Lil Wayne’s Ex-Manager Reportedly Sues Rapper for $20 Million
Looks like Lil Wayne just can’t catch a break. According to TMZ, the rapper is reportedly being sued by his ex-manager for $20 million!
In legal documents obtained by the news site shows that Ronald Sweeney filed the lawsuit against the New Orleans rapper over unpaid commission. He claims Wayne initially hired him as his attorney in 2005 to help him negotiate his contract with Birdman’s Cash Money. The long legal battle eventually settled back in 2018, with Sweeney’s help. However, the lawyer-turned-manager says he was not fully compensated for his work in the Cash Money deal.
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In the suit, filed by his attorney Ed McPherson, Sweeney notes that Lil Wayne asked him to fire Cortez Bryant — Weezy’s manager and childhood friend back in May 2018 over a conflict of interest in a legal dispute involving Drake and Cash Money. Sweeney claims he did so, and took over Bryant’s duties, and got Wayne to give him a pay raise from 10% to 17% commission. However, he says Bryant and Mack Maine somehow conspired against him, which made Wayne fire him later that year.
It was even noted that in June, Lil Wayne sold his masters to Universal Music Group for more than $100 million. Though, Sweeney doesn’t seem to be asking for any money from that deal. However, he brings it up to point out Wayne has the cash to pay him what he claims he’s owed, TMZ reports.
Lil Wayne has not publicly spoken out on this latest lawsuit.
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