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Madlib, Producer for Kanye West and Mos Def, Sues Former Manager Over Deceptive Business Practices
Madlib, producer for Mos Def, Kanye West and others, filed suit against his former manager for financial mismanagement.
Madlib, producer for tracks by Kanye West, Mos Def and MF Doom, filed a lawsuit Thursday against Eothen “Egon” Alapatt, former manager of Stones Throw Records and founder of subsidiary label Now-Again. According to the suit, filed earlier today in the Los Angeles Court, the rapper/producer (real name Otis Lee Jackson Jr.) alleges that Alapatt installed Now-Again as an intermediary entity in existing management deals for Madlib music, licensing and merchandising, and exploited that management structure to bolster revenue for himself and his label. Though Alapatt obtained the notebooks by legal means — he purchased them from Doom’s studio landlord for $12,500 in exchange for unpaid rent — he announced plans to donate them to a hip-hop archive, which Thompson is trying to stop.
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