Funk pioneer George Clinton wants full rights to his legendary music catalog.

According to Variety, the musician has sued music producer Armen Boladian and his Bridgeport Music company for $100 million in copyright ownership. In the lawsuit, filed in Florida District Court on Wednesday, March 12, Clinton, 83, alleged that Boladian illegally obtained the copyright to over 90 percent of his music catalog.

In addition to Boladian and his music publishing company, Clinton claims that Westbound Records, Nine Records, Southfield Music and Eastbound Records continued to profit off his music. Clinton held a press conference with his attorney Ben Crump in front of Harlem’s Apollo Theatre to declare his intentions for the suit.

“These songs we’re talking about is my history,” said the Parliament-Funkadelic frontman. “I have to fight for them, I have to make sure that I did not do all of this my whole life and have my family here, not get what’s due to them, what they inherit. We don’t have a chance to pass down 40 acres and mules to our families. We do not have the copyrights for the songs. So I’m here along with Ben and partners to make sure that Armen does not get what we worked so hard for.”

The lawsuit claims Boladian engaged in dishonest and fraudulent conduct and withheld millions of dollars in royalties. Clinton argues that to decrease his profits, Boladian added false names and pseudonyms to copyright registrations and created several versions of agreements providing additional rights to his catalog between 1982 and 1985. For years, Clinton and Boladian fought in court, beginning in 2001, when a Florida judge ruled Clinton's catalog from 1976 to 1983 belonged to Bridgeport Music.

Clinton plans to “speak truth to power and fight against the forces that have separated so many songwriters from their music.”

“I encourage all my fellow artists to investigate, interrogate, litigate, unseal, reveal. If we don’t get this right, then they win, and I refuse to let them win,” he continued. “This is about my family and the family of the other legacy artists and us being able to give generational wealth to our family from our intellectual property.”