{"id":7355,"date":"2025-08-13T23:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ynw-melly-delay-steven-tyler-case-drake-lawsuit-more-music-law-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:03:18","slug":"ynw-melly-delay-steven-tyler-case-drake-lawsuit-more-music-law-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ynw-melly-delay-steven-tyler-case-drake-lawsuit-more-music-law-news\/","title":{"rendered":"YNW Melly Delay, Steven Tyler Case, Drake Lawsuit, More Music Law News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tT<\/span>HE BIG STORY: Is YNW Melly\u2019s double murder trial ever going to happen?<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rapper has sat in jail for years awaiting trial on first-degree murder charges over accusations that he and another YNW rapper shot and killed Anthony \u201cYNW Sakchaser\u201d Williams and Christopher \u201cYNW Juvy\u201d Thomas Jr. in 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, the wait will go on even longer. A trial had been set to kick off next month, but the presiding judge postponed it last week until January 2027 \u2014 a date that\u2019s almost eight years after Melly was arrested in February 2019.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTo understand why the case was delayed \u2014 in addition to the many delays that came before \u2014 go read our full story here.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther top stories this week\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAGE APPROPRIATE<\/strong> \u2013 A woman suing Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler in Los Angeles over accusations that she was almost his \u201cchild bride\u201d in the 1970s urged a judge to deny the star\u2019s efforts to dismiss her sexual assault lawsuit. Tyler has argued that the pair lived together in Boston, where the legal age of consent was and is 16, but her lawyers say he cannot hide behind another state\u2019s laws to avoid a California case.<\/p>\n

\n\tBUT HIS EMAILS<\/strong> \u2013 Drake\u2019s lawyers demanded access to a huge swath of evidence in his lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar diss track \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d including Lamar\u2019s record deal and CEO Lucian Grainge<\/strong>\u2019s emails about the song: \u201cUMG\u2019s insistence on shielding Grainge from document discovery is unfair, unwarranted and inconsistent with fundamental principles of discovery,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tMERCH MATCH<\/strong> \u2013 YoungBoy Never Broke Again was hit with a lawsuit for allegedly trying to cut out his merch partner, Westside Merchandising, ahead of his first-ever headlining tour that\u2019s set to kick off in September. The company says it gave him a $1 million advance and that he cannot back out of the deal now, just as he\u2019s about to begin a lucrative run of concerts.<\/p>\n

\n\tPRIVATE EYES<\/strong> \u2013 A dispute between Hall & Oates duo Daryl Hall and John Oates was resolved via private arbitration, ending a bitter legal battle over Oates\u2019 plan to sell his half of their joint venture to Primary Wave. The confidential proceedings, disclosed in a public court filing, mean there is little known about the terms of the resolution \u2014 including whether the Primary Wave deal is going through.<\/p>\n

\n\tTORY LANES APPEAL<\/strong> \u2013 Tory Lanez lost two of his appeals seeking to overturn his convictions for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020, with judges rejecting his argument that the gun allegedly used in the crime had gone \u201cmissing.\u201d The rulings, which also rejected claims about new testimony from a bodyguard, still leave Lanez with his pending direct appeal of the 2022 guilty verdicts, which saw him sentenced to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n

\n\tTRIAL LOOMING<\/strong> \u2013 Metro Boomin\u2019s civil rape lawsuit will go to trial in September after lawyers for both him and accuser Vanessa LeMaistre told a judge that settlement negotiations had been \u201cunsuccessful.\u201d LeMaistre claims the superstar producer assaulted and impregnated her in 2016 after she ingested Xanax and alcohol in Metro\u2019s studio during a recording session.<\/p>\n

\n\tNO CHARGES <\/strong>\u2013 Soulja Boy was released from custody following his arrest during a traffic stop in Los Angeles, with prosecutors citing insufficient evidence to charge the 35-year-old \u201cCrank That\u201d rapper with being a felon in possession of a firearm. His lawyer confirmed the move: \u201cThe DA dismissed the charges because the evidence was insufficient to establish that the gun was in Soulja Boy\u2019s possession, custody or control.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBUSTA LAWSUIT<\/strong> \u2013 Dashiel Gables, a former assistant to Busta Rhymes, filed a case claiming the rapper assaulted him and then blacklisted him in the music industry \u2014 an incident that briefly led to Rhymes\u2019 arrest earlier this year. The star quickly fired back with a public statement \u201ccategorically\u201d denying any wrongdoing and threatening a countersuit: \u201cI am confident [the countersuit] will expose this for what it is \u2014 an attempted shakedown by a disgruntled former assistant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCAN\u2019T PAY THIS<\/strong> \u2013 MC Hammer was hit with a lawsuit claiming he owes $76,732.79 in unpaid car payments on a Land Rover and has refused to allow the car to be repossessed. The case is the latest financial issue for Hammer, a once-mighty rapper and dancer who famously declared bankruptcy in 1996 just a few years after the chart-topping peak of his career.<\/p>\n

\n\tNO SUE FOR YOU<\/strong> \u2013 A federal judge dismissed SoundExchange\u2019s $150 million case against SiriusXM, declaring that the royalties-collecting organization does not have the right to bring federal lawsuits: \u201cSoundExchange exists as a central clearing house for royalty payments, not a legal advocacy group,\u201d the judge wrote. That decision was news to SoundExchange, which has filed numerous such cases over the past decade. The group quickly vowed to appeal, saying the ruling was \u201centirely wrong on the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIRON MIC? <\/strong>Mike Tyson was hit with a copyright lawsuit by the producer of the 1998 Jay-Z, DMX and Ja Rule song \u201cMurdergram,\u201d who claimed that the famed boxer included the track in an Instagram video promoting his fight against Jake Paul last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tCARTEL TUNES? <\/strong>\u2013 The U.S. Treasury Department imposed harsh sanctions on Mexican rapper El Makabelico over allegations that his concert revenue and streaming royalties were being used to support a violent drug cartel. Treasury said that Makabelico, whose songs have been played hundreds of millions of times on Spotify, is a \u201cnarco-rapper\u201d and a \u201cprominent associate\u201d of Cartel del Noreste, one of Mexico\u2019s \u201cmost violent drug trafficking organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPRE-TRIAL RULING<\/strong> \u2013 As trial nears in the sexual assault case against Antonio \u201cL.A.\u201d Reid<\/strong>, a judge ruled that accuser Drew Dixon<\/strong> can keep seeking damages over commissions she supposedly lost when Reid refused to sign Ye (formerly Kanye West) and John Legend to the label. The lawsuit from Dixon, a former Arista A&R executive, alleges that Reid, who headed Epic, Island Def Jam and Arista over the course of a storied career, repeatedly sexually harassed her and then forcibly kissed and groped her twice in 2001.<\/p>\n

\n\tCOUNTERFEIT CASE <\/strong>\u2013 The estate of MF Doom filed a lawsuit against Chinese e-commerce giant Temu, claiming the company is selling counterfeit versions of the late hip-hop legend\u2019s iconic merchandise \u201cat a far lower price point and a fraction of the quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAI BATTLE UPDATE <\/strong>\u2013 Music publishers suing Anthropic for copyright infringement argued in new court filings that the artificial intelligence company illegally downloaded sheet music from online pirate libraries for its training models. The new filing appears to be a strategic move: Another federal judge recently ruled in a separate AI lawsuit that merely using copyrighted works to train models is \u201cfair use,\u201d but that downloading and storing pirated books is very much illegal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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