DJ Wins Million Dollar Lawsuit Over 'My Humps'
Reports that a New York jury has awarded him almost $1.2 million for the illegal sampling of his 1983 tune ‘I Need A Freak'.Tolliver recorded the song for a dubiously-monikered concept act called Sexual Harrassment with collaborator James McCant.
McCant registered the song with BMI, giving Tolliver 75% of the songwriting royalties.
‘I Need A Freak’ then appeared on a 2000 compilation In Da Beginning...There Was Rap , and Tolliver sent him a cease-and-desist letter but McCant said he never issued the license.
McCant then claimed he co-authored the song, then tried to show ‘My Humps’ didn’t sample the song, he claimed he owned the entire song through copyright assignment.
Ultimately, the jury ruled against McCant to the tune of US$1,185,581.50 in profits and damages.
If that first cease-and-desist letter had been abided by, we may never have had the Black Eyed Peas’ ‘My Humps’. We’ll leave the qualitative assessment to our readers.
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Reuters reports that a New York jury has awarded him almost $1.2 million for the illegal sampling of his 1983 tune 'I Need A Freak'. Tolliver recorded the song for a dubiously-monikered concept act called Sexual Harrassment with collaborator James
Bragg says: Glastonbury's cultural currency – music – no longer has the political clout it once had. "When it started, music was still the language with which you spoke to your peers. But if I was young, political and angry today, I wouldn't need to
Do you need to learn to sing the Lord's song again? Do you have a family member, friend or coworker who has a need to know the Lord's song? I believe the end of time is near. We are living in the New Testament period called the Church Age.
This makes my head hurt. We have met the enemy and its us. by kosl (3 comments ) June 17, 2011 9:12 AM PDT That comment applies to Apple vs the entire music industry. The RIAA estimate for world music market is around 40Billion (2004).
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Dr. Boyce Watkins: Lil' Wayne is “An Enemy of the Black Community ...
“This verse, and a few others, served as the straw that broke the camel’s back. There is a difference between good, fun entertainment and…“weaponized” brainwashing. It’s one thing when scattered bits of poison happen to hit your children. It’s another thing when it’s concentrated, packaged and targeted in large quantities. Corporate America has wired this game in such a way that millions of our kids are encouraged to consume the messages of Lil Wayne and other artists, the same way soldiers are asked to recite the pledge of allegiance every morning before breakfast.
I am now officially boycotting Lil Wayne. It breaks my heart to do this, because the last thing I’d ever want to do is make an enemy out of my own brother. I also consider Lil Wayne to be one of the most talented commercialized hip-hop artists in America (I clearly admit to respecting his lyrical capabilities). But one thing I can’t support is this kind of irresponsible music without realizing the implications that it has on our young children, and how their lives are destroyed before they even have a chance to make decisions for themselves. The same way the Arabic community pushes children to memorize the Qur’an at an early age, African American children memorize the recipe for their own self-destruction on the radio every single morning.”
Dr. Watkins is certainly justified in his loathing for this track, as these dark lyrics are particularly disturbing. And while many would like to dismiss the significance of Wayne’s words as “dark humor” or fantasy, we’ve certainly got enough problems without fantasizing about murder and death. Not when so many Black men and women meet violent deaths in the streets each day. However, his selection of a song from two years ago to single out may cause some to feel that he is a bit out of touch with what today’s threat is. And it also begs the question: how could you only now see Wayne as a problem?
As a long time critic of Rap music and it’s often destructive influence on our people, I’m with Dr. Watkins here. Yes, I understand that not all emcees are like Wayne and that Hip-Hop is diverse and his done some fantastic things. But the most pervasive and popular strains of the art form are too often like “We Be Steady Mobbin”: poisonous.
Is Dr. Watkins on point with his assessment, or is he does he fail to “get it”? Is he giving Rap music (and Lil’ Wayne) too much power? Speak, Clutchettes and Clutch Gents!
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