“It bothers me when the Gods get to actin’ like the broads.”
Mac Miller skyrocketed to fame a couple years back via a crazy web presence, and one song that helped fuel this was “Kool-Aid & Frozen Pizza.” The track was offered for free on his debut [FREE] mixtape, KIDS. Mac created a video for the song as well, that ended up garnering over 24 million YouTube views to date. However, the song sampled rap legend Lord Finesse’s beat from his 1995 song, “Hip 2 Da Game.” But this happens all the time right? Newer artists pay homage by going in over a legend’s beat? And it’s free so they’re not even profiting off it? It should be all love, right? Wrong. Lord Finesse feels he’s responsible for Mac’s career, and wants $10 million in damages for “copyright infringement, unfair competition, unjust enrichment, interference and deceptive trade practices.” This is absolutely absurd to me. See how Mac feels about it via Twitter below.
Who are you riding with on this one?
Damn Lord Finesse,Digging In The Crates crew! That’s going way back! I actually see dude here in the BX just walking around like a regular dude,LOL!
Exactly way to put it macmiller keep on rocking as well. However, in my opinion as a huge fan of Oscar Peterson one of the best jazz pianists who ever walked this earth and a jazz musician and keyboardist myself, you and the legendary Lord Finesse, should pay peterson’s estate some money because in my opinion jazz music and jazz musicians deserves more respect in America and across the world even though I love hip hop as well and actually played on happy days with termanologyst and bunbtrillog and work with statikselekt all the time. Yo to everyone out there check out @Statikselekt and termanologyst new album it’s amazing 2012 and also check out jazz music as well it’s very similar.