Lil Wayne files lawsuit against his producer for an uncleared sample
Lil Wayne files lawsuit against his producer for an uncleared sample….wait, why is the producer being sued for that?
story: AllHipHop.com Daily News – : Lil Wayne Sues Producer Over Concert Song
song: YouTube – I feel like dying – Lil wayne
“rebel rock productions” gave wayne a beat that contained a sample in it for his song “i feel like dieing”. wayne recorded a song to it, but never put it out on his album “the carter iii.” despite the fact that its not on his album, wayne continued to promotoinally perform the song in concert and allegedly allowed people to download it for free from his website. the original owner of the sample that is contained in the song filed a lawsuit against Lil Wayne over it last year. Oddly, now Wayne is sueing the producer of the song. as producers, we should probably take heed the precedent being set here. the only fact that is hazy is–did wayne buy the beat? if wayne bought it and the producer lied about the sample on the paperwork, then i understand waynes position. if wayne never bought the beat, they need to throw this case out immediately. wayne is the one who is promoting the song, performing it, and allegedly making money from it. the producer was simply shopping a beat under the same pretense that we all shop beats–if it has a sample, it ain’t gettin cleared unless the song is gonna come out. you shop the beats with samples until they get picked up, then its on the label to clear it, or the label and producer collectively. if the producer didn’t even get paid for the beat, its atrocious that wayne is gonna turn around and sue the guy for giving him a free beat.
“deeper than snacks”
for the sake of a few laughs… actually quite a few… dude sounds just like him… PS, j.u.s.t.i.c.e. league killed every beat they had on that album, they are the truth
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Check out the introduction chapter from the book “The 50th Law” by Robert Greene (author of 48 Laws of Power, Art of Seduction) and 50 Cent. Click Here to see. Greene says he wrote the book after spending most of 2007 studying 50 cent, being inspired by 50’s “utter fearlessness.” It comes out Sept 8th. I hope its pretty good. It seems to be a simpler digression from his last offering, 33 Strategies of War.
BEATS
New beats are coming soon. I’ve been extremely busy working on a multitude of projects. Shout out to STTS ENT, MOF, Big Meezy, Young Spiel, and the whole extended fam. For now, I’m reminiscing on the glorious grind by watching one my favorite episodes of the Hustle House:
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The Real Pirates
This whole pirate’s bay ordeal has re-opened a can of dead dry worms
when will corporations and bureaucrats stop receiving the public leverage they need to recklessly harass those of us who are keeping up with technology??
here’s what it boils down to: if you’re going to blame the internet for the downfall of the music business because file sharing has diminished physical album sales, you must also equally give it praise for its fan-building successes, the business relations and networks it has established, and the new artists it has ushered into the game. money is still being generated and music is still being made, its just no longer being controlled by the record labels. how else can one explain an industry taking a 50% loss in a year, and all of its employees (artists, managers, producers, studios, etc) are still working except the “bossess” (record labels)?? too bad the auto industry couldnt work like that
as fans, we have only benefited. we get access to more music from more artists on a regular basis. within a matter of moments after hearing about an album, we can have that entire album on our computer. if we hear a song we like on the radio, we google the lyrics, and download it. efficiency. much more efficient than if you hear a song, write down the lyrics, then try to go the record store and try to sing the song back to the employee there, especially if its not a popular song. money is not magically generated as soon as a good song is created–good songs are made all the time. Just because it sounds good doesn’t mean its a hit, and it doesn’t mean its worth anything either. if the song is not properly promoted through the right media channels, it will never generate funds, even if its the most poignant composition in the world. promotion, organization, strategy, effectiveness: these are the business tools that must accomodate good music in order for it to have a chance to become popular. when we buy a song, we aren’t just buying wave files of sound, we are buying an artists image, their ideas, their uniqueness, their acceptance. the worth of anything is based on what the market bears. if the market changes, then why not change with it? doesn’t it seem like a backwards business strategy to try and change your market, rather than change to accommodate to the market?
as artists, we don’t face any new challenges, rather its the same challenge just in a new form. instead of trying to get signed, now we try to get fanbases and downloads. instead of selling albums out of our trunks, we now sell them out of our trunks and on websites. instead of only doing local shows, we can book shows anywhere via a simple email or by a twit or myspace msg or on facebook, etc etc etc. the nature of the business is cutting out the middle man. and the only middle man left to cut out is the record label
funny thing is, our lawmaking and law enforcement officials won’t let nature cut out the middle man. they are forcing us to accept and rely on the record labels, who in turn convince us they are worth of being accepted and relied on because they give us albums from our favorite artists. except, artists are no longer needing the record label’s funding when they could simply book a european tour, drop an indie album while on the road, and make much more in profit than any record deal would give them, even if the album went platinum on the label.
whats the label’s motivation? cash. they have been ripping off artists since their inception, the big labels manipulating their artists in harmonious unison. how many artists have died destitute and broke, while the record label exec retires wealthy and with severance and benefits? I’m not going against nature here: if thats how it plays out, thats how it plays out. and it played out like that for a long time: then when the pendelum started swinging in favor of the artists, the labels are trying to use all of the might they can muster to block it. the labels are only stifling creativity and discouraging people from being fans of music. label owners got greedy and planned on passing down wealth for generations to come. maybe going broke will be good for them…hopefully it will force them to change, instead of them forcing us to
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