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Black artists have spent generations creating valuable music catalogs, but ownership has often been complicated. T-Pain recently sold his publishing catalog and master rights to HarbourView Equity Partners for an estimated $100 million. He explained that streaming devalued music from a dollar per song to fractions of a cent per play without artist consent, so selling secured his family's future. This trend includes Tina Turner, Future, and Dr. Dre selling catalogs for substantial sums. While selling represents a personal business decision, the broader conversation should focus on ensuring artists have knowledge and power to control their created work and benefit from their legacy.

Federal prosecutors say they have recovered a signed release document and a cellphone video that support allegations that Pooh Shiesty orchestrated the armed kidnapping of Atlanta veteran rapper Gucci Mane to get out of his record deal.

For a show about dragons and rich white people arguing over inheritance, House of the Dragon has somehow become one of the Blackest shows on television. A Black father is trying to hold his family together. Black men are dealing with the reality that they are the sons of their father's Black mistress while he was going home to his white wife.

Chris Brown is fighting his former housekeeper's efforts to redirect his profits from his tour with Usher into her pockets as she tries to collect on her nearly thirteen million dollar judgment from a lawsuit Chris lost. Maria Avila is attempting to have all of his present and future income assigned to her including tour money and royalties until the debt is satisfied. Chris filed court documents objecting to these moves claiming the effort to grab all of his current and future income is way too broad and well beyond what she can get under the law.

Offset clapped back at Rylo Rodriguez after the Alabama rapper appeared to mention his rumored gambling troubles on a new song. Rylo's album S.K.A.T.E., released July 3, includes the track "Eliza (Bless Me Up)," where he raps, "Freebandz, I'm locked in with Casino, but I'm not Offset."