Jermaine Dupri and Tha Dogg Pound‘s Daz Dillinger have both been named in a $250,000 defamation suit. Documents filed in Georgia’s Northern District Court on Sept. 3 list Jermaine Dupri Mauldin and Delmar Arnaud as defendants in a case filed by Aika Kendrick. The official grievance is listed as intellectual property/copyright infringement. Kendrick is suing on the grounds of negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and copyright infringement.
The suit stems from a recorded conversation found at the beginning of “The One,” a song on Daz’s 2006 album So So Gangsta. The album was Daz’s only work recorded under Dupri‘s So So Def/Virgin imprint. Virgin Records America, Inc. is also labeled as a defendant in the suit, as AllHipHop.com reports the label continued to make copies of the album available after Kendrick claimed to send a cease-and-desist order to So So Def.
Kendrick is represented by Pamela Gordon. As of press time calls to Gordon‘s law offices were not returned. Neither Daz nor Dupri, who has since left Virgin to become President of Urban Music at Island/Def Jam, has publicly commented on the incident.
