T-Pain Files Second Royalties Lawsuit Against Akon’s Konvict

T-Pain is once again suing Akon’s Konvict Entertainment, this time for allegedly failing to cough up nearly $500,000 in due royalties.

Tallahasse-born T-Pain (real name Faheem Najm) just recently submitted the in-depth complaint to the Fulton County Superior Court, naming Konvict Entertainment as the lone defendant.

Clocking in at a healthy 80 pages – and following a similar action, spanning 66 pages with attachments and filed back in 2018 – the multifaceted suit covers a number of bases. But the short version is that Konvict signed T-Pain in 2005 and, with several contractual modifications having followed, allegedly agreed to pay the professional 75% of net royalties under the deal.

While it probably doesn’t need saying in light of the legal actions, T-Pain, who released projects including Rappa Ternt Sanga (2005), Epiphany (2007), and Three Ringz (2008) via Konvict, claims that the label failed to honor the agreement.

Previously, a 2025 settlement ended the prior complaint; Konvict reportedly paid T-Pain over $110,000 to cover royalties owed through 2024’s end. But according to the newer action, Sony Music’s Zomba, which also had a hand in the relevant albums, closed out March 2026 by paying Konvict about $1.3 million in royalties from T-Pain’s releases.

Subsequently, the Akon-founded label in June 2026 forwarded $489,047 to T-Pain; the sum, the suit emphasizes, represents half of the 75% share allegedly due to the filing party under the deal as well as last year’s settlement.

T-Pain was allegedly instructed to collect the other half of the figure from BuVision, the label operated by Akon’s brother Abou “Bu” Thiam. Unsurprisingly, in light of the action, BuVision allegedly failed to make the payment, and Konvict allegedly failed to remedy the situation thereafter.

All told, then, T-Pain is demanding $489,047 plus interest from Konvict Entertainment, which doesn’t appear to have commented publicly on the case.

In other royalty litigation news, July saw Sony Music and “My Own Worst Enemy” band Lit put a streaming-focused courtroom confrontation to rest. And in August, the same major resolved a separate payments case levied by Jermaine Dupri and So So Def Recordings.

Nevertheless, different royalties showdowns, each involving decades-old agreements or arrangements, are still unfolding between George Clinton and Universal Music as well as Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, to name some of the litigants.