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Travis Scott Entangled In 'Highest In The Room' Lawsuit
Will Smith Uses His Mighty Social Media Platforms To Tackle Racial Injustice
Danish producer Ben- jamin Lasnier has filed a lawsuit claiming Travis Scott’s “Highest In The Room” single used a guitar melody without permission.
According to documents obtained by TMZ, Lasnier says he wrote and recorded the track’s guitar refrain in early 2019 before shopping it around to artists and produc- ers. He eventually connected with a man named Jamie Lepe, a.k.a. Jimmy Cash, who’s credited as an engineer on multiple Scott songs.
Lasnier allegedly sent Lepe a beat pack containing the guitar melody, but the two didn’t come to any agreement for its use. He later heard a tweaked version of the melody
Will Smith is sharing mes- sages about the ongoing fight against racial injustice with his massive social media following (45.8 million users on Insta- gram, to be exact). The movie superstar posted a video titled “No Justice, No Peace” high- lighting the widespread action taken after the police killing of George Floyd.
“You always have a fight you don’t see coming,” Smith says
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in the opening clip. “I think there’s a historical river that is
running red with the blood of truth-tellers. The beauty of being American, when we’re scared, we reach for our higher selves and not our lower selves.”
The video features iconic civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela as well as Barack Obama’s recent speech about the protests around the coun- try.
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on Scott’s “Highest In The Room,” which was released in October 2019. He claims the arpeggio (or broken chord) he created appears around 24 times in the song.
T. I. Helps Bring Awareness To Tamla Horsford’s Mysterious Death
Amid the worldwide protests and fight for racial equality, there’s been a re- newed interest in the mysteri- ous death of Tamla Horsford — and T. I. is help- ing to lead the charge.
Horsford was a black mother of five who died during a 2018 sleepover with seven white women. Her death was
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ruled accidental and the case was closed, but many don’t be- lieve it was an accident at all. On Tuesday (June 9), the Hus- tle Gang boss shared a screen- shot of a tweet questioning Horsford’s death along with a photo taken by the women on the night in question.
“FYI,” he wrote in the cap- tion.
Drake Calls Out Lawyer Of Fired George Floyd Cop: 'S**t Is Foul To Watch'
Drake is speaking out after a lawyer hired to represent one of the three officers charged with aiding and abet- ting George Floyd’s murder attempted to drum up a per- ceived weak defense on live television.
Attorney Earl Gray, who’s representing Thomas Lane, appeared on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” on Monday night (June 8) and
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suggested bystanders should’ve stepped in if Floyd’s predicament was so dire.
The OVO boss responded to Gray’s comments in one of his Instagram Stories, writing, “Thomas Lane lawyer strug- gling through an ATTEMPT to justify this situation live on television...can’t even decided how to defend his client. this s**t is foul to watch.”
Pusha T’s Manager Steven Victor Pledges $1M To Fight Systemic Racism
Steven Victor, the longtime manager of Pusha T, has pledged $1 million to combat racial injustice.
With the donation, the senior vice president of A&R at Univer- sal Music Group is also launch- ing his Victor Victor Foundation. He detailed the reasoning for his choice of cause in a statement to Variety on Tuesday (June 9).
“The injustices against the black community that persists in our country, fueled by systemic racism and prejudice that lies
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within the criminal justice sys- tem and other institutions, must stop,” Victor said. “No one should be conditioned to cope with the worst of humanity on a
daily basis. That’s not what I want for my children or yours. I remain hopeful for the next gen- eration and I am committed to doing my part.”
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