{"id":4183,"date":"2026-03-12T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/chad-hugo-amends-suit-against-pharrell-adds-new-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:32:51","slug":"chad-hugo-amends-suit-against-pharrell-adds-new-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/chad-hugo-amends-suit-against-pharrell-adds-new-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Hugo Amends Suit Against Pharrell, Adds New Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The legal battle between Chad Hugo and his former business partner, Pharrell Williams, continues to heat up, with Hugo filing an amendment to his lawsuit over Neptunes royalties,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/williamhochberg\/2026\/03\/09\/chad-hugo-updates-1-million-copyright-complaint-against-pharrell-williams\/?streamIndex=0\"> <em>Forbes<\/em> reports<\/a>. In the updated suit, Hugo makes a startling claim that Pharrell has excluded him from production credits on several songs. At least eight songs were named, including two tracks from Rosal\u00eda\u2019s 2022 album, <em>Motomami<\/em>, and Latto\u2019s \u201cReal One,\u201d also from 2022. That said, one of the tracks from Hugo\u2019s complaint\u2014 a track titled \u201c<em>Lost and Found<\/em>,\u201d from Nigo\u2019s 2022 album, <em>I Know NIGO!<\/em> \u2014 might prove more challenging. <\/p>\n<p>According to Spotify, Hugo is credited as a writer along with 13 others. The outlet noted that Hugo faces an uphill battle because there\u2019s a three-year statute of limitations under the US Copyright Act, which could bar Hugo\u2019s claims for songs released in 2022. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-77549785.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes\" class=\"wp-image-137465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-77549785.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-77549785.jpg?resize=300,215 300w, https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-77549785.jpg?resize=768,550 768w, https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-77549785.jpg?resize=620,444 620w, https:\/\/www.hot97.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-77549785.jpg?resize=990,709 990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer\/WireImage\/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal battle between Chad Hugo and his former business partner, Pharrell Williams, continues to heat up, with Hugo filing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":4315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}