Today was a good day for rapper Young Jeezy who won’t have to cough up $5 million to a former friend that claimed he helped Jeezy launch his career.
According to Demetrius “Kinky B” Ellerbee, he and Jeezy have been best friends since 1995. Ellerbee believes that he’s entitled to half Jeezy’s earnings because they were partners, formed two record companies together and recorded several mixtapes. Basically Ellerbee claimed he is the one who helped Jeezy establish himself in the music industry and had not only been cheated out of advance money, but album sales/royalties as well.
Ellerbee, who some may recognize from Jeezy’s Hustlerz Ambition documentary, took the case to court in 2013. Jeezy fired back saying that not only did he not agree to any business deals with Ellerbee, they weren’t even best friends. Apparently the courts agreed.
