Kanye West Hit With Countersuit Over Early Tracks

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Kanye West Hit With Countersuit Over Early Tracks

Filing claims Eric 'E-Smoove' Miller owns the rights to the unreleased material.

The Chicago-based DJ who was hit with a $1.3 million lawsuit filed in August by attorneys representing Kanye West has struck back at West with a countersuit.

West's filing accused Eric "E-Smoove" Miller, who owns Focus Music Group in Richton Park, Illinois, of attempting to distribute 10 unreleased tracks recorded when West was 18 by using a faux contract on which he'd forged West's signature. The suit also sought to ban Miller from using West's name or voice in connection with the recordings and their commercial distribution.

Miller's counterclaim alleges that West was working for and with him during the mid-1990s, and the contract he presented to distributors while trying to distribute the cuts