{"id":557435,"date":"2026-03-24T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557435\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:15:18","slug":"chance-the-rapper-awarded-35-in-countersuit-against-ex-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557435\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper Awarded $35 in Countersuit Against Ex-Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chance the Rapper<\/a> has won an exploitation countersuit against his ex-manager, Pat Corcoran. The legal battle began at the end of 2020, when Corcoran sued the rapper for breach of contract, claiming he was owed $3.8 million in unpaid expenses and royalties after being terminated by Chance in 2020. Two months after, Chance filed his own lawsuit<\/a>, alleging that Corcoran breached his fiduciary responsibilities, diverted business opportunities to his separate companies, and demanded and accepted kickbacks. The countersuit asked for at least $1 million in damages.<\/p>\n

At Chicago\u2019s Daley Center on Friday, March 20, the Cook County jury found that there wasn\u2019t sufficient evidence that Corcoran was owed $3.8 million in damages. After deliberating for two hours, the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a> reported, the jury decided that Corcoran owed Chance $35, and suggested Corcoran flip the internet domain name ChanceRaps.com, the website Corcoran once used to sell Chance the Rapper merchandise. \u201cI claim victory in the name of the Lord,\u201d Chance told the Sun-Times after the verdict was announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe respect the jury\u2019s decision, but the message to music managers is clear: Get it in writing,\u201d Corcoran\u2019s lawyer Jay Scharkey said in a statement via the Sun-Times. \u201cThe jury award of $35 speaks to how seriously the jury viewed Chance\u2019s case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper has won an exploitation countersuit against his ex-manager, Pat Corcoran. The legal battle began at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,43230,75,341,44,7604,343],"class_list":["post-557435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chance-the-rapper","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}