Producer on Lil Wayne’s ‘Tha Carter III’ Settles UMG Royalties Lawsuit

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Darius "Deezle" Harrison, who co-produced the 2008 chart-topper "Lollipop," claimed helium was owed much than $3 cardinal successful royalties.

Darius "Deezle" Harrison performs with the Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp Allstar Alumni Band astatine New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival astatine Fair Grounds Race Course connected April 28, 2024 successful New Orleans, Louisiana.

A shaper connected Lil Wayne’s deed 2008 medium Tha Carter III has reached a royalties colony with Universal Music Group (UMG).

Darius “Deezle” Harrison sued UMG earlier this year, claiming the euphony elephantine owed him much than a decade’s worthy of show royalties for his enactment connected Tha Carter III, which deed No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 successful 2008. Harrison helped nutrient six tracks connected the album, including the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “Lollipop.” His suit sought much than $3 cardinal successful supposedly unpaid royalties from UMG.

Now, a Friday (Sept. 5) tribunal filing from his attorney, Christopher Brown, says a colony has been reached, though numbers and different woody presumption are not disclosed.

Brown and UMG did not instantly instrumentality inquiries from Billboard about the colony connected Monday (Sept. 8). Reps for Wayne, who is not named successful this lawsuit, besides did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

Harrison, who has 2 Grammy Awards for his enactment connected Tha Carter III, has spent years warring successful tribunal implicit medium payments. He claims that nether a shaper statement with Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment, the label’s genitor Cash Money Records (a part of UMG) is expected to wage him a 4% royalty complaint for his songs from Tha Carter III.

The shaper besides alleges that Cash Money owes him a 3% royalty complaint for assorted different songs helium helped marque for the label, including six tracks disconnected the 2005 Birdman medium Fast Money.

Harrison archetypal brought a national suit successful 2011 against Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.), Young Money and Cash Money, claiming he’d been underpaid. That lawsuit settled confidentially successful 2012.

This past May, Harrison sued erstwhile again, alleging helium was inactive being deprived of afloat royalties. This time, helium sued lone UMG, not Wayne, claiming the institution “has simply taken vantage of Harrison’s hard enactment and accomplishment arsenic a producer” without capable compensation.