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*Rapper Yung Joc tells Billboard.com that he plans to file a lawsuit against Block Entertainment and Diddy’s Bad Boy Records for a host of contractual discrepancies.
Among the accusations: failure to pay royalties and advances for his first two albums and charging “outrageous clearance fees” for his collaborations with other artists.

“I haven’t been paid any royalties since I’ve been out, after over a million albums sold,” says Yung Joc. “For my first album, they gave me a $25,000 advance when I was supposed to get more…Then I had a million dollar budget for my second album, never even got an advance off of it. For the third one they hit me with another $25,000, like I’m some chump in this sh**. And I just got tired of it.”

While Yung Joc says his main beef is with Block Entertainment, the company that brought him to Bad Boy Records, he also expressed anger over Bad Boy’s lack of support.

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“Diddy said he’s got to stay out of it because it’s between me and Block Entertainment,” Yung Joc explains. “I was never signed to Block Entertainment, but they’ve been interfering with a lot of my business. I feel like [Bad Boy] isn’t doing anything to try to intervene and help the situation.”

Yung Joc is currently at work on his third LP, “Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood” and said he aims to release the album by the end of 2009, whether Bad Boy is behind him or not. “I’m not gonna let anybody slow me down. I’m just gonna go in and use some independent record promoters to promote my record,” he says.

The rapper has already recorded new tracks with Rick Ross, Gucci Mane and Bobby Valentino and producers Jazze Pha and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, among others.

Despite his frustrations, Yung Joc says his lawsuit is all about business and nothing personal. “I’m not even griping; I’m just letting it be known that what’s fair is fair, and I haven’t been treated fairly. I’ve been fighting for a year and a half. I’m prepared to weather the storm. So they could kiss my ass, and let’s go to court.”