{"id":103644,"date":"2025-10-29T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/103644\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:51:09","slug":"camron-sues-j-cole-claims-hes-owed-500000-for-song-ready-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/103644\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam’ron Sues J. Cole, Claims He’s Owed $500,000 for Song ‘Ready ’24’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPlatinum-selling rapper Cam\u2019ron has filed a new lawsuit alleging fellow hip-hop star J. Cole \u201crefused to honor\u201d an agreement they struck over their song \u201cReady \u201924,\u201d which appeared on Cole\u2019s fourth mixtape Might Delete Later, released last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his complaint, filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court and obtained by Rolling Stone, Cam\u2019ron says he hasn\u2019t received any financial compensation for his work on the collaboration and was only credited as the composition co-author, not as a performer, even though his vocals appear on the track. The musician, whose legal name is Cameron Giles, is asking a judge to issue a court order that declares him a co-author of the sound recording. He also wants an order directing Cole and Universal Music Group to audit the royalties received for \u201cReady \u201924\u201c so he can be paid his \u201cproportionate share of such monies,\u201d the lawsuit states. (Reps for Cole and UMG did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.)<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the seven-page lawsuit, Giles also accuses Cole of reneging on other promises related to the collaboration. He claims his contributions to \u201cReady \u201824\u201d came with \u201ccertain specified conditions,\u201d including that he be granted \u201cfinal approval\u201d before the song\u2019s release. He says Cole also agreed to collaborate with him on a future single.<\/p>\n

\n\tGiles says he and Cole recorded \u201cReady \u201824\u201d in June 2022 in New York City, and that he told Cole at the time that the song couldn\u2019t be released until Cole performed on the future single with him. He claims Cole initially agreed but then pushed back when Giles asked him to perform on one of two songs that Giles had previously recorded. Cole allegedly told him he \u201cpreferred\u201d to collaborate on a song they created together, the lawsuit alleges. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe collaboration never materialized despite due request by plaintiff,\u201d the lawsuit states. Giles claims that when he reached out to Cole again in July 2023, Cole told him that \u201cinstead of collaborating on a future song,\u201d he wanted to appear on Giles\u2019 podcast, It Is What It Is. Between July 2023 and April 2024, Giles and Cole continued to communicate, but Cole \u201crepeatedly\u201d said he was unavailable to appear on the podcast, the lawsuit claims.<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\tCole subsequently released \u201cReady \u201924\u201d in April 2024, with Warner Chappell Music registering the composition but not the sound recording. Giles believes he\u2019s owed at least $500,000 for his portion of the song\u2019s royalties, the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit claims Giles also deserves attorneys\u2019 fees and any \u201cfurther relief as the court deems equitable and proper.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Platinum-selling rapper Cam\u2019ron has filed a new lawsuit alleging fellow hip-hop star J. Cole \u201crefused to honor\u201d an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[68088,7391,47491,146,85,46,68089,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-103644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-camron","9":"tag-controversy","10":"tag-courts-and-crime","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-j-cole","15":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}