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How Drake came up in the music business has long been a matter of legal dispute. This week, Aspire Music Group—a label purporting to have signed Drake in 2008—filed a lawsuit against Cash Money for its allegedly unpaid share of profits from recordings by the Toronto rapper. It is the latest in a string of lawsuits regarding Drake profits that involves Aspire.
According to a copy of the complaint obtained by Pitchfork, Aspire alleges that Drake signed an exclusive recording deal with the label in December 2008. The next year, Aspire signed another deal with Cash Money that would give Aspire one-third of the profits from any “commercial exploitation” of Drake recordings, according to the complaint. Aspire now asserts that it wants Cash Money to give a full accounting of Drake…