Cam’ron’s been hit with a lien, so if he manages to get any cash from J. Cole within the lawsuit he filed towards the Dreamville artist, he’ll have to pay that first.
On Wednesday (Nov. 26), photographer Djamilla Rosa Cochran filed a federal lien that has frozen any potential earnings Cam could obtain from Cole in his ongoing lawsuit towards the North Carolina rapper and Universal Music Group. Cochran’s lien stems from a $51,221.50 judgment she obtained towards Cam in 2024 for copyright infringement.
Cochran’s lawsuit stemmed from the well-known image she took of Cam at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in 2003 of the Dipset rapper sporting a pink fur coat. The model Dipset Couture continued inserting the picture on its merchandise even after Getty Images, which licenses the picture, issued repeated warnings about utilizing it.
The lien means if Cam wins the lawsuit towards Cole, a part of his compensation will robotically be forked over to Cochran.
Cam’s lawsuit towards J. Cole is presently underway. In the lawsuit, Cam claimed that he contributed lyrics and a verse to the monitor “Ready ‘24” from Cole’s 2024 mission Might Delete Later. In trade, Cole allegedly promised to both collaborate with Cam on one other mission or seem on Killa’s podcast It Is What It Is.
Cam claimed that after they recorded the tune in 2022, Cole failed to honor his dedication over the subsequent two years, claiming that he was unavailable for the podcast and by no means moved ahead with one other collab.
The courtroom paperwork do notice that Cole allegedly supplied to collaborate on songs that he’d already recorded, however Cam wished to work collectively on an unique monitor.
Cam additionally argues that he wasn’t correctly compensated for his look on “Ready ‘24” and wants the judge to recognize him as a co-author on the track. He’s additionally requesting full accounting for the tune’s earnings, which he estimates to be greater than $500,000.