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Nelly is officially off the hook in the $50 million lawsuit filed by Ali on behalf of the St. Lunatics.
The St. Louis native was accused of allegedly withholding royalties over contributions the group made to his blockbuster album Country Grammar. However, three members of the group — Murphy Lee, Kyjuan and City Spud — claimed they did not consent to the lawsuit and pulled out shortly after it was filed last year.
Now according to Billboard, Ali moved to drop the lawsuit on Thursday (April 10). There is no word on whether a settlement was reached, however.
And while this is a good thing for Nelly, his legal team is actually asking the judge not to fully dismiss the case yet because they are looking to go after Ali for the “frivolous” lawsuit.
“Plaintiff’s counsel succeeded in its frivolous campaign aimed at forcing [Nelly] to spend money defending Plaintiff’s ridiculous time-barred claim. The Court is respectfully requested to retain jurisdiction and set a briefing and hearing schedule for [potential sanctions],” they wrote.
In the original complaint, St. Lunatics alleged that Nelly had “manipulated” the group into believing that they had been paid for their work on his diamond-certified debut album, but that was not the case.
The suit read: “Every time plaintiffs confronted defendant Haynes [Nelly], [he] would assure them as ‘friends’ he would never prevent them from receiving the financial success they were entitled to.
“Unfortunately, plaintiffs, reasonably believing that their friend and former band member would never steal credit for writing the original compositions, did not initially pursue any legal remedies.”
Shortly afterwards, St. Lunatics — with the exception of Ali — joined Nelly on stage at the 2024 American Music Awards before the trio subsequently demanded they be removed from the lawsuit.
In 2023, Ali vowed he’d never perform with Nelly ever again because of money he allegedly owed the group.
“I’ll say like it could be $90,000 or $70,000,” he estimated of the money he was owed in an interview with VladTV. “When that conversation happens, I’ll get a check. It’ll be $13,000. Now you’ll be fucked up because what is this $13,000 for? You owe me $91,000.”
He added: “What did you pay me for? At the end of it, it’s gonna be $66,000 because he’s far behind on the payments.”
The suit appears to have been ignited by Nelly selling his catalog to HarbourView Equity Partners for $50 million in 2023.
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Lil Yachty usually does a great job at feeding his fans new music. It seems like every other week he's got new snippets to tease or loosies dropping on DSPS whenever he feels like it. Just several hours ago, the Georgia multi-hyphenate hopped on over to his SoundCloud page, tHE CONCRETE LeaK sYstem, to share some long-lost recordings.
Per HipHopNMore, there's 11 in total and the origins of them range from 2022-2025. Some of you may remember that Lil Yachty updated this account almost a year ago with 14 tracks. Back then he unleased some unheard collaborations with his 2016 XXL Freshman classmate 21 Savage and singer Vory.
In the time since then, Yachty did drop off a pair of freestyles as well. But this is the latest major collection to be added to tHE CONCRETE LeaK sYstem.
Overall, the cuts here feel reminiscent of his earlier material in that they are more trap focused. However, the main some extra charm with most of the beats featuring some slightly left-field quirks.
They definitely don't relate at all to what Lil Boat has been experimenting with solo catalog wise. His 2023 album Let's Start Here. was a psychedelic rock exploration. Then, there's his 2024 collaboration joint with James Blake, Bad Cameo.
On that, Lil Yachty stepped into the London artist's soundscape in some ways by bringing his warbly singing voice to neo-soul, alternative R&B, and ambient pop.
But unfortunately for the 27-year-old, him sharing of all of this music with his fans has been interrupted to some degree. That's because Yachty is still going back and forth with former Concrete Boys group mate, KARRAHBOOO.
Her initial split from Boat's collective was a shocking development when it originally happened about a year ago. However, as the two rappers repeatedly went at each other's throats, we began to learn more. Yachty was claiming that KARRAHBOOO was incredibly disrespectful to those involved with the group.
Moreover, it led to him claiming that he was writing all of her verses and tracks. KARRAHBOOO has since retaliated, of course, but she really went after him recently. Just two weeks ago, she alleged that he mistreats women poorly overall. "U have a daughter and u treating women like this is mindblowing like I know u never see her but still that doesn’t make sense how evil this man is to women (not just me)," she said in part.
