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He sought justice for George Floyd. His next target? Record labels

Ben Crump arrives for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2023.

In 2022, the New York R&B producer, songwriter and singer Al B. Sure! spent two months in a coma. He survived after a liver transplant, but the ordeal battered his finances.

He needed to find every cent he was due from a career working with Usher, Jodeci and Faith Evans, and being sampled by acts like Megan Thee Stallion.

“I’m blessed to still be alive,” the 55-year-old said. “But after something like that, it’s like asking an accountant to play piano and survive.”

He has a new ally from the civil rights world to find what’s out there. Ben Crump, the attorney who represented and , has a new effort underway to audit record labels’ royalty payments on behalf of artists — especially

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