Little Simz sues producer and SAULT member Inflo over withheld £1.7million loan

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Little Simz has reportedly sued the producer and SAULT member Inflo over a £1.7million loan.The UK rapper – real name Simbiatu Ajikawo – first filed the claim against her former producer in January.

This saw her accuse him of withholding loans she had made to him for over a year, as well as claiming that he did not properly account for funds provided by Sony to cover recording costs.According to Law360, the loans allegedly total £1.7million.The producer’s real name is Dean Cover and he also helms the music collective SAULT.

He produced Simz’s 2019 release ‘GREY Area’, as well as 2021’s ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ and 2022’s ‘No Thank You’. The two also worked together when Simz was managed by an employee of his Forever Living Originals Ltd.

company.Outlets including Stereogum have shared that Inflo advised Simz to not continue working with Universal Music Publishing when her songwriter contract ended; instead, urging her to self-publish.Following this, she signed with AWAL – the Artists Without A Label division of Sony – at the end of 2022 and received a total advice of £2million for three albums to be made, as well as £625,000 for recording costs of the third album.She reportedly paid Inflo over £600,000 through a Forever Living Originals bank account before receiving the recording costs payment from AWAL.In her lawsuit, Simz says that she held the belief that any funds not spent on recording costs would be returned once the album was done.