Pete Rock set to sue Nas over "World is Yours" royalties

[Dizzle]

Pete Rock has shown himself to be an idiot on twitter. This doesn’t surprise me unfortunately.
Dude is such a genius behind the boards. I love his music and respect his influence on hip hop but god dammit he is a stupid individual.

 

[madness]

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something ain't adding up. Pete is listed with BMI for song publishing royalties for writing

he's looking for more?

So then the issue isn’t “a legend not getting paid for his work” since he clearly has been getting paid royalties the last 20+ years…it’s him alleging he had another deal that wasn’t honored? Whatever the issue is I hope they settle it.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Well well well, Gnoz stans what have we here

 

[Awesome Wells]

But he seems like miserable fukk to be around due to his inflated ego.

It's this here.

Most people in the business know, Pete isn't exactly the most-liked guy in the culture. He's pretty much always been miserable, but he's publicly shown it a ton over the past two decades or so. He would be on the air saying wild things about Nas when he had Future Flavas with Marley. Always seemed to honestly hate Nas, for whatever reason. But he's made millions of questionable moves and comments against other artists and producers over the years. Just never seemed like he's ever been happy. So a lot of the shyt that CL was saying about him, has kinda come to light since they broke up. Including how Pete is in serious need of some money. I don’t think this suit goes anywhere for him. No other producer on the album seemed to have any issue with payments from Columbia/Sony. Why would Pete be singled out? Doesn't make any sense.

 

[ledge]

People could talk sh*t about Pete or Nas all they want. But fact of the matter is if you legitimately thought you had a way to get a large amount of money you were contractually owed, you’d bring the lawyers out and go after that paper too

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

People could talk sh*t about Pete or Nas all they want. But fact of the matter is if you legitimately thought you had a way to get a large amount of money you were contractually owed, you’d bring the lawyers out and go after that paper too

so far we've seen that he is properly credited so we will see where this mystery contract came from

 

[Ziggiy]

People could talk sh*t about Pete or Nas all they want. But fact of the matter is if you legitimately thought you had a way to get a large amount of money you were contractually owed, you’d bring the lawyers out and go after that paper too

It certainly wouldn’t take me THIRTY YEARS to do so AFTER I begged for the better part of those years to work with the sane person again

 

[Waterproof]

And Ice Cube needs to pay Sir Jinx for his work on AMW and Death Certificate

 

[HNIC973]

It certainly wouldn’t take me THIRTY YEARS to do so AFTER I begged for the better part of those years to work with the sane person again

Not to mention that same artist took the guy on tour with him to celebrate said album& song. Something not adding up every other producer from that album good but somehow Pete isn't getting credited?

 

[Mike Wins]

People could talk sh*t about Pete or Nas all they want. But fact of the matter is if you legitimately thought you had a way to get a large amount of money you were contractually owed, you’d bring the lawyers out and go after that paper too

That's why it's suspect. If he legit had a contract where he was supposed to get a bigger cut of royalties why he wait almost 30 years to try and legally enforce it?

You notice this hit the press before the lawsuit been filed, meaning he's the source. He's trying to make noise and get a settlement.

But in general I don't think anyone disagree with your point, although this thread getting ridiculously heated for no reason. Dudes need to relax, not that serious

 

[Harry B]

We don’t really know if he’s suing Nas alone or everyone involved. Usually they aim broadly with these lawsuits.

As for people wonder why now. Artists audit their catalogues and different auditors find different alleged irregularities

 

[Awesome Wells]

so far we've seen that he is properly credited so we will see where this mystery contract came from

Truth.

Pete did the same with Q-Tip and Trackmasters and mad other producers. Where he's claimed they owed him money for his ideas. Tip said Pete was accusing him of stealing the beat for "Jazz", and that Pete spent years telling a story that was all lies. Every time Pete was asked about it, he would tell some story about how Tip saw the records he used for it and "stole" the beat by making it again on his own. Tip said, he was supposed to do a joint with Pete and Large Professor, and that Pete didn't have a problem with him making his own version of the beat, until it blew up when he used it for The Low End Theory. Tip said he told Pete he had an idea for something similar and said:

"I wanna hook that beat up!’ And he was like ‘Aight fukk it’. I was like ‘I’m gonna do that shyt and then we can exchange, I’ll give you some shyt’. And he was like ‘Alright, cool’. That was the story, that’s why on it (“We Got The Jazz”) I said ‘Pete Rock for the beat ya don’t stop’."

He tried to sue Puff and Trackmasters for BIG's "Juicy" because he said they stole that from him too. But Trackmasters said Puff wanted that sample flipped and a few people to try to flip it, but he chose their version for the album, and Pete tried to sue them because his version wasn't used. He helped get the YG's signed, and they showed up to the family day picnic they used to have with all the Mt. Vernon rappers, and they walked up on Pete and stomped him out in front of everybody. After Pete got back up, he started running out the park and they chased him. These dudes would either beat-down or chase Pete every time they saw him. At weddings, industry events, etc. Because he had them sign a shady deal, and he was stealing from them. This was around '93. So as much as I love dude's music, Pete has always been known to move funny in business, and just with other artists and producers. It's clearly still a thing with him.

 

[Awesome Wells]

That's why it's suspect. If he legit had a contract where he was supposed to get a bigger cut of royalties why he wait almost 30 years to try and legally enforce it?

You notice this hit the press before the lawsuit been filed, meaning he's the source. He's trying to make noise and get a settlement.

There you go.

Dude was mad that Columbia brought Tip in to remix "The World is Yours" and shot a separate video for it. So he got petty, and started flipping samples that Tip used on Tribe beats for his own shyt and tracks for artists on Soul Brother Records. Pete has been wildin' forever. It's who he is.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Truth.

Pete did the same with Q-Tip and Trackmasters and mad other producers. Where he's claimed they owed him money for his ideas. Tip said Pete was accusing him of stealing the beat for "Jazz", and that Pete spent years telling a story that was all lies. Every time Pete was asked about it, he would tell some story about how Tip saw the records he used for it and "stole" the beat by making it again on his own. Tip said, he was supposed to do a joint with Pete and Large Professor, and that Pete didn't have a problem with him making his own version of the beat, until it blew up when he used it for The Low End Theory. Tip said he told Pete he had an idea for something similar and said:

"I wanna hook that beat up!’ And he was like ‘Aight fukk it’. I was like ‘I’m gonna do that shyt and then we can exchange, I’ll give you some shyt’. And he was like ‘Alright, cool’. That was the story, that’s why on it (“We Got The Jazz”) I said ‘Pete Rock for the beat ya don’t stop’."

He tried to sue Puff and Trackmasters for BIG's "Juicy" because he said they stole that from him too. But Trackmasters said Puff wanted that sample flipped and a few people try to flip it, but he chose their version for the album, and Pete tried to sue them because his version wasn't used. He helped get the YG's signed, and they showed up to the family day picnic they used to have with all the Mt. Vernon rappers, and they walked up on Pete and stomped him out in front of everybody. After Pete got back up, he started running out the park and they chased him. These dudes would either beat-down or chase Pete every time they saw him. At weddings, industry events, etc. Because he had them sign a shady deal, and he was stealing from them. This was around '93. So as much as I love dude's music, Pete has always been known to move funny in business, and just with other artists and producers. It's clearly still a thing with him.

this is what I call accounting

a record of consistent sus shyt

but if we talk about it we are stans

 

[feelosofer]

I'm a Pete Rock stan, but outside of the boards Pete has a history of over estimating his worth. He claims everyone owes him money, he claims every one stole from him. He's been doing this since the mid 90s.