Just a week ago, Jay Z was in court fighting a case regarding an alleged sample in his 1999 hit “Big Pimpin,” but the judge has already decided to toss it out.
It looks like Drake isn’t the only YMCMB member getting hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit. Young Money’s queen Nicki Minaj is being sued…
Popular rap websites Onsmash.com and Rapgodfathers.com have been shut down by the feds in what appears to be linked to a wide-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies. The two sites were popular with Hip-Hop heads as go-to destinations to download new music.
A Bulgarian designer has sued Beyonce over a bootleg version of their bikini that she wore in her “Video Phone” music video. Watch it here! A German judge agreed, ruling that the clip can no longer be distributed in Germany.
Apparently, one of Omarion’s old A&R people are mad because he jacked another artist’s song. They have decided to vent (anonymously) and give O a heads-up on the bad people he’s keeping around him and the likelihood of being sued very soon.
