The Infamous B.I.G.’s former supervisor Wayne Barrow wins his authorized battle towards Religion Evans to regulate Biggie’s music catalog and mental property rights.
In line with paperwork obtained by XXL on Tuesday (Aug. 11), a Delaware Chancery Court docket choose dominated on Aug. 7 in favor of Wayne Barrow serving as executor of the late Brooklyn rapper’s property and stated Religion Evans has no authorized authority to dam funds meant for a belief fund arrange by B.I.G.’s late mom, Voletta Wallace. Barrow was additionally confirmed because the individual chargeable for managing each the belief fund and Voletta Wallace’s property.
The authorized battle between Barrow and Evans began after March of 2025, when The Infamous B.I.G.’s property partnered with publishing firm Major Wave in a deal that may see the corporate take over a 50 % curiosity in Biggie’s catalog, publishing, and publicity rights. The reported $100 million deal was put in place by Biggie’s mom earlier than she handed away in February of 2025 on the age of 78.
In July of 2025, Wayne Barrow filed a lawsuit towards Religion Evans, alleging that she was ignoring their break up possession and obstructing funds for the property and redirecting the funds towards herself and the youngsters of the late rapper.
In Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick’s 16-page ruling, she started by quoting a lyric from B.I.G.’s traditional tune, “Ten Crack Commandments,” wherein he warned to “preserve your loved ones and enterprise fully separated.”
“After [Biggie’s] tragic dying, nevertheless, his mom and widow did precisely the other—forming Infamous B.I.G., LLC (the “Firm”) beneath Delaware regulation to handle the late rapper’s mental property. This litigation was maybe the inevitable end result,” she wrote.
“[Biggie’s] mom handed away in 2025. In her will, she left her curiosity within the Firm to a belief, which the Firm’s LLC Settlement recognized as a transferee ‘permitted’ to obtain membership items. Initially, Wallace’s mom had named her grandson as a successor trustee. Simply weeks earlier than she died, nevertheless, she amended the belief settlement to take away her grandson and identify the Plaintiff [Barrow] as the only trustee,” she continued.
“The plaintiff then tried to effectuate the belief settlement by asserting the belief’s rights to membership items within the Firm. Presumably angered by the affront to her son, the defendant-widow took the place that the LLC Settlement prohibited the switch of membership items to the belief and refused to make distributions to the belief,” she added.
“The plaintiff [Barrow] filed this motion, in search of partly a declaration that the belief is a member of the Firm. The plaintiff has moved for partial abstract judgment on that declare. This choice grants the plaintiff’s movement for abstract judgment and dismisses the defendant’s mirror-image counterclaim,” Chancellor McCormick concluded.
To sum it up, Wayne Barrow is now in charge of how The Infamous B.I.G.’s music catalog and mental property shall be disseminated for public consumption.
“Wayne is feeling vindicated. We obtained a complete victory in a dispute that by no means ought to have occurred,” Barrow’s lawyer Jay W. Freiberg informed Rolling Stone of their report. “Wayne goes again with the household for many years, and Mama Wallace needed Wayne to steward the legacy of the Infamous B.I.G. after she was gone, and he now will have the ability to do this. He is aware of it’s an important process, and he’s trying ahead to fulfilling Mama Wallace’s needs in that regard.”
XXL has reached out to attorneys for each Wayne Barrow and Religion Evans for remark.
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