This isn’t the first time that Akon and his former business partner have gone to court following the disruption of their business relationship. The pair has gone to court three times and Stephens says that Akon even sabotaged his relationship with Atlantic Records in order to remove himself from the clause in their settlement.

The clause was an agreement for Akon to pay royalties to Stephens for four future albums under a “major” label.

Reports from the court papers claim that the “Lonely” singer believes that he should not have to pay his 20 percent cut of the royalties because he is now under BMG Records.

On the other hand, Stephens wants the singer to understand that he’s not able to work his way out of the royalty payments since Akon breached his contract with Atlantic. Furthermore, he also says that BMG is “by any objective metric,” a major record label.

“Akon has spent the better part of a decade frustrating Stephens’ attempts to obtain large amounts of money which Akon unambiguously promised in contracts to pay Stephens,” read the documents, according to Page Six.

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