Lil Wayne and his ex-lawyer Ron Sweeney have been in a long-running legal battle over whether Weezy owed the attorney millions in legal fees. The battle, which has been ongoing for more than seven years, has finally been decided. A judge determined that a 10% fee deal previously in effect between the two parties is no longer valid.

The rapper first sued the attorney in 2019, claiming that a contingency fee that saw Sweeney getting 10% of Wayne’s profits was an “exorbitant” amount and more than “double the customary rate for attorneys in the music industry.” Wayne claimed that because the agreement was only a verbal one and never signed, it was not legally binding since he fired Sweeney in 2018.

Sweeney countersued Wayne, first in California and then in New York, asserting that the fee should be enforced. Sweeney alleged he was due $20 million from deals that went through after his termination. These included a lucrative and confidential royalty settlement with Cash Money Records and an alleged sale of Young Money master recordings to UMG.

According to New York Judge James D’Auguste in court documents filed on Tuesday (October 14), Sweeney is not owed 10% of any money that Wayne acquired since the two parted ways.

“Counterclaim plaintiffs may not, under [the law], receive a contingency fee, as contemplated by the voided oral contingency fee arrangement or otherwise,” wrote Judge D’Auguste. “Accordingly, they are not entitled to discovery regarding the monies received by [Lil Wayne] in connection with the master recordings sale and Cash Money/Universal settlements.”

Sweeney can only pursue “reasonable fees” from the rapper, which are to be determined in evidence discovery. Naturally, Sweeney is still seeking millions. Lil Wayne maintains that the attorney is owed nothing because the rapper actually overpaid him during their 13 years of working together.

“After an almost seven-year battle in multiple courts in New York and California, lawyers can rest a little easier in knowing that the rule of law still matters and will be applied faithfully by courts,” said Lil Wayne’s attorney, Jonathan Davis, in a statement to Billboard celebrating the ruling.