If you’re a Frank Ocean fan, chances are you are very familiar with his “Hotel California”-inspired song “American Wedding”. However, Rhino (the label who owns the rights to the Eagles song) is not too happy with the Odd Future crooner’s popular song. In fact, they are threatening to sue! Don’t they realize that’s what people do on mixtapes now-a-days? Frank took to his Tumblr page to react to the situation. Find out what he had to say after the jump!
DON HENLEY(’S LABEL—RHINO) IS APPARENTLY INTIMIDATED BY MY RENDITION OF HOTEL CALIFORNIA..
He (They) threatened to sue if I perform it again. I think that’s fuckin awesome. I guess if I play it at coachella it’ll cost me a couple hundred racks. If I don’t show up to court, it’ll be a judgement against me & will probably show up on my credit report. Oh well. I try to buy my shit cash anyway. They also asked that I release a statement expressing my admiration for Mr. Henley, along with my assistance pulling it off the web as much as possible. Shit’s weird. Ain’t this guy rich as fuck? Why sue the new guy? I didn’t make a dime off that song. I released it for free. If anything I’m paying homage.
Listen to The Eagles’ “Hotel California” below:
