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Judge Bans Biggie Abum Due to Illegal Sample

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
By: Kenny Rodriguez


Notorious BIGA judge has banned sales of the late Notorious BIG’s 1994 album, Ready To Die, due to copyright violations dealing with music sampling.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell put an immediate stop to all sales of Biggies album after a Nashville jury said the title track contains an illegal sample of the 1992 tune "Singing in the Morning," by the Ohio Players. The ban affects the album in every form, including online downloads and radio airplay.

Bridgeport Music and Westbound Records own the rights to the original Ohio Players recording, and both companies were awarded $4.2 million in punitive damages. Rap mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs executively produced the album, and the defendants – Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy LLC, Justin Combs Publishing, and Universal Records – plan to appeal the ruling.

In related news, the Los Angeles Police Department is revisiting the Notorious BIG’s 1997 unsolved murder. A new team of police officers was assigned to take a second look at the case, said assistant city attorney Don Vincent.
This comes years after Biggie’s family accused rogue police officer David Mack of murdering him on behalf of Death Row Records’ Suge Knight. The lawsuit ended in a mistrial last summer when previously undisclosed statements were found linking Mack to the murder. The judge ruled that the evidence was deliberately concealed by the police, and ordered the city to pay more than a million dollars to Biggie’s family.
The New York rapper, born Christopher Wallace but also known as Biggie Smalls, was 24 when he was killed in 1997, and was one of the most influential hip-hop artists of the 1990s.



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That's crazy they wait all this longtime to sue i guess they waited until after all the sales had accumulate,ringtones,etc.etc. To bring it up....oh well music is a cut filthy busy anyway....
Posted by Black Congress
^ hell yeah
Posted by Crim
Just another attack on hip-hop rip big
Posted by MRDAVIS33
Wow that is F*ck*ng insane....the mans dead and theyr still trying to bring him down
Posted by IrishODB
Stupid ass sean combs
Posted by anthologyosu09
Damn that sucks. This is going to rob the "lean wit it, rock wit it" and the "shake that laffy taffy" generation of what real hiphop is about. Im suprised puffy, "the sample king" didnt get that song cleared.
Posted by CEmejuru
Damn..i believe you should make music that either sells and has no substance or has substance and doesnt sell. That "lean wit it, rock wit it", and "shake that laffy taffy sh*t doesnt fit the description.
Posted by CEmejuru
That music company is tellin puff,,,"take that,take that,,i thought i told you that we won't stop,,,till you pay us our dough for the samples"...they just doin puff like he did all his artists,an producers who weren't paid for production..
Posted by dlking1
Damn, they late. If u aint got ready to die by now, then u slippin. Besides u can download it for free anyway.
Posted by MISTA WILL
People should have already realized that ready to die is a huge sample.
Posted by virtuousmind
That judge is a F*ck*ng knobhead, if you want to pull any album off the streets pull off 50 cent the massacre, not a classic like ready to die. What are you playing at puff not clearing a sample. This will just encourage piracy as the album can't be bought legally. Virtuousmind have you even properly listened to ready to die it is an absolute classic, listen to the rhymes not just to the beat and you will see this.
Posted by Spider bloke
Frist of all,i would just like to say fuk the ploice,(i just had to get that off my chest) it's been dam near 10 years since bigs untimely death, and still no suspects, that's some bull sh*t, if niel diamond, or michael bolton, would have been killed like that they would have found the muderers that same week, as far as the ban on the ready to die ablum, that's some bogus sh*t also, but i blame puff, this stud is just always linked to dam near eveery F*cked up situation in hip hop over the last 10 to 12 years, a classic ablum gone to waste.
Posted by Eric young Infinite
Naah, they do have a suspect for bigs murder, the cops in la just covered it up. It was that cat david mack or something like that, some blood dude that was childhood friends with suge. He was a crooked cop who went to jail for robbing a bank, but anyway he (mack) didnt off bigs, it was some muslim dude...i forget what they said. Man they show that on vh1 like err'blue moon. Some cop quit because he said he didnt believe how the bosses swept that under the rug. Check for that show dawg. Anyway puff a real lame azz when it comes to giving ppl whats theirs......he should have just crossed his t's and dotted his i's and paid err'body. I know the sample wouldnt have cost him millions but thats what you get for being a smart dumb azz.
Posted by Kalliope4eva
Realli stupid every biggie fan has got acopy, already, really funni 2
Posted by DjPhiziQue
Thats dumb the albums has been out for 12yrs
Posted by kevindagame
Diddy is the one who looks stupid here.
Posted by ItWasWritten
Why is it puff keeps putting out cds,watches, t'shirts, buttons, verses on other ppls albums, dayem near err'thang under the sun with biggies name all over it, then he says that same ole statement..."im doing this to honor, my man biggie" i got a gold digger/backstabber/snake in the grass translation book and it said that phase really means "yo, im trying to make money eventho i dont factor into the hip hop present or the future so imma keep making money the best way i can, off someones elses legacy." at least suge keeps it real and just released about two joints with pacs old material like to hell with it, one monkey dont stop no show imma get paid. But whats next puff using bigs name to stay relivent in hip hop..but he tarnishing bigs name by putting artists like nelly on his shyt, or dayem missy (no disprespect to any of those artist but c'mon). Next hes gonna put out biggie coco puffs....smh. Oh he doing it to honor his man tho. Smh.
Posted by Kalliope4eva
I luv justin combs.....how old is he??.....cuz im 11
Posted by kelsie
They should of keept the album for sale because biggies dead so who really cares about the sample the albums is the best album ever and puff should have just got the sample approved and none of this mess ever would have happend biggies one of the best rapers that ever lived anyway i have the album and i listen to it heaps and puff daddys was taking all biggies songs and putting it on his album like victory and also jay-z taking some of biggies rymes and saying that it was his own. Everone should have a copy of this album you dont know what your missing out on
Posted by Naler Da Killa

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