You would think rappers and producers would have learned their lesson by now. Almost always, if you sample someone’s song, they’ll end up hearing it…even
A woman in New York is suing Beyoncé and Jay Z for custody of Blue Ivy Carter. According to the Daily Mail, Tina Seals says
Former hip-hop mogul Dame Dash is suing filmmaker Lee Daniels for $25 million, according to Dash’s lawyer Natraj Bhushan. Dame has stated that he helped fund movie projects for Daniels and was never repaid for his financial contributions.
Perhaps another instance of “when keeping it real goes wrong,” media powerhouse Viacom is being sued by a Georgia family for showing the dead body
In a desperate attempt to derail the Obama presidency and upset the will of the people, the House voted along party lines to sue the
Recently Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner announced that he intends to sue President Barack Obama. The lawsuit is based on what many Republicans
Pamela Swanigan, a graduate student at the University of Connecticut, claims she was lied to by campus administrators who told her they’d given her a
It looks like Katy Perry has some more explaining to do. After being accused of using stereotypical images of black women onstage during her performances, the
Back in 1989 a brutal story of rape out of New York gripped the nation. A 28-year-old female investment banker who liked to go jogging
Wiz Khalifa is in trouble with the law again. The Pittsburgh rapper was recently named in a bizarre lawsuit filed by a West Virginia man.
Historically black Alabama State University is being sued over its treatment of two gay, white male professors. Dr. John Garland filed a lawsuit on June
A group of 3,000 former Warner Music Group interns have been approved to file a class action lawsuit against the recording label giant, according to Complex. The news comes a week after a New York federal judge approved a lawsuit that claimed WMG violated minimum wage and overtime requirements as well as other Fair Labor Standard Act regulations.
Tyler Perry has filed a lawsuit against the producers of his hit television sitcom “For Better or Worse” that is currently airing on OWN, the
An inmate in a California prison has filed a rather bizarre lawsuit against some of the biggest names in music. Richard Dupree is suing Beyoncé,
50 Cent may have found himself in legal hot water after going off on Twitter. The hip-hop star blasted video model Sally Ferreira last month on the popular social network. 50 has claimed that Ferreira has been claiming that the two are an item and also accused her of sharing behind-the-scenes photos from a March 23 music video shoot for the song “Big Rich Town”
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s recent VOGUE cover has led to criticism, parody and now–a lawsuit. Former child star, singer Ricky Spicer, has filed a lawsuit against the magazine over music featured in a behind-the-scenes video for the KimYe photo shoot. Spicer was the pre-teen lead singer of a soul group called The Ponderosa Twins Plus One, a Jackson 5-esque 70s act. Kanye’s single “Bound 2” samples Spicer’s voice and was the background music for the behind-the-scenes video.
The vast majority of religious institutions receive non-profit status and pay no taxes. That goes for many preachers’ personal income as well, but the preachers
In “WTF?” news…five European fans of the late great Michael Jackson scored a somewhat strange courtroom victory as they successfully sued Jackson’s former doctor Conrad
Looks like Frank Ocean will have some explaining to do in copyright court soon. Ocean is being accused of illegally sampling Mary J. Blige’s 1992 hit
Dr. Dre was one of the people most responsible for launching the famed Death Row Records in the early 1990s, and he was also a major factor in the label’s chart-topping success throughout the decade. But now, the superproducer is suing his former label for more than $3 million in unpaid royalties.
