H.E.R. Fleeing MBK Entertainment With A Whopping Lawsuit: Here's Why

After spending more than a decade on her label, MBK Entertainment, H.E.R. is now attempting to flee the label's arms.

But it seemed like the exit is heading to a messy one as the GRAMMY-winning artist filed a massive lawsuit against the label to be released.

H.E.R. has been signed to the label since 2011, when she was still eleven years old and starting in the music industry.

H.E.R Lawsuit vs MBK Entertainment Explained

The Blast obtained legal documents on H.E.R.'s, known as Gabriella Wilson, current lawsuit - who is suing MBK Entertainment for declaratory relief and violation of the business and professions code and seeking to be released from her contract with MBK. (via Variety)

The whopping lawsuit was filed last Thursday at the Superior Court of the State of California in Los Angeles County.

H.E.R.'s longtime manager, Nick Robinson, owns MBK Entertainment, to whom he signed in 2011. So it is unknown if the issue on the label also extends to her management contract with her manager or if it is solely for the label.

Per the documents, the "Best Part" hitmaker's contract dictates that she is an "exclusive employee" for an "initial period" only - which ends 12 months after the commercial release of "Back of My Mind."

The document also says that H.E.R believed that the contract she signed made her an exclusive employee of MBK past the agreed dates. It also alleges that Robinson, in his capacity as manager, fired the law firm that represented her initially.

Robinson then used his own lawyers to represent H.E.R on the negotiation of subsequent contracts, including publishing and touring agreements. It also included allegations that Robinson's lawyers took 5% of the deals they negotiated despite not having any written agreement to it.

Wilson also claims that MBK has "significantly limited" her "employment rights" and that she "has not been free to provide her recording services except as permitted or dictated by MBK." She then claimed that the label has exclusively owned the "right to exploit her name and likeness for her recordings."

This is not the first lawsuit that H.E.R. was hit in the past few months. Earlier this month, the singer's song "Could've Been" was alleged to have copied "significant" segments from a 1990 gospel acapella track.