Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Ante Up Vince McMahon



Cena Rumbles with Rappers Over Theme Music
Posted Oct 28th 2008 2:45PM by TMZ Staff
The guys of '90s hard-core rap group M.O.P. say John Cena and the WWE jacked one of their songs for John's entrance music and they're alleging some pretty slippery moves in the process.

Jamal Grinnage and Eric Murray -- that's Lil' Fame and Billy Danze -- want to put the kill switch on Cena's song, "The Time Is Now," saying it borrows heavily from their hit "Ante Up." In a federal lawsuit, they claim WWE's lawyers actually found some person to sign off on the license who was only a receptionist and didn't have authority to do so.

The biggest point of actual musical contention is one non-English line -- "BRRR Abado" -- that appears in the original song once, and in JC's song three times.

The suit asks for destruction of Cena's song and $150K from the defendants. No word from Cena or WWE yet.


The biggest point of actual musical contention is one non-English line -- "BRRR Abado" -- that appears in the original song once, and in JC's song three times.


LOL this is pretty great.

So I did this song like 5 years ago and unfortunately I don't own any publishing on it! I could have done something real ignorant with that publishing yaper. I did turn in the samples that I used on the song including the MOP part. I was hoping at least they would get paid off it. 150 racks seems kinda low though. That shit is on commercials, video games and dvd's. Not to mention all the times it has played while Cena enters the ring. I guess this doesn't really suprise me considering WWF cleared the wrong sample for one of the beats I did on the album. Last I heard that record had sold 370K, maybe it will go gold one day. Another plaque that I will never get for my wall.


PS. You can now just go to www.whitevanmusic.com and reach this page. No need for all that blogspot crap.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

"Home"



Found this at my dad's house the other day. Luckily parents keep all this type of crap because I had totally forgot about it. I was actually goin to do a producer album in 97 or 98 around the time I put out this single but I never finished. There are like 5 songs sitting somewhere I'll try to dig out at some point.


So since most of the people hearing "Home" haven't heard of the artists that I was paying tribute to on this song its only fitting that I hit yall with the full length songs of the samples I used in the hooks. They're all Seattle hip hop artists from the 90's. If people want to hear more I can dig thru the tapes and put some more songs up.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mspcpp

PS. I know I haven't been updating this like I should be but fuck it, I'm a amateur blogger. BTW this album stuff takes up a lot of time.