In 2020, West Coast legends — Snoop, Ice Dice, Too Quick and E-40 – shaped an excellent group known as Mount Westmore.
TMZ reviews that shortly after forming the supergroup entered right into a licensing take care of an organization known as Westside Merchandising, which the group claims made large guarantees about what their firm might do solely to over promise and beneath ship.
Mount Westmore has filed a lawsuit claiming that Westside Merchandising made false guarantees to sway them away from greater merchandise corporations with a view to get them to signal with Westside Merchandising.
Mount Westmore claims of their lawsuit seen by TMZ that the rappers imagine they might’ve made a number of baggage going by means of the “retail shops it had partnerships with,” and that the merchandise wouldn’t be restricted solely to live performance gross sales.
“Snoop and Ice Dice stated Westside failed to offer accounting. The reviews they did learn stated the merch offered $808K in gross sales from live performance dates, greater than $90K from shops, and $13K in e-commerce gross sales,” TMZ reviews.
The rappers acknowledge that Westside paid them a big advance, however the rappers declare that they’re nonetheless owed tons of of 1000’s and they’re suing for unspecified damages.
TMZ notes that Westside initially sued Snoop, Ice, E-40 and Too Quick for breach of contract in November 2024, claiming that the rappers agreed that Westside would make all of their merchandise. “Nonetheless, they claimed the 60-date tour didn’t occur, and the rappers solely carried out a handful of reveals. Westside stated it paid over $1.3 million, however the rappers didn’t preserve their finish of the discount. Each instances are ongoing.” TMZ reviews.
“The countersuit is filled with falsehoods and fabrication, and reeks of desperation,” John Fowler, Westside’s lawyer, informed TMZ.
“The aim is clearly to distract from their very own fraud and contractual breaches that are outlined very clearly in our personal amended grievance. To this point, the opposite aspect has misplaced each movement they’ve introduced on this case, and they’re attempting to cowl up the mounting losses by submitting a frivolous declare. The case is straightforward: the opposite aspect defrauded my consumer out of over $1.3 million, and induced many thousands and thousands extra in damages for failing to carry out the companies they promised. The Court docket has repeatedly denied the opposite aspect’s makes an attempt to protect itself from primary discovery, even accusing the opposing attorneys of ‘borderline insubordination’ on the report. We look ahead to attempting this case.”