Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticHip-hop titan Kanye West, a.k.a. Ye, is the subject of a lawsuit filed Thursday that alleges he and his firms are holding out on more than $7.1 million owed to a production and design firm that worked on his “Donda 2” livestream release show, his canceled Coachella appearance, the “Free Larry Hoover” concert with Drake, several “Sunday Services” and the rapper’s studio spaces.The firm, Phantom Labs, alleges that, as the unpaid bills began piling up from multiple projects, it was assured that everything would be paid up once the star collected a reported $9 million fee for appearing at Coachella.
Once West pulled out of that headlining appearance with weeks to spare, the company says it was on the hook not just for the millions already owed for past collaborations but money it had paid other vendors for the scotched festival appearance.
Phantom Labs filed the suit against Ye and several of his companies — referred to in papers as “the the Yeezy Defendants” — in Los Angeles County’s Superior Court.
The production/design company is represented by the law firm of Howard E. King, a well-known L.A. attorney who has repped Metallica, Pharrell Williams, Dr.
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