DRAKE ACCUSED OF STEALING MUSIC And Lying About Permission

<h1 class="hf1" style="font-size: 40px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <span style="color: purple;">DRAKE</span></h1> <h3 class="hf2" style="font-size: 72px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 65px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <span style="color: purple;">ACCUSED OF STEALING MUSIC</span></h3> <h2 class="hf3-case" style="font-size: 58px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 54px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;"> <span style="color: purple;">And Lying About Permission</span></h2> <h5 class="article-posted-date" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 6px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="color: red;">4/16/2014</span></h5> <a class="headline" href="http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/16/drake-sued-stealing-lyrics-pound-cake-lawsuit/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: white; color: #106296; display: block; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></a><br /> <div class="article-content" style="margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div class="primary-image-swipe" style="background-color: #c90202; color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; left: 5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; position: absolute; text-transform: uppercase; top: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;"> EXCLUSIVE</div> <div style="padding: 11px 0px;"> <img src="http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/04/16/0416-drake-getty-3.jpg" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">Drake</strong><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;"> cheated and lied on his latest album -- shamelessly stealing a jazz musician's lyrics and then lying on the album that he got permission -- so claims the jazz musician's people.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">The song in question is "Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2."   The song begins with a 35 second monologue from a 1982 song -- "Jimmy Smith Rap" -- recorded by jazz musician Jimmy Smith.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">According to a new lawsuit Drake never got permission to use the clip.  Even worse, represented in the liner notes that the clip was properly licensed.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">Jimmy's dead, but his Estate insists in the lawsuit NO permission was given nor did anyone ask for it.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Source Sans Pro, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; word-spacing: 0.17em;">The Estate is going after Drake, Cash Money Records and a bunch of others ... gunning for more than $300K</span></span></div> </div>

DRAKE ACCUSED OF STEALING MUSIC And Lying About Permission

DRAKE ACCUSED OF STEALING MUSIC And Lying About Permission 4/16/2014 EXCLUSIVE Drake  cheated and lied on his latest album -- s...

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