In 2020, West Coast legends — Snoop, Ice Dice, Too Quick and E-40 – fashioned an excellent group known as Mount Westmore.
TMZ experiences 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 may 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 larger merchandise corporations to be able to get them to signal with Westside Merchandising.
Mount Westmore claims of their lawsuit considered by TMZ that the rappers imagine they might’ve made a number of luggage going by way 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 supply accounting. The experiences they did learn stated the merch bought $808K in gross sales from live performance dates, greater than $90K from shops, and $13K in e-commerce gross sales,” TMZ experiences.
The rappers acknowledge that Westside paid them a big advance, however the rappers declare that they’re nonetheless owed lots 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 did not preserve their finish of the discount. Each circumstances are ongoing.” TMZ experiences.
“The countersuit is stuffed with falsehoods and fabrication, and reeks of desperation,” John Fowler, Westside’s lawyer, instructed TMZ.
“The aim is clearly to distract from their very own fraud and contractual breaches that are outlined very clearly in our personal amended criticism. So far, 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 shopper out of over $1.3 million, and triggered many tens of millions 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 defend itself from primary discovery, even accusing the opposing legal professionals of ‘borderline insubordination’ on the report. We sit up for attempting this case.”
