GZA's Record Label Sues U-God's Promotion Team Over Leaked Song"

[IronFist]

"GZA's Record Label Sues U-God'sPromotion Team Over Leaked Song"

The teams behind two Wu-Tang Clansmen are involved in a $75,000 lawsuit over the U-God song "Heads Up," which Babygrande Records says belongs on GZA's "Dark Matter Album."


Babygrande Records, who has released GZA's 2008 album Pro Tools and is slated to release his upcoming album, Dark Matter, has sued Domingo Neris, U-God's promoters Frank 151 Media Group and Malbon Brothers Farms, who were involved with his recent Keynote Speaker release. The teams behind the two founding members of the Wu-Tang Clan are in dispute over the song and subsequent video "Heads Up," a track Babygrande alleges, belonged on Dark Matter, not KeynoteSpeaker.

The New York Daily News reports that Babygrande is seeking $75,000 from U-God's team. “When [the GZA] was making the recording [for U-God], it was not clear to them that he was doing it for commercial purposes," said an unnamed source claiming to be close to the label.

Frank 151, in conjunction with Babygrande, released U-God's previous album, 2009's Dopium. This year's Keynote Speaker, however, released on RZA's Soul Temple Records.

“GZA has been extremely selective with respect to the vocal features he contributes,” court documents read, noting that the label has lost business because it can’t take advantage of “the paucity of recent GZA musical material (with the unfortunate exception of the single and video).”

Neris denies he and his company DNES Marketing were involved with “Heads Up.” “We had no idea this was happening. My company had nothing to do with the release,” Neris said in the report.

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/...-sues-u-god-s-promotion-team-over-leaked-song

 

[Loud Still Coolin]

babygrande been sunk ship. they still active indy label? thought they was frauds.

 

[IronFist]

always something with the clan

 

[SoulController]

babygrande been sunk ship. they still active indy label? thought they was frauds.

i thought so too, the guy that runs it is a dirtbag and has been screwing artists for years

apparently GZA signed a 2 album deal, so that could be why Dark Matter is taking so long

 

[Dat Migo]

U-god has a promotion team?

 

[yesiambowling]

Does U-God even have 75k to give him?

 

[notorious8562]

I'm confused, these three sentences don't seem to be compatible:

The teams behind two Wu-Tang Clansmen are involved in a $75,000 lawsuit over the U-God song "Heads Up," which Babygrande Records says belongs on GZA's "Dark Matter Album."

The New York Daily News reports that Babygrande is seeking $75,000 from U-God's team. “When [the GZA] was making the recording [for U-God], it was not clear to them that he was doing it for commercial purposes," said an unnamed source claiming to be close to the label.
[...]
“GZA has been extremely selective with respect to the vocal features he contributes,” court documents read, noting that the label has lost business because it can’t take advantage of “the paucity of recent GZA musical material (with the unfortunate exception of the single and video).”

The first implies that the track was meant for Dark Matter; the second that the label is just pissed that GZA didn't charge for the feature. It doesn't sound like a track I'd expect to be on Dark Matter, so I'm assuming the first quote is wrong.