{"id":671148,"date":"2025-05-24T04:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lil-wayne-producer-sues-umg-over-unpaid-royalties\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T04:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:42:59","slug":"lil-wayne-producer-sues-umg-over-unpaid-royalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lil-wayne-producer-sues-umg-over-unpaid-royalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne Producer Sues UMG Over Unpaid Royalties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lil Wayne producer, Darius \u201cDeezle\u201d Harrison has sued UMG over their alleged failure to pay him royalties for his work on Tha Carter III<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Harrison is a credited producer on six tracks on the hugely successful album including Billboard Hot 100 number one hit \u201cLollipop\u201d.<\/p>\n

In his lawsuit, he claims that UMG owe him a total of $3 million in royalties going back a decade.<\/p>\n

Harrison claims that per his contract with Cash Money Records, he was entitled to a 4% royalty rate for all of the songs he worked on for Wayne\u2019s classic album.<\/p>\n

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He also alleges that he is owed a 3% royalty rate from a second agreement he had with Cash Money for work he did on Birdman\u2019s 2005 album Fast Money.<\/p>\n

The producer previously sued Wayne, Cash Money and Young Money over his royalties in 2011 and this case was settled shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n

Harrison claims he began receiving royalty checks from UMG in 2012 around the same time the first lawsuit was settled but that this stopped almost immedia<\/a>tely.<\/p>\n

Neither UMG nor Lil Wayne have yet responded to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

UMG are of course currently being sued by their own artist Drake, who was also previously under the Cash Money and Young Money umbrellas.<\/p>\n

Drake is accusing the record giant of defaming him through the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar\u2019s chart-topping diss track \u201cNot Like Us\u201d.<\/p>\n

UMG denied the accusations and recently blasted Drake as a hypocrite for initiating the legal action given things he also said during his beef with the Compton superstar.<\/p>\n

In a bid to dismiss the case, UMG said: \u201cAs Drake concedes, Lamar\u2019s Super Bowl performance did not include the lyric that Drake or his associates are \u2018certified pedophiles\u2019 (i.e., the alleged \u2018Defamatory Material\u2019 that is at the heart of this case).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus of Drake\u2019s new claims\u2014that \u2018the largest audience for a Super Bowl halftime show ever\u2019 did not hear Lamar call Drake or his crew pedophiles\u2014betrays this case for what it is: Drake\u2019s attack on the commercial and creative success of the rap artist who defeated him, rather than the content of Lamar\u2019s lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n

They added: \u201cNowhere in the hundred-plus page \u2018legal\u2019 blather written by Drake\u2019s lawyers do they bother to acknowledge that Drake himself has written and performed massively successful songs containing equally provocative taunts against other artists. Nor do they mention that it was Drake who started this particular exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lil Wayne producer, Darius \u201cDeezle\u201d Harrison has sued UMG over their alleged failure to pay him royalties for his work on Tha Carter III. Harrison is a credited producer on six tracks on the hugely successful album including Billboard Hot 100 number one hit \u201cLollipop\u201d. In his lawsuit, he claims that UMG owe him a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/app.hiphopdx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/lil-wayne-reveals-tha-carter-6-features-teases-joint-album-with-his-sons.jpg?w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[72638],"class_list":["post-671148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-lil-wayne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}