Snoop Dogg & Ice Dice
Rap Group Concentrating on Ex-Enterprise Associate!!!
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Snoop Dogg and Ice Dice are going after a former enterprise companion for alleged fraud … TMZ has discovered.
The rappers — together with Too Brief and E-40 — fashioned a rap group referred to as Mount Westmore in 2020. They entered right into a licensing take care of an organization referred to as Westside Merchandising … which they declare made false guarantees about their enterprise with a view to have them signal with them over an even bigger merch firm.
The go well with claims Westside Merchandise mentioned it may make the rappers a ton of cash by way of retail shops it had partnerships with, and they’d not concentrate on strictly gross sales at concert events.
Snoop and Ice Dice mentioned Westside failed to supply accounting. The studies they did learn mentioned the merch offered $808K in gross sales from live performance dates, greater than $90K from shops, and $13K in e-commerce gross sales.
The rappers have been paid a hefty advance, however they declare Westside nonetheless did not pay tons of of 1000’s owed on the contract. They’re suing for unspecified damages.
Westside first sued Snoop, Ice, E-40 and Too Brief for breach of contract in November 2024.
The corporate claimed the rappers agreed to permit Westside to make all of the merch for his or her tour. Nonetheless, they claimed the 60-date tour didn’t occur, and the rappers solely carried out a handful of reveals. Westside mentioned it paid over $1.3 million, however the rappers did not maintain their finish of the discount. Each circumstances are ongoing.
Westside’s lawyer, John Fowlertells TMZ … “The countersuit is stuffed with falsehoods and fabrication, and reeks of desperation. The aim is clearly to distract from their very own fraud and contractual breaches that are outlined very clearly in our personal amended criticism. To this point, the opposite facet has misplaced each movement they’ve introduced on this case, and they’re attempting to cowl up the mounting losses by submitting a frivolous declare. The case is straightforward: the opposite facet defrauded my shopper out of over $1.3 million, and brought about many hundreds of thousands extra in damages for failing to carry out the providers they promised. The Court docket has repeatedly denied the opposite facet’s makes an attempt to protect itself from fundamental discovery, even accusing the opposing legal professionals of ‘borderline insubordination’ on the document. We look ahead to attempting this case.”