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Boom Boom Pow! Lynn Tolliver Wins Suit Against Black Eyed Peas

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Lynn Tolliver - you might remember him from WZAK (93.1) - has won a lawsuit against the Black Eyed Peas over the sampling of one of an obscure 1983 song titled "I Need A Freak" in the Peas' hit song "My Humps". The suit, worth $1.2 million, is a "blessing" for the now-unemployed Tolliver, a thirty-year radio veteran (who spent close to two decades at WZAK) who claims he's spent the last two years writing "300 songs".
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2011/06/former_cleveland_dj_lynn_tolli.htm
 
DToTheJ said:
Lynn Tolliver - you might remember him from WZAK (93.1) - has won a lawsuit against the Black Eyed Peas over the sampling of one of an obscure 1983 song titled "I Need A Freak" in the Peas' hit song "My Humps". The suit, worth $1.2 million, is a "blessing" for the now-unemployed Tolliver, a thirty-year radio veteran (who spent close to two decades at WZAK) who claims he's spent the last two years writing "300 songs".
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2011/06/former_cleveland_dj_lynn_tolli.htm
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http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2011/06/former_cleveland_dj_lynn_tolli.html (corrected URL, the last letter was accidentally missing) :)

Wow. Another reason for me to hate "My Humps" even more. (Before anyone asks, I was at a weekend leadership retreat back in the fall of 2006, where the organizers played that song 40+ times that whole weekend. I hated it then, I still hate it now.)

And good for Lynn. Had no idea the case took 10 years! "Humps" was released to the public in 2005.
 
I think Lynn was also referring to the amount of time he'd been tangling in the courts with the guy who was acting as though the rights were his to license.
 
X-Nooz said:
I think Lynn was also referring to the amount of time he'd been tangling in the courts with the guy who was acting as though the rights were his to license.
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Ah. That makes sense.

If this interview is to be believed, "My Humps" was to have originally been performed by the Pussycat Dolls, then writer will.i.am handed it back to his band, the Black Eyed Peas. Allegedly the band didn't even plan on releasing it as a single. Sure... </sarc>
 
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