Chance the Rapper prevails in legal battle with ex-manager
By Selena Fragassi
Published on March 21, 2026.
A Cook County jury has found that Chance The Rapper, real name Chancellor Bennett, is not owed $3.8 million in unpaid commissions and royalties by his former manager, Pat Corcoran. The jury also ruled that Corcoron must pay Bennett $35 and turn over the internet domain chanceraps.com. The case was part of a five-year legal dispute between Chance TheRapper and Bennett, who had been in a successful independent artist-manager partnership from 2012 to 2020. Both parties argued over the outcome of the case, arguing that CorCoran and Bennett never had a written contract and that their agreement entitled Corcoranian to 15% of net profits for any of the rapper's projects he worked on.
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