Young Jeezy and Don Cannon are being sued by Lee Hutson, Sr., according to a lawsuit filed in the Northern District Of Georgia Atlanta Division this week.
In the lawsuit, Hutson, the former lead singer of the R&B group The Impressions, alleges that Young Jeezy and Cannon sampled Hutson’s composition “Getting It On” for their song “Time,” a song included on Young Jeezy’s Trap or Die II mixtape that was produced by Cannon and released in 2010.
Hutson’s lawsuit claims that he did not grant Jeezy and Cannon permission or a license to sample “Getting It On” and that they did not provide credit or any financial compensation for using “Getting It On.”
Young Jeezy and Cannon are accused of copyright infringement and unjust enrichment in the suit, as per allhiphop.com. The site says that Hutson is seeking a trial by jury to determine the damages, a full accounting and attorney fees. Hutson also alleges that Young Jeezy also made a video for “Time,” also without his permission.
Hutson’s lawsuit says that Hutson’s daughter discovered that Young Jeezy and Cannon used “Getting It On” for “Time” while on the website WhoSampled.com.
According to the lawsuit, Hutson’s music has also been sampled by T.I., Paul Wall, Bone thugs-n-harmony, Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg, among others. Earlier in his career, Hutson went by Leroy Hutson.
Both “Getting It On” and “Time” are below.
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he aint gettin no money cuz its on a mixtape so he can take his old ass back in the room wer he came from
And even if he does want to do all that, why 3 years later?
Not necessarily true ^^^^. If Jeezy ever performed this song during one of his sets; whether it be on stage in front of thousands or in a club with about a hundred people in it, he would have to pay up; pending he did in fact get paid for the show.
Things are getting real out here in 2013. The OGs are going broke and struck oil with this whole new way of suing rappers off of mixtape songs. That’s how Mac Miller got sued by Lord Finesse; because Mac sampled a Lord Finesse song, performed it at PAID shows. In order to steer clear of samples usage, you CAN NOT GET MONEY OFF THE SONG OR PERFORM IT AT A PAID FUNCTION.
Actually mac miller used lord finesses beat, which is worse than just using a sample of a song. Producers really just need to learn how to sample without making it obvious you sampled, its not hard to throw some drums on a loop of a soul record
yeah that wasnt a sample he jacked the whole fuckin beat, made a video, got millions of views for it and kind of blew up off that song and a few others
best song on the mixtape
I’am glad someone said it, this and Hood Politics, CLASSIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYPoDFil1r0
this law is such bullshit. this shit needs to change its ruining the most purest and orginal part of hip hop the sample. these petty ass motherfuckers are a bunch of suckas for real fuckin leeches hip hop really will die if this shit continues for another 10 years
Are you an idiot? The guy wrote original music, and it was stolen and sampled by someone that wasn’t authorized to use it. Who gives a shit about hiphop. The original song writer may not give two shits about hiphop and he doesn’t have to. He wrote the original fucking music!
THat’s like if I come along, copy scenes from Die Hard and sell it off with my vocals on top as an original piece. So if I get sued, my defense should be “Well this is a new artform that demands I steal other people’s work and pass it off as my own!”
Lol @ Young Cheesy , fucking idiot. Don Cannon sorry I mean Fido, u a chump ass nigga bitch, All u are is Mariah’s lap dog u little faggot.
Co-sign on the Don Cannon comment that nicca is a bitch.
hiphop samples too much. where is the creativity? why cant these producers come up with original sound? create your own beat instead of sampling. once u meet a producer for a beat or to make a beat for u the first thing they do is dig into their oldies vinyl collection.Hip hop fake as hell…that goes for DJ PREMIER,KANYE WEST, DJ KHALED,J. R. ROTEM, JAZZE PHA, DANJA,B!NK, BANGLADESH, NO ID, LEX LUGER, MIKE-WILL-DIDNT-MAKE-THE-BEAT, DRUMMER BOY —->WILL-I-AM, PHARELL WILLIAMS
why dont u jump in the game and produce some hot shit
All genre of music sample from the past idiot
Niggaz is stupid 2013 and still getting sued for not clearing samples are you for real
A lot of people dont clear samples for mixtapes because they are giving them away for free . if they are not making money with the music there is nothing for the original rights owner to sue for. However what gets some artist in trouble is when they perform there mixtape songs live if they get paid for the show ( or any other way that can be proven for that matter) that opens up the door to say they made money with it and they can be sued for both actual and punitive damages which can actually end up exceeding the amount of money they made off the song.
nasa and area 51 tap in your pagers and phones they telling ppl news is fake and yal trying to set ppl up/
That “i’m untouchable” shit moves around like a virus… these dudes are a trip… If anyone has time i’d appreciate if you checked out my debut tape- thank you
sure i’ll check out your tape
Oh wait! your a fucktard you didnt tell us who the fuck you are or a link
Great job champ!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPBKtyE0X9U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI-KjVLS6Uk
Give credit where it’s due and you won’t get sued.
Simple as that.