Indie Label Prince EP 'Deliverance' Hit With Lawsuit, Pulled From Apple Music

This week, a previously unheard-of posthumous Prince EP, Deliverance, was suddenly streaming on Apple Music. Released under a Vancouver-based independent label called Rogue Music Alliance, the six-song set was slated for digital release on April 21, the day of Prince's 2016 death at the age of 57. The Deliverance tracks were billed as "undiscovered studio records" from 2006-08.

Now the EP's originator, sound engineer George Ian Boxill, who's done work with Janet Jackson and Tupac, has been hit with a lawsuit by Paisley Park and Prince's estate. He is reportedly "violating a signed agreement that stated all recordings made during the Prince sessions would remain the artist's sole and exclusive property," Billboard writes. The project no longer appears on streaming services or on iTunes; TMZ notes that it was No. 1 on the pre-order chart.