Kanye West (Ye) reportedly owes ten producers money. West has faced several legal issues in recent months. Now, it looks like he could potentially face more sometime soon. As per a new Billboard report, various producers who worked on his joint projects Vultures 1 and 2 with Ty Dolla Sign allege that they’ve yet to be compensated. The first volume was released in February of this year, and the second dropped in August.
“We have clients who’ve produced music on the Vultures album(s) and have still not been paid for their services even though both albums have been released,” music attorney Bob Celestin alleged, per the outlet.
“Presently, we have no idea when payment will be made, which is so unfortunate and unfair. You would think Ye would be more sensitive to this issue because he is a producer.”
The outlet points out that these producers never signed agreements with Ye, leaving them unable to collect producer fees or royalties.
“We have no recourse besides to try to sue [West]… but that’s costly,” one of their attorneys said. “Legal claims against Ye don’t really seem to go anywhere,” another added. Billboard’s report emerged shortly after producer Digital Nas went off on the duo in a fiery rant. He worked on the track “Carnival” with Ye and Ty, and was upset he was left off the credits.
“I’m showing y’all this to let y’all know how many vultures are in this music industry […] These n****s are fighting over crumbs,” he alleged at the time. “‘Carnival’ made $47,000 publishing. These n****s is old as f*ck, don’t have no talent. But they use young n****s’ sound and then they try to say they did something on the record when they didn’t do sh*t!”
