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So, Pat Corcoran, better known as Pat the Manager, sued his former client, Chance the Rapper. What makes this lawsuit so good for me is that I lived through it, and it\u2019s extremely validating. Like, we covered Chance extremely closely for the last few years until basically what Pat is alleging. We would just do a lot of news stories. You know, this guy\u2019s got a feature on this song, this guy\u2019s on TV, et cetera, et cetera, he\u2019s a real superstar. And then he drops the absolute worst album in The Big Day<\/em>, which is his debut album. And it\u2019s about getting married.<\/p>\n

So basically, Pat says Chance didn\u2019t try at all on that album. It was just freestyling a lot of the time, and he had a lot of hangers-on in the studio and when [Chance] announced the release date, [Pat] was basically like, you haven\u2019t even started this. Like, don\u2019t announce this. But Chance did it anyway.<\/p>\n

And it was funny to check our news story about it. There\u2019s like a 45-minute gap between when Chance says Big Day<\/em> coming in February and when Pat says it. And I\u2019d just like to imagine Pat hopped on the phone with him and he\u2019s like, \u201cHey man, you know, we go back a long way. Do you think you could delete that tweet?\u201d<\/p>\n

Basically the album flopped. He says nobody likes it. It sold terribly. He had to cancel his tour because nobody was going to go to it, and then Pat ultimately got fired.<\/p>\n

PP:<\/strong> Matt, can you explain that lawsuit for us? What is he suing him for?<\/p>\n

MS:<\/strong> The boring part of it is that Pat the Manager claims he is owed commission on Chance\u2019s streaming royalties, album sales, touring income, and some other revenues through a certain number of years. And Chance, as it\u2019s alleged in the lawsuit, has apparently withheld that.<\/p>\n

The real meat of it is that it really leaves the door open for anybody who makes a terrible album to get sued. I think that\u2019s really what we could all look forward to. So if anybody is listening and happened to work on, let\u2019s just say Jesus Is King<\/em>, and feels they\u2019re short 15 bucks or something: I say just sue them and say, \u201cNobody liked it. You owe me my money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anna Gaca:<\/strong> I find it refreshing to see someone admit that a tour was canceled because the album flopped. A lot of times you hear that on hearsay and they\u2019ll say, oh, we had scheduling conflicts. We\u2019re going to postpone it until after the next album. And it\u2019s nice to see that fig leaf removed in this case.<\/p>\n

MS:<\/strong> Well, it should also be clarified that Chance never admitted that. He said it was to spend time with his daughter and wife.<\/p>\n

PP:<\/strong> What is the worst lawsuit? I feel like all of these can be best and worst.<\/p>\n

AG:<\/strong> My pick for worst lawsuit is a little bit the opposite of the Chance versus Pat lawsuit, because it is just procedural. The facts of this case are so divorced from how I would call it, how it is on the ground. And it is Lady A, the band formerly Lady Antebellum, suing Lady A the blues singer, aka Anita White.<\/p>\n

You remember this story. Lady Antebellum decided that their name was offensive, a little bit belatedly, and changed it to Lady A and accidentally stole the name of this existing musician who went by Lady A. And they\u2019ve had sort of a contested relationship that devolves into, ironically, the band suing the individual musician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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