Jay-Z is one of the world’s most successful rappers, a businessman, and an entrepreneur who has made history time and time again. He has released many hit songs over the years, from “Can I Get A…” to ...

The hip-hop mogul and producer Timbaland are defending the use of an Egyptian song in the 1999 hit. By Austin Siegemund-Broka To hear Jay Z tell it, there was one big misunderstanding in the ...

Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin” was one of the biggest records of his career and while it featured UGK (Bun B and Pimp C), Pimp C actually had his reservations about getting on the track when he first heard it.

More than 15 years after Jay Z and Timbaland’s “Big Pimpin’” thumped in ubiquity across the suburbs of America, the two men are ensnared in an unusual copyright-infringement trial. According to the AP ...

Exactly how does the concept of "moral rights" cover — or not cover — the rapper's 1999 chart-topper? By Austin Siegemund-Broka Jay Z H 2015 In Egyptian law, “economic rights” licensable to others are ...

The new legal salvo, which argues that the song's references to prostitution describe the rapper's views on women, comes amid a backlash to citing rap lyrics in court cases. By Bill Donahue Locked in ...

Today (April 11), marks the 17th anniversary of Jay Z's classic hip-hop banger "Big Pimpin'" featuring UGK. The Timbaland-produced song, which served as the lead single off Jigga's fourth studio album ...

Jay-Z's 'Big Pimpin'' was a smash hit for him in 2000, but now it's becoming a big legal problem for the rap mogul and the song's producer Timbaland. In a lawsuit filed in California on July 23, Ahab ...

LOS ANGELES — Jay Z told a jury Wednesday that he believes he has a valid license to use Arabic music featured on his 1999 hit "Big Pimpin'" that is now the subject of a copyright infringement trial.

In a lawsuit more than four years in the making, Jay Z has finally testified in a dispute over his hit 1999 song "Big Pimpin'", in which a relative of Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdy claimed he made a ...

Even as arguably to be of the game’s most successful artists, Jay-Z still has some regrets about the decisions made in his career and more specifically, the songs that he offered up to the public ...