More than 20 years after the label relationship helped launch his career, T-Pain says he is still fighting over what the catalog owes him.
T-Pain, whose legal name is Faheem Rashad Najm, filed a new lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court alleging that Konvict Entertainment still owes him $489,047 in royalties.
The complaint was filed September 4. It is the second royalty lawsuit T-Pain has brought against the company.
Konvict Entertainment is the defendant. Akon is not personally named in the new case.
Where the $489,047 claim comes from
According to the complaint, Konvict received roughly $1.3 million from a distributor in March 2026 for music sales generated during the second half of 2025.
T-Pain says his agreements entitle him to 75% of the net royalties Konvict receives from distributors for his recordings.
He alleges Konvict paid him $489,047 in June but that another $489,047 remains unpaid.
Part of the dispute involves money that was sent to an affiliate, BuVision. T-Pain says his representatives were told to pursue that company for the remaining amount and were unsuccessful.
Those are allegations in a civil lawsuit. They have not been proven in court.
This fight did not start in 2026
T-Pain sued Konvict in 2018 over earlier royalty issues tied to his recording agreement.
That case ended in a 2025 settlement covering royalties through the end of 2024. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Konvict denied liability in the earlier case but agreed to pay $114,000 as part of the settlement.
T-Pain now says the company breached both the recording agreement and that settlement when later royalty money came in.
The history is what gives the lawsuit weight
T-Pain’s relationship with Konvict goes back to the beginning of the run that made him one of the defining voices of the mid-2000s.
That makes this more than a dispute with a random company years later.
The same business relationship tied to his rise is still being argued over as the catalog continues generating money decades later.
That is what long music contracts can do: the artist’s public career can move through several eras while the paperwork behind the old records keeps producing new questions.
What happens next
Konvict can respond to the allegations in court, and the parties could also resolve the dispute before a judge rules on the underlying claims.
The $489,047 figure is T-Pain’s allegation, not a court judgment.
The next meaningful development will be Konvict’s response, a settlement or a court ruling that changes the status of the claim.
