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Cam’ron is taking J. Cole to court docket for allegedly failing to carry up his finish of the discount over their music “Prepared ’24.”
In line with TMZ, the Dipset legend has filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Dreamville star claiming that he appeared on Cole’s May Delete Later monitor in change for both a visitor verse or an look on his standard YouTube sports activities present It Is What It Is.
Within the two years for the reason that music was recorded, nevertheless, Killa Cam alleges that Cole has but to satisfy their settlement and has repeatedly rejected his requests to document a collaboration or be a visitor on his aforementioned present.
The Harlem native is looking for financial compensation for his contribution to “Prepared ’24,” asking a decide to legally declare him the co-author of the music so he can obtain his fair proportion of its proceeds.
Cam is demanding a full accounting of the music’s earnings and estimates that he’s owed at the least $500,000.
Neither Cam’ron nor J. Cole have but to publicly touch upon the lawsuit.
“Prepared ’24,” which samples Dipset’s traditional anthem “I’m Prepared” and includes a uncommon visitor verse from Cam’ron, is one in every of two collaborations between the pair.
They first linked up on “95. South,” the opening monitor on Cole’s 2021 album The Off-Season, with Cam delivering a sometimes braggadocious spoken phrase intro and outro.
In fact, this lawsuit isn’t the one little bit of controversy surrounding J. Cole’s May Delete Later. The mixtape, which dropped without warning in April 2024, contained a response monitor to Kendrick Lamar’s explosive verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” — marking the primary on-wax friction between the longtime buddies.
Simply days later, Cole apologized to Kendrick throughout his headlining efficiency at Dreamville Pageant and promised to take away the music from streaming companies — sparking combined responses from the hip-hop neighborhood.
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