Things are heating up in the legal battle between R&B singer Muni Long and her former managers.
In a new report from Billboard, Long, whose government name is Priscilla Renea Hamilton, has pushed back with a countersuit against her previous managers, Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon, who accused her of breaching their initial agreement in October 2025.
What exactly is Long being sued for?
Zulu and Dixon, under their management imprint, Ebony Son Entertainment, claim that Long owes them more than $600,000 in “unpaid commissions.”
Brothers Zulu and Dixon, influential music executives, are the co-founders of Disturbing That Peace Records alongside rapper Ludacris.
Along with Ludacris, the pair is known for their roles in Atlanta’s hip-hop scene, responsible for helping fellow Southern artists like Chingy and Big K.R.I.T. rise to fame.
According to legal documents, the brothers report that their relationship with Long began at the 2023 Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans, where the singer allegedly agreed to compensate them a total of 20% of all of her gross revenue, along with reimbursement for all management-related expenses, as a result of their decision to work together.
While Long is said to have honored the agreement for a year, all payments ceased in October 2024 when she was reportedly “unhappy” with the amount of fees. In January 2025, she stopped working with the management company altogether.
“Defendant Priscilla Renea Hamilton is publicly known as the musical artist ‘Muni Long’ but her less well-known performances are as a serial grifter,” Zulu and Dixon stated in the lawsuit. “After taking the benefit of plaintiff’s elite and highly sought-after management services for more than a year, Muni Long shamelessly reneged on her promises to pay plaintiff the agreed-upon, customary percentage of revenue she earned, and only earned because plaintiff assisted in obtaining those engagements.”
The countersuit
Previously, Long’s team denied the claims, deeming them “unfounded.” However, in the recent documents, they expressed disdain that “the matter could not be resolved privately and professionally.”
The “Hrs & Hrs” singer also reportedly offered settlements to Zulu and Dixon.
Moreover, Long, who has been vocal about her ongoing battle with lupus in recent years, claims that in March 2024, she was forced to spend five days at the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Behavioral Health Center in Indian River County, Florida.
She says that Zulu and Dixon forced her to stay at the facility where she was “isolated and experienced excruciating pain and mental anguish from being forced to remain in a mental health facility instead of having her lupus condition treated.”
The countersuit also reads: “As a result of being placed in the wrong facility, Hamilton did not receive correct medical care, which had a long-term negative effect on her health. Neither Zulu nor Dixon visited or attempted to contact Hamilton while she was hospitalized. Zulu and Dixon continually failed to satisfy the rudimentary functions of a personal manager in the music industry.”
At this time, the amount of financial damage that Long and her legal team are seeking has not been disclosed.