More Legal Problems for Rap Artist Lil' Wayne: Breach of Contract

Lil' Wayne's legal troubles continue, it seems. A record producer is suing the already imprisoned rapper, claiming Wayne's record company owes him $500,000 in royalties for "Lollipop," the 2009 Grammy winner for Best Rap Song.

Jim Jonsin, whose real names is James Scheffer, filed a lawsuit against Young Money Entertainment—Lil' Wayne's record company—in Manhattan federal court earlier this week. Lil' Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, isn't personally named in the suit. But according to the complaint, the "hugely successful" song was downloaded more than four million times and sold as a ringtone more than four million times, and yet Wayne's company failed to make royalty payments or hand over accurate accounting statements to Scheffer.

Jonsin also noted that the rapper failed to provide promised semi-annual accounting statements in December 2008 and June 2009 and that, when they were provided, the statements "grossly under reported the monies due plaintiff and were not accompanied by any payment."

This lawsuit may be the least of Wayne's legal problems, of course. He's currently at Rikers serving a one-year prison sentence for a felony weapons charge.