Billboard<\/a>, the songs under question include five tracks from Shakur\u2019s final album released during his lifetime, All Eyez on Me, including \u201cAmbitionz az a Ridah,\u201d \u201cSkandalouz,\u201d \u201cGot My Mind Made Up,\u201d \u201c2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted,\u201d and \u201cI Ain\u2019t Mad at Cha.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tIn the complaint, Arnaud claims that after he requested royalties in 2024, he was paid $91,000 by Amaru Entertainment, the company that manages Shakur\u2019s music assets, but was not given any royalty statements to validate the amount.<\/p>\n
\n\tA lawyer for Arnaud declined to comment to Rolling Stone. In a statement to Billboard, an attorney for Arnaud, Bret Lewis, argued that, \u201cAt a minimum, Amaru has failed to render statements and\/or pay sums due within the applicable limitations periods and continuing to the present.\u201d He added, \u201cThe precise amount owed will be shown according to proof after an accounting and discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tA rep for Shakur\u2019s estate did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn 2001, the late Afeni Shakur, Tupac\u2019s mother and co-administrator of his estate, sued<\/a> Arnaud for copyright-infringement and claimed he was planning to release, without permission from the estate, master recordings by Shakur that Arnaud produced while working for Death Row Records. That case settled out of court the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daz Dillinger is accusing the late rapper’s estate of owing him money stemming from more than a dozen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,7882,2973,277174,134,136,79999],"class_list":["post-665633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-controversy","tag-courts","tag-death-row-records","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-tupac-shakur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}