Last year comedian Sommore and rapper Cardi B got into a nasty online spat after Sommore tried to warn Cardi to pay closer attention to her contracts [click here if you missed that].
Turns out Sommore was right...
Cardi B is currently being sued by her former manager, Klenord 'Shaft' Raphael, for breach of contract [click here if you missed that], and in her counter suit Cardi argues Shaft took advantage of her lack of education and inexperience in the music industry.
From The Blast
In 2015, Cardi B says she signed her deal with Raphael’s company — without a lawyer — which provided her former manager with a 20% cut of her earnings. She says he breached their deal by failing to provide monthly accounting, failed to appoint an independent business manager and for not providing her with adequate payments owed to her.
Cardi accuses him of putting an entity he controlled as a middle party between her and Atlantic Records. She claims the company collected 50% of Cardi’s record royalties and required her to sign all copyrights to the company.
The docs go on to state, “It appears that Plaintiff took advantage of an inexperienced young woman with considerable talent and charisma, but with a limited education who lacked experience in the age-old exploitative market of the entertainment industry.”
