Legal Battle Over ”Big Pimpin”’ Continues
The ongoing legal wrangling involving Jay-Z’s hit “Big Pimpin'” continues, as a new lawsuit has been filed against Jay and the song’s producer, Timbaland. On July 23rd, Ahab Joseph Nafal filed a $5,000,000 lawsuit in United States District Court, Central District of California.
The suit contends that the song “Khosara, Khosara,” was sampled illegally in “Big Pimpin’.” A lawsuit was dismissed in 2007, because Nafal failed to join all individuals with rights to the composition in the lawsuit, as the 1909 Act mandates. A federal judge in May ruled that the children of Baligh Hamdy were allowed to continue the suit after it was ruled Jay-Z and Timbaland had only obtained “economic rights” for the song and that Hamdy’s other children never granted permission to use the sample.
Jay-Z, Roc-A-Fella Records, Def Jam, Warner Music Group, Linkin Park (who contributed to a remixed version) and Def Jam are all named in the lawsuit.
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