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Lil Wayne hit with another Lollipop lawsuit
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 5 May 2010
Poor old Lil Wayne, I bet he thought he’d be able to finally get a bit of peace and quiet in prison, catch up on some reading, maybe do a few crosswords. But, no, everyone keeps suing him and it’s ruining everything.
As previously reported, producer Jim Jonsin is already claiming that he is owed half a million dollars in unpaid royalties for his work on Wayne’s track ‘Lollipop’, on which he is credited as a co-writer as well as producer. Now rapper Dirahn Gilliams is claiming that the same track uses portions of one of his own musical works without permission.
As is the norm in these lawsuits, Gilliams claims that he distributed his track, ‘Grindin Like A Goon’, to various record label execs in 2007, heard nothing back and then recognised elements of it in Lil Wayne’s 2008 hit. In court documents filed on Friday, which also names Jonsin, his co producer Darius ‘Deezle’ Harrison and writer Raz Zamor, Gilliams is demanding an injunction blocking all further sales of ‘Lollipop’ and the album it features on, ‘Tha Carter III’, plus a share of all monies earned from it so far.
In addition to this pair of ‘Lollipop’ lawsuits, Harrison, is suing Wayne over royalties from another track he produced, ‘Mrs Officer’. Oh, Lil Wayne, what are we to do with you?
