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So, who's more gangsta: the Rolling Stones or Lil Wayne? Before you answer, consider the cinematic drug busts, the pacesetting debauchery, and the career-negating legal pimp slaps that the Stones and their handlers have laid down over the years. As Mick Jagger once sang, "Don't play with me, 'cos you're playing with fire."
Oh yeah... and speaking of that particular song... seems like Monsieur
Weezy has crossed Jagger, Richards and the rest by
sampling/appropriating/interpolating their '60s b-side, "Play With
Fire" without permission on his Carter III track "Playing With
Fire." Just ask Richard Ashcroft: all of those impressive sales figures
for Lil Wayne's new album could be for naught if the Stones' publisher,
Abkco Music Inc., has its way.
Abkco filed suit against Lil Wayne over the track, claiming the rapper's "explicit,
sexist and offensive language” could make the Stones look bad by
association. All of which proves that the suits at Abkco have never
read the lyrics to "Brown Sugar."
Also named in the suit was Wayne's label, which is a cog in the great Universal Music Group juggernaut. And that leads us to the next little Rolling Stones news tidbit... according to Billboard.com,
the band is leaving its previous roost at EMI and moving on to the
wonderful artist's haven of... wait... Universal Music Group?
So let's get this straight: the Stones are starting a new relationship
with Universal while their publisher tries to sue the company's pants
off? And yet Universal sounds overjoyed
to have the dudes aboard, mostly because having the Stones on your
team is a license to print money. Now tell us...how gangsta is that?
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I'm sorry, but the lyrics to Brown Sugar have nothing vulgar in comparison to the songs of lil' Wayne. Plus, even if lil wayne's obscene vulgarity wasn't an issue, I can understand why the Rolling Stones publisher wouldn't want to have their name associated with crappy music.
A rock and a hard place if ever there was one.
Most rap artists steal other people's music in the first place, that's how the genre began. Young lazy ghetto black kid's won't learn an instrument, won't even learn to speak proper english ( I'm black I can say that, call me Cosby )
And yet the Stone's have had they're day, and should just go away and leave the world in peace...
Rap was the Jewish dominated media, to cheap riches' not much production cost's and kid's with no moral compass of anykind...so call me anti semtic ( although I'm not )
the music business is a mess, it will remain a mess for the rest of my lifetime.
A rock and a hard place if ever there was one.
Most rap artists steal other people's music in the first place, that's how the genre began. Young lazy ghetto black kid's won't learn an instrument, won't even learn to speak proper english ( I'm black I can say that, call me Cosby )
And yet the Stone's have had they're day, and should just go away and leave the world in peace...
Rap was the Jewish dominated media's way to cheap riches' not much production cost's and kid's with no moral compass of anykind...so call me anti semtic ( although I'm not )
the music business is a mess, it will remain a mess for the rest of my lifetime.