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Drake settles Marvins Room legal squabble
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 12 February 2013
Drake has settled a royalties dispute with Ericka Lee, the woman who claimed to be an ex-girlfriend of the rapper, and who said she co-created his track ‘Marvins Room’, but had yet to get a proper credit or a cut of the royalties generated by the track, the first single to be lifted from 2011 album ‘Take Care’.
Drake didn’t deny Lee’s involvement in the making of ‘Marvins Room’, but said that she “consented to the use of her voice in the song for no compensation”, and that she only asked for a credit on the record under the pseudonym Syren Lyric Muse, which she was given.
But Lee’s lawsuit, called “frivolous” and “entirely without merit” by Drake’s reps, demanded a full co-writer credit on the track, a stake in the copyright and royalties from the record.
Drake didn’t seem in any mood to reach a deal with Lee when he formally responded to the lawsuit last March, while the rapper also indicated that his former collaborator’s claim that they’d had a romantic relationship was also bollocks.
But seemingly negotiations have been occurring between the two camps ever since and, according to TMZ, a deal has now been reached. The terms of the settlement are not known, but the lawsuit was formally dismissed at the request of both parties on 2 Feb.
All of which means we can get back to wondering what exactly happened to the apostrophe that traumatic night in Marvin’s room.
