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Soulja Boy Sues Manager Over "Unjust" Contracts

Soulja Boy claims he was taken advantage of as 16-year-old in 2007 by his ex-manager, who he feels exploited his naivete with unreasonable contracts. The rapper filed the documents in Georgia Superior Court, claiming his manager / lawyer Philip Ransom coerced him into signing multiple unjust deals . He calls the terms “unconscionable, oppressive, and unjust.” So what did he agree to that’s so oppressive, you ask? The contracts included a management deal that gave Ransom 5 percent of Soulja’s income … forever … relating to work completed under his management. Another contract allegedly gave 50 percent of all Soulja’s music copyrights to his record label,a deal the rapper now claims is