Jay Z must take time away from his new business venture, Tidal, to handle some old old … OLD business with the 1999 hit single, “Big Pimpin’” (my absolute all-time favorite song, starring Pimp C). Jay is the defendant and Timbaland, Universal Music Group and Paramount Pictures are include as co-defendants for the copyright infringement lawsuit.

Osama Ahmed Fahmy filed the suit claiming that the above list of defendants used a sample of his father’s “Khosara, Khosara” for the “Big Pimpin’” track. Jay Z denied all allegations of stealing the sample, even skipping out on the deposition, but now, because this problem can’t be settled out of court, it’s going to trial October 13th.

More after the jump.

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The license for the Egyptian sample was obtained by Timbaland from EMI Arabia. However, Fahmy claims that can’t be true because EMI didn’t even have the rights to license the 1960’s song.

Fahmy says that he gave the Egyptian record company Sout El Phan the right to license the song to companies like EMI Arabia but they could not license the song to anyone else without permission.

Clear case of ‘backtrack your facts’. Although it sounds like Fahmy doesn’t even’t have rights any more, sooooo…

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