit\u2019s claims were that Granderson intentionally delayed the release of the group\u2019s 2017 LP <em>Culture<\/em>, costing them potential profit, and that he practiced law without a California license for five years. Now, six months after the original filing, Migos have dropped the lawsuit, according to <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click='{\"element\":\"ExternalLink\",\"outgoingURL\":\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/thr-esq\/migos-drops-suit-against-talent-lawyer?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\"}' href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/thr-esq\/migos-drops-suit-against-talent-lawyer?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>THR<\/em>, as well as court documents viewed by Pitchfork, Migos filed for a voluntary dismissal of the lawsuit without prejudice back in November. Today (February 3), they filed another request for dismissal, with prejudice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"consumer-marketing-unit consumer-marketing-unit--article-mid-content\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div class=\"consumer-marketing-unit__slot consumer-marketing-unit__slot--article-mid-content consumer-marketing-unit__slot--in-content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"journey-unit\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The original lawsuit\u2019s claims involved an alleged conflict of interest on Granderson\u2019s part. Migos claimed that Granderson never disclosed that he worked with Quality Control Management (QCM), before they began working with him in 2014 (the trio had signed to QCM the year before). At the time of the initial allegations, Migos and their lawyers wrote that \u201cfrom the commencement of his representation of Migos, Granderson plotted and schemed to betray his clients so he could take care of himself and QCM, regardless of the consequences and ramifications to Migos.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"cne-interlude-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>In the complaint, Migos and their attorneys also alleged that Granderson delayed the release of <em>Culture<\/em> when he \u201corchestrated a legal dispute with 300 Entertainment in an attempt to facilitate a move to a different record label, Capitol Records.\u201d (Migos\u2019 first two albums\u20142015\u2019s <em>Yung Rich Nation<\/em> and 2017\u2019s <em>Culture<\/em>\u2014were released by QCM and distributed by 300, but the group\u2019s <em>Culture II<\/em> was distributed by Capitol.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--in-content\">\n<div class=\"ad__slot ad__slot--in-content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following the 2020 lawsuit, Quality Control CEO Pierre Thomas responded to the allegations on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, writing that the company has \u201calways practiced honest business and complete transparency from the beginning when we started Quality Control Music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Migos, Damien Granderson, and Davis Shapiro for further comment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"cne-video-embed cne-video-embed--margins\">\n<div class=\"cne-video-embed__persistent-placeholder\">\n<div class=\"cne-video-embed__persistent-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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