Lord Finesse Sues Mac Miller For $10 Million

If you're going to try to rise to hip hop stardom before your 21st birthday, it helps to make sure you're not borrowing material from people with better lawyers than you. Or stealing, as Lord Finesse claims Mac Miller has done. The hip hop veteran is now suing the 20-year-old rapper for sampling his 1995 instrumental "Hip 2 Da Game"--to the tune of $10 million. The offending track, "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" off Mac's K.I.D.S. mixtape, certainly helped propel the young artist to stardom--and Finesse says it's no coincidence.

"This is a case about a teenage rapper--Mac Miller--copying the music from a song written, produced and performed by Lord Finesse, a hip hop legend, changing the title and then distributing it under his own name in order to launch his music career," states a complaint filed by Lord Finesse's lawyers. The suit alleges "copyright infringement, unfair competition, unjust enrichment, interference, deceptive trade practices, and a number of related state law claims." Yikes.

Sampling the classics is certainly not unheard of in today's mixtape culture, and it's easy to see how Finesse's complaint might seem antiquated in an age when everyone's a borrower. If this tweet is any indication, it seems like Lord Finesse's beef is with the overall trend of profiting from borrowed material than with just Mac Miller himself.

As of now, there's been no Twitter noise on Mac's end. Will Lord Finesse make good on his ten mil, or will Mac get away with banking on someone else's beat?

UPDATE: Mac Miller has just tweeted that "experience is worth more than a dollar" and "i aint hidin." Okay then.

Lord Finesse Sues Mac Miller For $10 Million | Prefix

lol @ suing mac miller from the kids mixtape song

homie was worth about 5$ back then

how can you sue for a mixtape song unless he preformed it live

soooo hes suin him for sampling a beat that he used a sample on in the first place??

this is the only way he could sue him

[pic] Mac Miller - "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" live in San Diego - YouTube

wayne and frank ocean ran into this problem also


but who is gonna sue lord finesse for the sample [pic]

Mac miller a notorious beat stealer and gives no props to the people he steals from. !! him........it ain't that gangsta !! wit out jj in it doe

Mac Miller lost then

thats corny man , Mac was doign that straight for fun and out of the love of hip hop at the time,

right.... lord finesse doesnt own rights to the sample in the first place... he owns the rights to the composition.. but not the sample itself..

Soooooo I dont understand how he's tryin to pull this off... and the worst they'll do is make him take it off the net...

smh you know the game !!ed up when u got the pioneers suing the kids comin up when they were the same ones !!in about it back in the day....

10 mil.. lol what a !!in joke

this will get thrown out....................................................... 10 mil for a mixtape song... ok buddy

This nicca lookin for bankroll

but this ain;t the first time Mac an crew got caught for stealin beats.

get ya money brotha. yall niccas always talkin like y'all lawyers or some !!

...[pic] @ YouTube Got Paid. No They Didnt....There No ADs On Any Videos For "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza".

I Mean Damn, I Dont !! With The Kid But No Need To Lie On Him For A Retweet.[pic]

Hip-Hop Lost

aint nobody talkin like a lawyer.. I just know copyright laws...

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This dude Finesse wants 10 mil from mac miller? ---->[pic]


will he get it? ------------------------------------>[pic]

Black artist have been getting sued for years for not clearing samples. Half the time the artist suing doesn't even own the music being sampled, but labels still make money of the artist being sued. Right or wrong. Somebody would've sued his[..] for the same thing if he hasnt been sued already. So if thats the case why should he let wac miller get away with it??? Finesse also sued at&t for using some !! that sounded like his some years ago. And he said the same thing. If he would've used they !! they would've sued him.

How would u feel if somebody took your !!, got famous and tried to spin it on some mixtape !! after years of dealing with label drama??? He might b bitter about the !!. If he paid to have the sample cleared then he should sue. I cant say I agree or disagree, but that's the bigger picture he's talkin about.

But 10mill is extreme though. Wtf is that???