T-Pain Sues Akon's Konvict for $489,000 in Royalties

American singer T-Pain has initiated legal proceedings against Konvict, the record label co-founded by Akon, demanding $489,047 in unpaid royalties. The lawsuit was filed in Fulton County Superior Court, alleging that Konvict breached both a 2005 recording agreement and a settlement reached in 2025.

The dispute centers around more than $1.3 million that Konvict reportedly received from a distributor in late March, which T-Pain claims includes royalties owed to him. He asserts that this payment pertains to sales from the latter half of 2025 and is not covered by their previous settlement, which involved Konvict agreeing to pay T-Pain $114,000 for royalties collected through the end of 2024.

This is not T-Pain's first legal confrontation with Konvict; he previously sued the label in 2018 over unpaid advance money related to his fifth studio album, which was settled in 2025.