It's money in, money out for Birdman and Cash Money as the label and long time boss have been sued for upwards of $3.3 million by veteran songwriters over unpaid sampling and songwriting credits just one week after a new Apple Music deal was signed. The newly filed lawsuit focuses on Lil Wayne songs such as "You" and "Certified," TMZ reports.

This past January, Cash Money was ordered to pay $1.14 million in royalties for songs produced by Jay Sean dating back to Dec. 31, 2012. A year earlier, Lil Wayne himself sued the label for $51 million, claiming that the delays placed on his album Carter V have cost him a large sum and that he's owed money as a joint copyright holder of all of Young Money Entertainment recordings. In August of 2015, producer DVLP sued Birdman for $200,000 in unpaid royalties, and in July of that same year, David Banner sued Lil Wayne for money owed from his work on “La La” and “Pussy Monster,” both of which appeared on Wayne’s massive 2008 album Tha Carter III. 

What's more, in May of 2015, Turk sued Cash Money for more than $1 million in unpaid royalties. The history of internal lawsuits within Cash Money is extensive and only growing longer as time goes by. Birdman is preparing to debut a documentary detailing his rise to fame via Apple Music this fall, capturing the mogul's long history of hustling both in the street and music industry.

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