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TMZ reports a music producer, who's done work on three of Lil Wayne's Carter albums and several other tracks like "Fireman" and more, has filed suit against Birdman and his label for failure to pay-up.

Producer DVLP, one half of production duo the Doe Boys, has produced more than 20 tracks for Lil Wayne and says he's been given the shaft on payment for his work.  The super producer isn't just suing for his work with Weezy, but his production with a few other artists too.  According to reports he's looking to recoup $200,000 in unpaid royalties and production fees.  He claims he was forced to sue, after failed attempts to get the Cash Money mogul to pay-up.

Interestingly enough TMZ goes on to report, Birdman has acknowledged that owes DVLP some money.  That is based on series of text messages between the two men that site somehow obtained.  Throughout the texts the producer expresses his frustration over not getting his money, to which the Cash Money boss insists he will get him paid.

Ironically, #1 Stunna is suing the Tidal music service to the tune of $50 million for streaming Weezy's FWA Album without his permission.

And real quickly, AllHipHop reports as the N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton continues to set box office records, the legal fallout on real-life issues connected to the movie have begun.  As you already know, Suge Knight was arrested earlier this year and charged with one count of murder, one count of attempted murder and two counts of hit-and-run for running over Cle “Bone” Sloan and killing his associate Terry Carter.

Turns out, Sloan and Carter were advisers for the movie and were engaged in a verbal dispute with the former Death Row CEO, who wasn't about the way he was being portrayed in the movie.  According to AllHipHop, things went bad when Suge popped-up during a commercial shoot for the film and started a confrontation. Sloan told him to leave, but Knight met up with Carter and Sloan later that night in the parking of a Compton restraunt.  Another argument broke out, which led to Knight running over the two men, badly injuring Sloan and killing Carter.

Carter’s wife filed a wrongful death lawsuit suing producers of the film, also including Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, claiming filmmakers were aware of the tension and should have provided adequate security.  Both Cube and Dre deny involvement in Carter's death and filed a motion to be excused from the lawsuit:

These allegations plainly demonstrate that allowing Suge to remain at the base camp posed a serious risk that Suge could have injured someone at the camp — including Dr. Dre, Bone or one of the numerous cast and crew working on the film.

 

Certainly, the risk that Suge might leave the base camp and proceed to his fatal confrontation with Carter was no more foreseeable than the possibility that Suge would injure or kill someone else if he had been permitted to stay

Meanwhile, former TV personality, Dee Barnes is speaking out about the movie leaving out Dr. Dre's abusive behavior against women.  Barnes released an essay to let her issued be known.  She wrote, "the truth was too ugly" for an audience to see, but the movie should've addressed the way Dre attacked her and repeatedly beat his then girlfriend, singer Michel'le.

For a look at her essay, click here.  To his credit though, Dr. Dre openly talked about his past domestic abuse and the Barnes assault during an interview with Rolling Stone.  Let the drama begin!

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