Bosses at music label Tuf America launched a legal battle against the Intergalactic hitmakers last week, alleging the band illegally sampled Trouble Funk's Say What and Drop The Bomb on four of its early tunes - The New Style, Car Thief, Shadrach, and Hold It, Now Hit It.
Tuf America chiefs are seeking a trial to determine the appropriate amount of damages, according to AllHipHop.com.
The papers were filed at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday, just one day before Yauch, also known as MCA, plunged the music world into shock and mourning by losing his three-year battle with cancer.
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Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz has reached out to Beastie Boys fans following the death of bandmate Adam Yauch and thanked his family and friends for their...
There is usually one band you can look back on and think "these guys raised me, they remained the definition of cool throughout the years, I wanted to be like them and studied everything they did." For me, and for many others across generations, that was the Beastie Boys.
Yauch was not only a musical pioneer with Beasties; he was an activist and humanitarian. Wherever there was injustice, there was Yauch, wherever there was a voice to be given to the voiceless, there was Yauch.
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WENN | Posted: 08/05/2012 16:38 Updated: 08/05/2012 16:54