A record producer named Carlos Evans is claiming that 50 Cent, Lil’ Kim and two record companies have failed to pay him royalties on a song that sold 2 million copies, and he has filed a suit against them to the tune of $2 million — $1 million for compensation, and $1million in punitive damages.

Evans calls himself “Phantom of the Beat” and says his industry resume includes acts like Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah, and Busta Rhymes.

Evans claims, in the papers that he has filed in Manhattan’s state Supreme Court, that he was contracted with Rotten Apple records in January 2003 to produce, engineer, and mix a rap track to be performed by Lil’ Kim and 50 Cent, called “Magic Stick”.

Evans was supposed to have gotten a $7,500 advance plus royalties for his work on the song. He told the court that he was paid the $7,500 advance, but not any of the royalties, and that his requests for a royalties audit have all been ignored.

The song ended up on Lil’ Kim’s 2003 “La Bella Mafia” album, although it was intended for 50 Cent’s “Get Rich Or Die Tryin’”. Lil’ Kim’s album was recorded and distributed by Atlantic records.

Evans said that “”It was one of the hottest tracks on that album, and I didn’t collect my royalties”.

Theodore Sedlmayr, the lawyer for Rotten Apple Records issued a statement saying that the late royalty problems happened because Evans used large sample of someone else’s music in “Magic Stick”, so the segment had to be licensed and paid for first.

He said that Atlantic Records was still in the process of accounting and that if Evans was entitled to anything, he would get it. Atlantic Records declined to comment on pending litigation, as per their standard operating procedure.

Last March, Lil’ Kim was convicted of perjury for lying to a federal grand jury concerning a shootout that occurred outside a radio station back in 2001. Three counts of perjury and one of conspiracy were the successful cases against her, but she was able to avoid conviction for obstruction of justice.

Lil’ Kim had testified before that she didn’t notice two close friends at the scene of the 2001 gun battle outside WQHT, also known as Hot 97, where Lil’ Kim’s entourage crossed paths with a rival rap group called Capone-N-Noreaga. Lil’ Kim’s entourage confronted them about an insult in one of their albums, and then later on, a shootout happened.

It was Kim’s testimony that she didn’t notice her manager Damion “D-Roc” Butler, and Suif “Gutta” Jackson at the scene, that got her convicted. Radio station security photos show Butler opening a door for her , while other witnesses testified that both men were at the station with her. The prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Cathy Seibel, told the jury that Lil’ Kim would have to have been wearing “magic sunglasses that only block out your friends who were shooting people,” to be able to not notice her friends at the scene of the crime.

Both Butler and Jackson have since pleaded guilty to gun charges, and Lil’ Kim’s assistant was also convicted on perjury and conspiracy charges along with her.

This June 6, Lil’ Kim was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, plus $50,000 in fines for her crime. She could have spent up to 20 years in prison on her conviction, so she’s lucky to have gotten off so easy.