Derrick Price, Doc Mob Records and IHip Hop Music have filed an $18 million lawsuit over the rights to the music on the hit song "Bottoms Up." The lawsuit names Trey Songz, Atlantic Records, Kodak, manager Gee Robertson, producer Kane Beatz and others.
Filed on February 2nd in New York city, the suit claims that Doc Mob hired producer Milton James aka "Tony Scales" to produce the original, copyrighted track for "Bottoms Up" for his company, Doc Mob Records. The suit further claims that track was produced in Derrick's home studio.
After Milton allowed Kane Beatz to add production to the song, it eventually ended up on Trey Songz' album Passion, Pain and Pleasure. Having a hit song on a hit album should have been exciting for Doc Mob; however, the album only lists Kane Beatz as producer of the song. Womp Womp.
Doc Mob's Derrick Price says he sent multiple cease-and-desist letters to Atlantic Records and Trey Songz, but they were ignored. And now Kodak has been added to the $18 million dollar lawsuit, because they used the song in an advertising campaign featuring Trey Songz.
SMH. Since Derrick has a copyrighted version for "Bottoms Up," it looks like he has a good case. And whoever ignored those cease-and-desist letters may be looking for a job soon....
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