DJ Khalil is seemingly having the same problem as the Alchemist did, selling the same beat to two different people. He has done so with The Rascalz and Keith Murray. An unnamed member of the Rascalz camp filled hiphopsite in on what happened. Keep in mind that there are two sides to every story and Khalid has not spoken his piece yet.
“We bought a track from DJ Khalil (Self-Scientific) back in the summer of 2001; that track (“Movie Star”) can now be heard as the lead-single to Rascalz upcoming LP Reloaded. However, early this year, Khalil called the group up and asked if the crew was planning on only releasing the track in Canada and then proceeded to ask if he could the track back? The Rascalz who had already recorded “Movie Star” and were very happy with it (happy enough to have it be the lead-single) reiterated that they already had plans to use the track and “would not have paid for it if they did not want it.”
A few weeks later Khalil placed another call to the group and said that Def Jam had heard the beat and wanted to use it for the upcoming Keith Murray LP Worse, regardless of the fact that The Rascalz have a dated invoice and a copy of the check that Khalil cashed from the track in question, Khalil went ahead and sold the beat to Def Jam anyway.
It wasn’t until after the Rascalz had already cleared the exclusive rights to the sample that Def Jam realized that the beat had already been sold to the Rascalz as well. The publishing company informed them that what they (Def Jam) had submitted was not only the same sample, but the exact same music; the Rascalz had already serviced the single in Canada where their new album drops July 30 2002.”