Chance The Rapper is being sued by his long-time manager Pat Corcoran for $3 million in commission fees. According to Complete Music Update, Pat The Manager had been Chance’s manager since May 2012 and was quietly fired earlier this year. The two have remained mum about the dissolved relationship but a lawsuit was filed with the Illinois court system on November 30.
The contract gets tricky when Corcoran claims they had an oral agreement which would pay him 15 percent of Chance’s net profits and he’s suing the Chicago rapper for an additional $2.5 in “expenses supporting and promoting Bennett’s career.” Corcoran says the agreement was honored until his termination in April when he was cut out from Chance’s career.
15 percent of the sales Corcoran feels he’s entitled to are made up of music sales, streams, tour ticket sales, concerts, film endeavors and endorsement deals. The lawsuit states their relationship remained strong until 2019 when Chance acted on his own accord to record The Big Day in what Corcoran didn’t feel was a realistic amount of time to roll out an entire studio album when he was getting married during the summer.
Corcoran claims Chance relied on his father and brother Taylor Bennett to handle business duties after announcing The Big Day in February of 2019, rather than going through him.
“Given the significant amount of work, care and attention needed to produce an album”, the lawsuit states. “Corcoran expressed serious concern with the projected release date Bennett had unilaterally announced for the album”.
The suit cites “unproductive studio sessions” and a “freestyle-driven product of sub-part quality” leading to The Big Day‘s lukewarm critical reception. Chance’s busy schedule saw him get married a month prior to the July 2019 album release date.
The HipHopDX community gave Chance’s long-awaited studio album a middling 2.3 rating and was named to DX’s Most Disappointing Hip Hop Albums of 2019 list. The Big Day debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with roughly 108,000 album-equivalent units.
Corcoran’s attorneys also point to the album’s poor reception being the reason Chance’s U.S. arena tour supporting The Big Day was canceled. The lawsuit goes on to call out Chance for blaming Corcoran for the album and tour’s poor sales as opposed to recognizing “his own lack of dedication [that] had doomed the project.”
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He is now looking to recoup more than $3 million from Chance and invoke a “sunset clause” that entitles him to earn commissions for the next three years. Chance’s father allegedly offered $350,000 to settle the mess but Corcoran refused to accept and has gone forward with his lawsuit for breach of contract, unjust enrichment and a violation of the Illinois Sales Representative Act.
hes right about one thing, the album was terrible lol
R.I.P. Pimp C
He ain’t wrong, though. Album was Grade A trash.
The album was garbage
Why is chance suprised? He rly thought all the virtue signaling and sjw dick suckin was gonna equate sales lmaooo hes a lame
“The contract gets tricky when Corcoran claims they had an oral agreement which would pay him 15 percent of Chance’s net profits”
see this is where he dun fucked up.
Lmao yeah that’s all I took out of this article. All that defaming Chance won’t help you recoup $$$ from an “oral agreement” Now he’s fired and unemployed lol
That’s because chance is garbage. The only thing he has is his verse on ultra light beam.
But otherwise he’s mad pussie and those hats a dumb as fuck.
Fuck chance
How did it debut at #2 if it was the worst album of the year?
Because people had to stream it and listen to it first before making that statement. And almost everyone wants those 80 minutes back.
Where’s the lie
Oral agreement? Won’t hold up.
You right, Diddy made a bunch of them, now look where G Dep is sucking
Chance is making easy money now being a spokesperson and making commercials, he’s just a personality now. He should just be called Chance. Take that “the Rapper” shit down.
Biggest flop in the history of Hiphop and it’s not even close
YEAH THAT ALBUM WAS STR8 CHEEKS
Smdh of course his manager is white
So are the majority of Biden/Obama voters and BLM protesters. What is your point?
His white manager is seeking revenue off art that he did not create the audacity smh this has been happening to black artist for decades.
So if his manager was black then you wouldn’t have an issue with it? How about Chance should honor his contact and his word no matter what race the manager that he hired is… So this “white” guy put his money, time and effort into Chance’s career and he shouldn’t get reciprocated like he was told he would on top of a contract that was signed… Hmmm… interesting.. Not to mention Chance’s manager warned him that the project would flop, he didn’t listen to him and what do ya know…FLOP. What a dumb “white” guy…must be his skin color… ?
Yes only a idiot would think a ‘Oral Agreement’ would hold up in court. This man is getting cut out a family business and is trying to sue smh. These vultures aren’t taken serious in their own culture so they try to manipulate and rob black artists. Without black music to rip off you people would have nothing
Biggest flop in hip hop albums gotta be Snoop dogg’s The Doggfather