Prodigy has reached a settlement with Universal Music Group after suing the publishing company in November.
According to TMZ, Universal agreed to give the Mobb Deep rapper $153,751.21 for using the group’s music and his solo work without permission.
Part of the settlement was that Prodigy, who is in the group with Havoc, will take to Twitter to say that the dispute has been resolved.
“My dispute with UMPG was all a misunderstanding,” Prodigy agreed to say, according to the case documents. “Thankful that we resolved it quickly and happy to be continuing my long-standing relationship with UMPG.”
The statement is more than 140 characters, the amount of space given in a Twitter post, so he will possibly break the statement into two posts.
At the time of publication, Prodigy has not posted the tweet.
(This article was las updated on November 11, 2015 and is as follows.)
Prodigy says that Universal Music Group has been using Mobb Deep‘s music and his solo work without permission, XXL reports.
The New York rapper spoke with the publication after reports surfaced that he was suing the label for $57,489.
“That’s like my lawyer’s fee,” Prodigy says.
He continues by saying the amount he and Havoc are owed is “definitely well into the seven figures. I don’t know for sure, but we definitely found a lot of money being owed to us.”
Prodigy says that he had his lawyers do a routine audit of Universal and found that it was not paying him or Havoc what they are due.
“We found out that they were doing things without our signatures, without permission,” he says. “There was a lot of movies and TV shows and stuff like using Mobb Deep’s music and my music and we found out that they were doing a lot of stuff without permission, so now it’s time to pay up.”
(This article was first published today [November 11, 2015] at 8:30 a.m. PST and is as follows.)
Prodigy is suing Universal Music for taking cuts from his solo work, TMZ reports.
Prodigy and Havoc agreed to a contract with the label as a Mobb Deep in 1995 when Universal was BMG. The group said it would give half of all profits to the label from its future music.
Prodigy says the contract did not contain provisions for his solo work, but Universal is still taking 50 percent of the royalties from his music and songwriting.
He is suing for $57,489 that he lost and attorney fees.
Damn…he suing for a little over 50 k and that includes lawyer fees and this is half of his solo effort profit? I can do the math. So basically over a 20 yr period this guy only generated 100k solo…aspiring rappers please dont quit ur day job
$57,489 is nothing..he should sue for more
SAYS THE BROKE INTERNET POSTER
ANOTHER BROKE NY RAPPER . NY THIS AIN’T NEWS . FOH
How is he broke when he’s always touring, still gets paid to feature on others stuff and ghostswrites
Where are your millions at?
SouthDolla, every time there’s an article about someone from NY the first thing outta ur mouth is NY niggas this, NY niggas that….. Bring ya wack ass to NY saying that dumb shit. It’s real easy to voice an opinion behind a keyboard. Fucking lame.
See that’s what happens to.them east coast artist they always gettin screwed….Us down south ninja are real hustlers we get our money independent….we get don’t split our money w crakas that’s why we don’t go thru this kinda stuff…Only east coast foos sell millions of records over period of ten plus years but don’t even have a million dollars to show for it..Gucci make more money than these foos while he’s in prison
Lol
Gucci dumb ass always in prison.that’s where his retarded ass spends all his money lmao
Hope he gets the money he due
Man, that reminds me, I gotta go dust off my Infamous album.
Only the strong survive, we livin this til the day that we die, survival of the fit!
Infamous is one of my favorite albums from that era, right up there with Illmatic. The follow up to Infamous, Hell On Earth, was still banging, although not as good. After that they went downhill in my opinion, Murda Muzik was just ok for the most part..
Wrong !!!…….1 hell on earth 2. Infamous 3. murda muzik 4. Infamy 5. Amerikkkaz nightmare 6. And the rest we don’t care about…..now go to bed b4 I slap fire out ur keyboard ass mouth….u DX fingers ass niga….ha!
Havoc even said Prodigy likes prison penis. How the hell he a gangsta? Gaysta would be more suitabl.
Hov gets more $$$ in his sleep than this fool got in his lifetime. Can’t wait to see Prodigy dance in The Nutcracker this holiday season.
If it was about money, Prodigy would probably be suing for more than 57k…..
Read ….well into 7 figures thats a million plus …btw NY is the biggest richest place no broke rappers on the eastcoast lol
That’s what’s up. Get your money P.
According to Mike Delorean, this nigga Prodigy caught the hepatitis while locked up, they call him “Hepatitis P”.. Go to Youtube and check out the video named “Mike Delorean Says Prodigy Got Hepatitis And Says Prodigy Can’t Come Back To Queensbridge!”.
What do that have to do w/ this article?