Blog: Idolator

In what has to be one of the worst-timed legal actions ever (not that there's ever a good time to get sued, mind you), hip hop/R&B record label Tuf America filed a lawsuit against Beastie Boys last Thursday — one day before band member Adam Yauch lost his life to cancer —  in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The suit claims that two songs by the label's artist Trouble Funk were illegally sampled on four Beastie songs from 1986 album [...]