In 2020, West Coast legends — Snoop, Ice Dice, Too Quick and E-40 – shaped an excellent group referred to as Mount Westmore.
TMZ stories that shortly after forming the supergroup entered right into a licensing cope with an organization referred to as Westside Merchandising, which the group claims made enormous 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 larger merchandise corporations with a purpose to get them to signal with Westside Merchandising.
Mount Westmore claims of their lawsuit considered by TMZ that the rappers consider they may’ve made a number of baggage going by 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 stories 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 stories.
The rappers acknowledge that Westside paid them a big advance, however the rappers declare that they’re nonetheless owed a whole lot 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 exhibits. Westside stated it paid over $1.3 million, however the rappers didn’t maintain their finish of the discount. Each instances are ongoing.” TMZ stories.
“The countersuit is filled with falsehoods and fabrication, and reeks of desperation,” John Fowler, Westside’s lawyer, advised 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. 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 easy: the opposite aspect defrauded my shopper out of over $1.3 million, and brought on many tens of millions extra in damages for failing to carry out the providers they promised. The Courtroom has repeatedly denied the opposite aspect’s makes an attempt to defend itself from fundamental discovery, even accusing the opposing legal professionals of ‘borderline insubordination’ on the file. We sit up for attempting this case.”
