The Berlin Regional Court found that Arafat Abou-Chaker was not a manager for Bushido.
The Berlin regional court found that the clan boss Arafat Abou-Chaker was not a manager for Bushido, which is why he is now granting the rapper a repayment in the millions.
Abou-Chaker was not entitled to any payments
Bushido and Arafat Abou-Chaker have been on trial for years on various issues. Now the Berlin Regional Court decided on Wednesday (September 6th) that Abou-Chaker had wrongly received money from Bushido in recent years. Abou-Chaker did not carry out any management tasks and should therefore now pay back almost two million euros to the rapper, including interest. The court stated, among other things:
“It remains completely unclear what contribution the plaintiff (Abou-Chaker) claims to have made in accordance with the legal system by acting as the so-called ‘back’ of the defendant. […]“
The process in question originally started with a lawsuit from Abou-Chaker himself. Bushido separated from him in 2018. However, the clan boss – who does not want to be described as such himself – still demanded a share of the label’s income from previous years. Abou-Chaker sued Bushido for 842,000 euros plus interest. The rapper also responded with a lawsuit, stating that the requested payments were not legal and also demanding the money back from the period between 2016 and 2018.
Last April, a default action followed against Abou-Chaker because he did not submit any further applications. After he then filed an objection, the court looked at the contracts concluded between the two parties. In these, Abou-Chaker claimed a profit share of 30 and 50 percent. According to the current verdict, he would have demanded and received a share for doing nothing.
The separation from Abou-Chaker and the collaboration with the police caused some shifts away from Bushido in the German rap scene. That’s why Capital Bra separated from Bushido’s label “Ersguterjunge” in 2019, with which he was previously under contract. Since then, the two rappers haven’t been on particularly good terms with each other. Bushido recently released his new single “Dark Knight” last Friday, which is a diss track against Capi.