American singer and rapper T-Pain has returned to court against Konvict Entertainment, the record label co-founded by Akon, seeking $489,047 in royalties he alleges remain unpaid from recent music sales.
The Grammy-winning artiste, whose legal name is Faheem Rashad Najm, filed the lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia on September 4. Court filings cited in US media reports show that Konvict Entertainment is the sole defendant; Akon is not personally named in the case.
The dispute stems from $1,304,127 in royalties that Konvict allegedly received from a distributor in March 2026 for T-Pain’s record sales during the second half of 2025. Under his agreements with the label, T-Pain says he is entitled to 75 per cent of net royalties received from distributors.
Brandspur Brand News understands that Konvict paid the artiste $489,047 in June. T-Pain, however, alleges that this represented only half of what was due to him, with another portion of the royalty proceeds going to Konvict affiliate BuVision. His representatives were subsequently directed to pursue the outstanding payment from the affiliate but were unsuccessful, according to the lawsuit.
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The latest legal action revives a royalty dispute stretching back several years. T-Pain first sued Konvict in 2018 over his fifth studio album, Oblivion, seeking at least $400,000 over an allegedly unpaid advance as well as royalty accounting and payments.
That case was eventually resolved through a 2025 settlement. Konvict, which had denied liability in the earlier lawsuit, agreed to pay T-Pain $114,000, covering royalties collected through the end of 2024.
T-Pain now argues that the latest disputed royalties relate to sales generated in the second half of 2025 and are therefore separate from the accounting covered by the earlier settlement.
The singer is seeking the outstanding $489,047, along with prejudgment interest and legal fees. Konvict Entertainment and T-Pain’s lawyers had not responded to requests for comment reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
