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Nigerian superstar M.I Abaga and his record label, Chocolate City, are
suing American rapper Nas. They filed a lawsuit in New York State
Supreme Court, based on the fact that Nas didn’t deliver the verse they
wanted.
In the lawsuit,
Nas and Mass Appeal Records’ Ronnie Goodman are accused of duping
Chocolate City after they had paid the rapper $50,000 for the verse.
According to the lawsuit, in 2013, Nas and Goodman
entered an agreement to contribute a verse to a track from M.I. The
details of the deal were that Nas was supposed to mention “M.I,
Chocolate City, Nigeria, Queens, New York – Nas’s hometown, Mandela,
Trayvon Martin, and the struggles of Africans and African Americans” in
his verse.
Nas went on to deliver a verse but it didn’t mention any of the subject matter the record label had asked for.
Chocolate City requested Nas to re-record the verse,
and three year later, it hasn’t happened despite them delivering the
$50,000 payment. Hence, that’s why they’re now suing him, they mention.
In the lawsuit, Chocolate City is very complementary
to Nas. They called him “a highly respected lyricist in the music
industry” and wrote that they wanted a verse from him “because of NAS’s exceptional talent as a lyric writer.”
Unfortunately, according to Chocolate City, that talent and lyricism was not evident in the verse they got.
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