When Ne-Yo, real name Shaffer Smith, was booted from R. Kelly’s recent tour, Ne-Yo claimed that it was because he was big enough now that he was upstaging R. Kelly.

Well, a judge seemed to agree that may have been the case, and Ne-Yo was just awarded a $700K payout yesterday after R. Kelly’s promoter Rowe Entertainment failed to respond to Ne-Yo’s lawsuit.

According to Rowe, when the incident initially occurred, the reason Ne-Yo got dropped was because he failed to return a “finalized” contract.

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