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Metal Fingers Francis retweeted
"You hear words like 'the GOAT,' or 'icon,' or 'legend.' And they're thrown around way too easily these days. But Ernie is all three and more. I'm 65 years old, and I still look up to Ernie Johnson as a broadcaster and a man."
- Mike Breen to open the 76ers-Pacers ESPN broadcast
Ernie Johnson announces this will be his final season hosting ‘Inside the NBA’ awfulannouncing.com/tnt-spor…
Is that the reason he name dropped Luda?
DJ Toomp heard a Playaz Circle song and told 2Chainz he loved it so much he was going to use the same sample. He ended up remaking the same exact beat and sample, he gives it to Jay-Z who then puts it on American Gangster and it steps on any chance of it becoming their follow up single to Duffle Bag Boy. Years later 2Chainz asks Jay for a feature and he declines… 2Chainz hates Toomp til this day. 😂
Blurred Lines was really the best thing and worst thing to happen to these guys
In 2015, Marvin Gaye’s family won $7.4 million from Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over “Blurred Lines.” Thicke had named Gaye as his inspiration, then testified he was high and barely wrote it.
In the video below, Thicke is asked if he lies in interviews. “I was high and drunk every time I did an interview last year.”
“Blurred Lines” spent 12 weeks at No. 1 in 2013. Thicke told GQ he loved Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.” He wanted something with that groove. So he and Pharrell wrote one. It took them about half an hour, he said.
That August, Thicke and Pharrell sued the Gaye family first. The song was still No. 1. “Being reminiscent of a ‘sound’ is not copyright infringement,” their suit said.
Under oath in 2014, Thicke told a different story. In this version, Pharrell “wrote almost every single part of the song.” He said he came to the studio “high on Vicodin and alcohol.” Why had he said otherwise in interviews? “I was jealous and I wanted some of the credit.”
In March 2015, a jury found “Blurred Lines” infringed Gaye’s copyright. The song had made $16.7 million in profit. The jury awarded $4 million in damages. It added $3.4 million of the two men’s profits. Gaye’s daughter Nona cried in the courtroom. “Right now, I feel free,” she said outside.
Thicke and Pharrell called the verdict a “horrible precedent for music and creativity.”
Judge John Kronstadt cut the award in July 2015. But he gave the family half of future songwriter and publishing royalties.
An appeals court upheld the verdict in 2018, 2 to 1. Judge Jacqueline Nguyen dissented. She found the songs different in melody, harmony and rhythm. That December, the final judgment came to $4.98 million. The family kept its half of the royalties.
Who owns a groove: the writer’s family, or every musician who hears it?
Oh y’all dumb²
Gotta remind yall every blue moon that @marclamonthill wanted Trump in office. We gotta stop the back peddling
