The estate of Tupac Shakur had a major victory last week, winning a six-figure settlement over unpaid royalties.
Back in 2013, Tupac’s late mother Afeni Shakur sued Entertainment One claiming they failed to pay Tupac’s estate royalties worth seven figures for 2007’s Beginnings: The Lost Tapes. The estate also sued for the ownership of the master recordings for all of Tupac’s unreleased music.
A court ruled Entertainment One must pay over six figures for royalties from the rapper’s posthumous releases and all the unreleased recordings will go back to the estate. Death Row Records initially owned the rights to Tupac’s music, then sold them to Entertainment One in 2006.
Afeni Shakur, who died in 2016, presided over her late son’s estate, but the case continued under the other estate trustees.