{"id":493994,"date":"2026-03-25T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493994\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:43:10","slug":"chance-the-rapper-wins-35-in-lawsuit-against-former-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493994\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper wins $35 in lawsuit against former manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago musician Chance the Rapper (born Chancelor Bennett) has won $35 in a five-year legal battle against his onetime manager, Pat Corcoran (formerly known as Pat the Manager). On Friday, a Cook County jury dismissed Corcoran\u2019s claims that the Coloring Book artist owed him $3.8 million in unpaid royalties and commissions and that Bennett\u2019s critically-panned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/music\/chance-the-rapper\/chance-the-rapper-the-big-day-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Day<\/a> was a \u201cfreestyle-driven product of sub-par quality\u201d due to rapper\u2019s insistence on rushing the LP\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>Corcoran sued Bennett in 2020 after the rapper fired him, claiming that he and Bennett had once agreed that he was entitled to three years of earnings after his firing. In 2021, Bennett countersued Corcoran for $1 million dollars, claiming his manager had mishandled business deals and attempted to collect kickbacks for his own benefit. Bennett\u2019s lawyers further argued that Corcoran had been overpaid by $312,300 before Bennett fired him. The two creatives had worked under an informal deal for eight years, and had served as posterchildren of an independent artist-manager partnership without record label interference.<\/p>\n<p>In a Chicago trial that combined the two suits, the court deliberated for two hours before determining that Corcoran owed Bennett $35. It further suggested Corcoran fork over the domain name to Bennett\u2019s website, ChanceRaps.com, on which the manager once sold Bennett\u2019s merch. The $35 appeared to be a symbolic gesture signaling the court\u2019s endorsement of Bennett\u2019s argument. As neither party had ever put any of their dealings in writing, it proved difficult for the jury to agree that significant monetary harm had occurred.<\/p>\n<p>After the verdict was announced, Jay Scharkey, one of Corcoran\u2019s lawyers, called the decision \u201csplit\u201d and urged music managers to \u201cget it in writing.\u201d Scharkey told the Chicago Sun-Times, \u201cThe jury award of $35 speaks to how seriously the jury viewed Chance\u2019s case.\u201d But Chance was undeterred in his own interview with the Sun-Times, as the faith-inspired rapper preached unto a reporter as he left the courtroom, \u201cI claim victory in the name of the Lord.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago musician Chance the Rapper (born Chancelor Bennett) has won $35 in a five-year legal battle against his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}