The new legal salvo, which argues that the song's references to prostitution describe the rapper's views on women, comes amid a backlash to citing rap lyrics in court cases. By Bill Donahue Locked in ...

Jay Z told a jury Wednesday that he believes he has a valid license to use Arabic music featured on his 1999 hit "Big Pimpin'" that is now the subject of a copyright infringement trial. The rap ...

A high-profile legal battle between Jay-Z and Houston-based attorney Tony Buzbee intensified this week as Buzbee's legal team filed a motion to dismiss the rap mogul's extortion lawsuit, invoking ...

A copyright infringement trial over Jay Z's hit song "Big Pimpin' " opened Tuesday with an attorney for heirs of an Egyptian composer accusing the rapper of misusing music from a popular 1950s love ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay Z told a jury Wednesday that he believes he has a valid license to use Arabic music featured on his 1999 hit “Big Pimpin'” that is now the subject of a copyright infringement ...

The rap superstar spent roughly 90 minutes testifying in a federal courtroom today, recounting his life, his successes and the creative process that led him and music producer Timbaland to create Big ...

"He tells me his beats are better than my raps. I tell him my raps are better than his beats," Jay Z joked about Timbaland in court on Wednesday Jay Z delivered short answers and many laughs to a ...

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 ...

A copyright infringement trial over Jay Z‘s hit song “Big Pimpin’ ” opened Tuesday with an attorney for heirs of an Egyptian composer accusing the rapper of misusing music from a popular 1950s love ...

Jay-Z and Timbaland were both in court on Tuesday for the first day of a copyright infringement trial regarding their 1999 song Big Pimpin'. The rappers have been accused of misusing music from the ...