Juice WRLD‘s estate is facing a lawsuit from the producer of the late rapper’s song with BTS singer Suga, “Girl Of My Dreams.”
According to documents obtained by TMZ on Wednesday (July 31), Joshua Jaramillo says he worked on the posthumous 2021 single and had a deal in place for five percent ownership of the song and one percent of the royalties.
However, he’s now suing for unspecified damages and a full accounting as he claims that he hasn’t been paid the full amount of what he’s owed, nor has he been given a breakdown of what the song has made – despite multiple requests.
In related news, XXXTENTACION and Juice WRLD are expected to collaborate from beyond the grave on not just one, but two, new songs.
Lil Bibby — who runs Juice’s former label home Grade A Productions — publicly teased new music from the late rappers on social media last month.
Posting on Instagram Stories, the Chicago native (who himself used to rap) posted a screenshot of a group chat including various members of X and Juice’s teams, with the thread titled “Juice wrld xxx.”
XXXTENTACION’s official Instagram account also posted the same screenshot.
DJ Scheme, who worked closely with both X and Juice before their deaths, further fueled excitement by writing on X (formerly Twitter): “Confirmed 2 Song[s] Are Coming Out.”
A collaboration between the two late rappers has been rumored since both men died, with XXXTENTACION being shot to death in 2018 and Juice WRLD passing away from a drug overdose a year later.
In 2020, DJ Scheme said he was “working hard to make this happen.” However, Juice’s girlfriend at the time of his death was not so certain a collaboration would happen.
“Doubt it’ll come out,” Ally Lotti said to a fan on social media. “I’m guessing if it was it would have already been. so idk but i have video from that night. J made two or three song a we were in a hotel room over seas.”
She continued: “I was there when he recorded the verse for jah. This happened over a year and a half -two years ago yal. . this wasn’t new info.”
After X was shot and killed outside of a motorsports dealership in Florida, Juice released a two-track EP paying tribute to the “Look At Me!” hitmaker, as well as Lil Peep who had also recently died.
Both rappers’ fans have received several posthumous releases, with two full Juice WRLD albums dropping in 2020 and 2021 and the same number of X projects arriving in 2018 and 2019.
