Lil Uzi Vert is dealing with a wave of authorized hassle after retaining a comparatively low profile for many of 2025. The Philadelphia rapper is now coping with two lawsuits that surfaced inside just some days. One of them is a significant copyright case filed by Rochester artist Rief Rawyal, who’s demanding 110 million {dollars} in damages.

According to courtroom paperwork, Rawyal claims Lil Uzi Vert’s 2022 hit “Just Wanna Rock” copied key parts from his music “Pain and Pleasure,” which was launched a couple of months earlier. He says Uzi “copied the original hook, melody, and theme” and even took inspiration from the mantra “When I rock ah ah.” A forensic musicologist, Brian McBrearty, analyzed each tracks and reportedly discovered a 93 to 97 p.c similarity. His research discovered that the tempo, rhythm, construction, and lyrical phrasing across the phrase “rock” had been almost equivalent.

Rawyal’s lawsuit additionally factors out that each songs share the identical tempo vary, drum sample, and syncopation fashion referred to as “tresillo.” The lyrics in every file additionally comply with the same sample, utilizing first-person, present-tense statements that finish with the phrase “rock.” These similarities, the lawsuit argues, make it clear that “Just Wanna Rock” was not an unique creation.

In addition to the musical claims, Rawyal alleges that his social media posts about “Pain and Pleasure” had been muted or taken down across the identical time Uzi’s observe started to go viral. He believes Uzi and Atlantic Records had entry to his music via his earlier collaboration with Lanre Gaba, an government on the label. Rawyal says this connection created a direct path for his materials to succeed in Uzi’s group.

The go well with names Lil Uzi Vert, Atlantic Records, Generation Now, Roc Nation, and Warner music Group as defendants. Rawyal is asking for publishing credit score, shared possession of the music, and compensation for misplaced income and popularity.