LA Based, Brooklyn bred Pop Duo Purple Crush are in a heated legal battle with former Gaga producer Rob Fusari. In addition to being a musical act, Isla Cheadle and Jared Selter of Purple Crush are song writers and were hired by Fusari to write music for Gaga's albums The Fame Monster and Born This Way.
Although none of the songs Purple Crush penned for Gaga were used on the album, due payment for the work was never honored by Fusari.
According to Purple Crush, their role involved expanding upon song snippets Fusari sent them, before forwarding their work along to artists, such as Gaga, who would add lyrics and melody. Work was done in their L.A. and Brooklyn studios.
Purple Crush stopped working with Fusari in the spring of 2010. Once Fusari settled his lawsuit with Gaga, he approached Purple Crush once again. This time he told them that production on her next album Born This Way was part of the settlement deal. Fusari used this apparent settlement deal as a bargaining tool to get Purple Crush to work for him. Plus he dangled a carrot of promises of a record deal which was never followed through.
Purple Crush were lead to believe that Gaga did in fact write over their music and feel that some of Gaga's tracks on Born This Way use their sound. In other words ripped off.
All in all, Purple Crush were hired to do a job and weren't paid for it; and they should be. The lawsuit has been going on for some time now. Purple Crush attempted to find a lawyer in NJ that would work pro bono, but were rejected by multiple law firms due to conflicts with Lady Gaga. As a result they are representing themselves in the lawsuit.
You can read more about the lawsuit here on Billboard.
Here's a video from Purple Crush – their song Vacation.
