Tekashi 6ix9ine faces more legal trouble as Danish rapper Sleiman seeks action over rights to unreleased song
Sleiman, a Danish rapper of Palestinian origin, has recently filed new court documents and asked a judge to take legal action against the jailed American rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine over the rights to his unreleased song, 'Red Bandnna/Black Hoodie'. The pair had previously worked together on a song called 'R.E.D'.
Scream-rapper Daniel Hernandez, aka Tekashi 6ix9ine, was initially sued by Sleiman over the publishing rights to the song eight months ago, but since the colorful rapper remains locked up for the majority of 2020 on a host of federal charges, Sleiman is unlikely to get due justice anytime soon. So prior to New Year's Day, according to legal documents, the Danish rapper asked a judge to make a default judgment against the still-imprisoned 6ix9ine, complaining that the rapper never responded to his original claim, despite being served legal notice in September 2019 by a court-appointed US Marshal. Sleiman also claimed that he had successfully gotten default judgments passed against all the other defendants named in the initial suit, and now the only judgment pending was Tekashi 6ix9ine's court ruling.
The original lawsuit was lodged in April 2019, when the Danish rapper alleged that he had struck a deal with the 'Fefe' singer in 2018 to contribute his vocals on their collaborative effort, a track made by Sleiman called 'Red Bandnna/Black Hoodie'. Sleiman claims that 6ix9ine had signed the rights for the music over to him after recording his vocals, so the song is rightfully his, and 6ix9ine was paid 88,000 euros (100,000 US dollars) for his time and effort on the project.
After the recording and producing duties for the song had been completed (which the Danish rapper paid for), Sleiman said he was about to get it released when Tekashi 6ix9ine's label, 10k Projects, acting on behalf of the incarcerated rapper, reached out to him saying that they had exclusive rights to Tekashi's creative work, so the track couldn't be released without their permission, even if the song allegedly "belonged" to Sleiman.
According to the court documents, 10k Projects also threatened to sue Sleiman if he ever released the track on his own. Naturally, this didn't sit well with the Danish rapper, who filed legal action in April 2019, claiming that he was owed the agreed amount of $100,000 and furthermore, that 10k Project's efforts to block the song's release was costing Sleiman a lucrative record deal of his own, given that he was on the verge of releasing the song before 6ix9ine's label interfered with his plans.
However, Tekashi's attorney, Lance Lazzaro, told TMZ today that no one had reached out to him regarding Sleiman's lawsuit, and had no further comment on the case.