A bitter feud between record producer Damon Dash and the estate of late Wu Tang Clan rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard is reportedly responsible for the holdup of his long-awaited posthumous album.
Titled A Son Unique, the disc was supposed to drop on Nov. 7 through Damon Dash’s record label, but according to the New York Post, a dispute over money has causing the album to miss its scheduled release date.
Dash paid ODB $1 million for the rights to release the album, but he owes "a couple hundred thousand more" on the contract to the estate, says ODB's former co-manager, Jarred Weisfeld, the Post reports. According to Weisfeld and Icelene Jones, the rapper's widow, Dash is refusing to pay the balance, and will not turn over documents related to the deal.
"If money is still owed to the estate ... Mr. Dash does not intend to pay them and will drop his plans to release the record," Jones claims in papers filed in Brooklyn Surrogate Court on Oct. 23 in an ongoing family battle over ODB's troubled estate. Jones is fighting with Weisfeld and ODB's mom and manager, Cherry Jones, for control of the estate.
Titled A Son Unique, the disc was supposed to drop on Nov. 7 through Damon Dash’s record label, but according to the New York Post, a dispute over money has causing the album to miss its scheduled release date.
Dash paid ODB $1 million for the rights to release the album, but he owes "a couple hundred thousand more" on the contract to the estate, says ODB's former co-manager, Jarred Weisfeld, the Post reports. According to Weisfeld and Icelene Jones, the rapper's widow, Dash is refusing to pay the balance, and will not turn over documents related to the deal.
"If money is still owed to the estate ... Mr. Dash does not intend to pay them and will drop his plans to release the record," Jones claims in papers filed in Brooklyn Surrogate Court on Oct. 23 in an ongoing family battle over ODB's troubled estate. Jones is fighting with Weisfeld and ODB's mom and manager, Cherry Jones, for control of the estate.
