Cyrus Langhorne
Music mogul Jay Z felt the pressure of a publicized “Big Pimpin'” lawsuit this week in court and temporary forgot he owned Apple Music rival TIDAL.
Grilled by his attorney Andrew Bart about his endless business ventures, Hoo briefly left the music streaming service out of his answer.
“I make music, I’m a rapper, I’ve got a clothing line, I run a label, a media label called Roc Nation, with a sports agency, music publishing and management. Restaurants and nightclubs … I think that about covers it,” he told the court. There was a pause before Mr Bart prompted: “I’m not so sure. You have a music streaming service, don’t you?” “Yeah, yeah. Forgot about that,” Jay Z reportedly deadpanned. (Independent)
Young Hov’s court battle with the heir of an Egyptian composer’s 1957 flute sample started up this week in Los Angeles.
Osama Ahmed Fahmy alleges that the rapper — whose real name Shawn Carter — had no legal right to sample the flute passage, which he claims was lifted from a song composed by his late uncle, Baligh Hamdy, according to the suit. Jay-Z’s 2000 hit opens with the flute sample, which is used as a musical hook throughout the song. (My News LA)
August reports projected an October courtroom battle would go down this fall.
The lawsuit dates from producer Timbaland’s use of a snippet from late Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi’s “Khosara, Khosara,” which he paid $100,000 to license from EMI Arabia. But in a twist that has made this one of the longest currently active lawsuits in the United States, it turns out EMI Arabia itself was licensing the composition from the Egyptian record label Sout el Phan. (Vulture)
Buzz about the lawsuit’s seriousness erupted back in March.
Fahmy’s lawsuit centers on the composition “Khosara, Khosara” from the 1960 Egyptian film Fata ahlami, which Jay Z and Timbaland (who is a co-defendant) turned into the unmistakable hook of the rapper’s 2000 single. Fahmy claims he’s an heir of “Khosara Khosara” composer Baligh Hamdy and sued the rapper for copyright infringement, also naming Paramount Pictures, Warner Music, UMG and MTV among the defendants. (The Hollywood Reporter)
They were joking around. Trying to help him connect to the jury.
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