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 ...

Are the days of hearing one of Jay Z's biggest hits in concert over? An Egyptian film composer's heir seeks an injunction. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large The marathon litigation over Jay ...

The title to Kurt Vile’s sixth album, B’lieve I’m Goin Down…, reads like someone at their wits’ end. This is it, it’s all over now, you might think. But Vile’s 2015 single “Pretty Pimpin” uses humor ...

The rapper and producer Timbaland were accused of mutilating a song first featured in a 1960 Egyptian film. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large The legal dispute over Jay-Z’s 1999 mega-hit, ...

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 ...

It's his first No. 1 on any Billboard airplay chart. By Kevin Rutherford Kurt Vile notches a career-first No. 1, collecting his initial leader on a Billboard airplay ...

Jay Z and Timbaland have won a lawsuit alleging that they infringed on the rights to a sample used in the former’s 2000 hit “Big Pimpin’.” A judge ruled Wednesday that the nephew of Egyptian composer ...

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 ...

Pimping has always been a recurring theme in rap music, but few stay in touch with their inner Iceberg Slim as effectively as does JT Money, a rapper whose debut, Pimpin On Wax, is a veritable concept ...

There's no dispute that Jay Z's 1999 hit "Big Pimpin' " includes elements of a 1950s Egyptian love ballad, yet the flute notes taken from "Khosara Khosara" have created a lingering problem for the ...

The marathon litigation over Jay Z's sampling of an old Egyptian tune for his blockbuster song "Big Pimpin'" took a new turn on Wednesday after the nephew of a deceased Egyptian composer filed a new… ...