So J Prince Jr is Suing Drake

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A young Texas talent scout who discovered hip-hop star Drake is suing the entertainer's managers — charging they are cheating him out of his share of royalties.
James "Jas" Prince, the son of Rock-A-Lot Records CEO J. Prince, claims in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that Cortez Bryant, Gerald Roberson, Derrick Lawrence and their firms, including Aspire Music Group LLC, have refused to provide an accounting of what he is owed.
Prince's attorney, James McMillan, said his client hasn't received a nickel in more than a year even though Drake's albums have generated millions of dollars in sales. He is asking the court to appoint a receiver.
"We have no idea how much is owed because they are hiding behind one guy," McMillan said.
He said entertainment lawyer Ronald Sweeney represents both Drake's managers and the record company that pays the royalties.Those companies are controlled by rapper Lil Wayne and have sold 5 million copies of Drake's albums in recent years.
"It's one big shell game," McMillan said.
Court papers say that when Prince demanded an accounting, Drake's managers referred him to Sweeney, who promised to comply but never did.
When Prince asked Lil Wayne's companies directly for an accounting, they also referred him to Sweeney.
Sweeney declined comment.

In his papers, Prince said Drake himself is being cheated by his managers and is "on the brink" of suing Aspire and Bryant, who also manages Lil Wayne and Kanye West. He attached an April 2012 letter from Drake's lawyer, Robert Meloni, to Aspire which terminates Drake’s exclusive contract with Aspire.
In that letter, Meloni says that Drake's royalty account got nothing though his worldwide sales "are in excess of five million units." He said Drake had received "inexcusably delayed, incomplete, confusing and misleading" statements listing what he was owed.
McMillan said that Drake, who gave Prince a Lamborghini for his birthday in October 2010, still has strong ties to his client. "Neither one of them has been paid," he said.


Read more: Man who discovered Drake suing his management over royalties - NY Daily News

seems like its not between Jas and Drake at all but between Jas and Drakes management
 

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j prince jas or jr have never been indicted in shyt...legend some feds got killed in cars lil j owned in a drug deal gone wrong...n he aint see a lick of time..

goons whupped big mike ass...mike burned rap-a-lot shyt down..mike went to jail..nobody in rap-a-lot did a oz of time..

feds raided rap-a-lot offices a few yrs back....scarface gay ass ran to new york...lil j called a couple of congressmen..made a donation...fed case dropped...


aint too many ceos in rap got that much pull..

so if drake needs to be dealt wit...he can ...not one finger would get pointed at lil j jas or jr...pay kb tha kidnappa to hit em with them concrete bussas...

call it a night...kb do the time..get bailed out...paper waitin on em..

j prince brother I believe got caught trying to buy dope from a fed and he was driving a car owned by j prince car lot.
 

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HIP HOP WAR!!! Rapper Drake DROPS His MUSCLE . . . Breaks All Ties With J PRINCE . . . AKA Mr. I'm-KNOWN-In-The-STREETS!!* - Mediafakeout.com™ 2012


Drake snaked j prince outta his executive producer credit.

Charlamagne from the breakfast club spoke on that at the time when Take Care came out. Said Prince handled a lot of things behind closed doors for drake. He even called charlamagne directly to tell him to fall back when he was going in on him.
 

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Seems likes Drake just seemed to network extremely well in order to put himself on. This whole lawsuit situation should really debunk the "industry plant" claims right?
 

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Drake gave J Prince a fukking Lambo. I think that's more than enough of a thank you.

nikkas want in on everything these days.

spoken like someone who has never seen anything related to publishing on one hit record.

let alone the number of radio pop hits drake has had.

you can not be serious,..j prince ain't about to be plAyed like etta james, fool.

a lambo,..don't make me laugh!!!



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irrelevant nikkas always trying to take more credit than they deserve..what a shame


irrelevent,...

nikka j prince cultivated the entire south.

segregated it from the westcoast as its own region in the history of the business.

i bet you would not say that to no one in their camps face.


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I don't think you two nikkas know too much about how this street shyt work out here...no amount of lawyers or bodyguards is gonna save you from a nikka that "really" wants to get you touched. Them filing a lawsuit was moreso for "warning" purposes than it was for actually "going to court and working shyt out" purposes.



it is like filing a police report if you get robbed.

so when you see said party again.

if you got the right to carry,..you can legally lick shots and say you have documentation of a past transgression and were armed in self defense.

then deflect this is the same party that robbed you before.

trying to come back via another ambush and steam roll you.
so you may do something on the front end.
as you have to stay put at the crime scene afterwards amd turn yourself in, on good faith.

then, walk with no charges because of self defense, and proper paper work.

if you get a p card with proper certs and proper body guard protection licensing,..you can do this.



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