When are pages from an old notebook worth $5 million? If they once belonged to rap legend Lil Wayne and are full of his earliest song lyrics. But those same notebook pages were also the subject of a legal battle in 2019 between Wayne and the notebook’s current owner, who claimed to have stumbled upon the priceless find in a car that formerly belonged to Wayne’s label, Cash Money Records.

The notebook’s owner is selling the pages, which contain Wayne’s lyrics for the 1999 Hot Boys single “We on Fire,” through memorabilia and autograph sales specialist Moments in Time. They have listed the piece as “the only handwritten lyrics by Lil Wayne ever for sale,” and highlighted its historical significance as, in terms of his later career, they are some of the first lyrics the young rapper ever wrote:

“Written and recorded on tour in 1998. Lil Wayne was 15 years old and his whole world changed after this song was recorded, making it his most meaningful song.”

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Lil Wayne, of course, rose to stratospheric fame as a solo artist, but that may never have happened without the success of this song. But the story behind the notebook’s true owners is almost as interesting: Moments in Time first tried to sell the pages in 2019, but Wayne disagreed and demanded that they return the pages to him. His lawyers even sent a cease-and-desist letter to the auction house, which apparently prevented the sale from taking place before the recent relisting. But Moments in Time and the de facto owner of the pages took the matter to court themselves, accusing Wayne of intimidation and interference in a sale that was legally none of his business. And the rapper must not have cared that much about the matter, because he reportedly never responded and the court ruled against him by default.

Now the sites are back on sale for $5 million – whether anyone will actually pay that price remains to be seen at the time of writing this article.