M.I Abaga and his record
label, Chocolate City, are suing Queenbridge legend Nas, real name Nasir Jones.
M.I and Chocolate City have
filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court claiming Nas didn’t deliver the
verse they wanted. In the lawsuit, which was filed in the New York State
Supreme Court, 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 Chocolate City had asked
for.The Nigerian label requested that the Queens rapper 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.
Check out screenshots of the suit in the
gallery below.
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