Lil Wayne has reportedly been sued by a musical publishing company for using a Rolling Stones song without permission.
According to Reuters, Abkco Music Inc. claims that Lil Wayne sampled Rolling Stones’ song “Play With Fire” without permission and used it on his song “Play With Fire” which is featured on Tha Carter III.
Abkco owns the rights to the “Play With Fire”. They claim Lil Wayne’s version of “Play With Fire” uses “explicit, sexist and offensive language” and causes the public to believe that their company and the Rolling Stones approved the rapper’s version.
Abkco’s lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court yesterday (July 24) and seeks unspecified damages.
Lil Wayne’s representatives could not be reached for comment.
Source: SixShot
Rapper Lil’ Wayne who was originally billed to appear on Friday night at Reggae Sumfest has now been moved to Saturday night, and Akon now booked for the Friday night.
According to a release issued late yesterday evening, ‘Akon has been added to the star studded line-up for this year’s Reggae Sumfest. This will be Akon’s second appearance on the Sumfest stage, his first being in the summer of 2005. The Hip-Hop/R&B superstar is slated to perform on Friday, July 18 with fellow international act Keyshia Cole. Rap mogul Lil Wayne is now scheduled to hit the stage on the last night of the festival,Saturday, July 19, to collaborate with friend and colleague T-Pain.’
There are conflicting reports coming from all over that Lil Wayne was arrested last night. None of these have been confirmed but with so many sources involved, one has to be curious as to what happened.
One of the sources (Uptown Media) claims that Wayne was arrested on one count of second degree aggravated assault, one count of disturbing the peace and two counts of possession of a firearm. Alleged eyewitnesses say the incident occurred at Club Dream in New Orleans where Weezy got into a physical altercation with a local artist by the name of Lil Dee.
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Lil Wayne regained the top spot on the Billboard 200 this week, after being thrust to no. 2 last week because of a new release by Coldplay.
Tha Carter III comes in at no. 1 after four weeks, selling 156,000 copies, bringing Weezy’s total sales to 1.68 million.
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Cassie just wants to be the wifey. Is that too much to ask for a gorgeous model/ singer/ Kanye West video co-star? Apparently so.
“It could go a bunch of different ways,” she said earlier this week in L.A. on the set of her video for “Official Girl.” Chris Robinson directed and the million-selling Lil Wayne guest-stars on the record, which was produced by Danjahandz. “For me, it meant being with somebody, but not really being with them and wanting their confirmation and wanting them to say it out loud: ‘I want to be your official girl.’
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Lil Wayne has a million copies under his belt and is slated to start his Tha Carter III tour this week. One of the album’s standout tracks is Weezy’s collaboration with Jay-Z, “Mr. Carter.” Wayne told us last week that Hov was just a phone call away. Weezy co-managers G. Roberson and Kyambo “Hip Hop” Joshua used to be execs at Roc-A-Fella records.
“Shout-out to my [other manger] Cortez, my man G. My man Hip Hop,” Wayne said. “I asked them. I said, ‘That’s y’all big homie. I want a record.’ And I sent him that one. I thought that was perfect. I already had three verses to it and everything. I sent it, and the rest is history.”
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Friday, July 25, 2008
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