Jay-Z rose to fame in the late 1990s in the wake of iconic New York rappers such as Nas and The Notorious B.I.G. At the turn of the millennium, Jay-Z released the single “Big Pimpin'” with Pimp C and ...

The hip-hop mogul and producer Timbaland are defending the use of an Egyptian song in the 1999 hit. By Austin Siegemund-Broka To hear Jay Z tell it, there was one big misunderstanding in the ...

Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin” was one of the biggest records of his career and while it featured UGK (Bun B and Pimp C), Pimp C actually had his reservations about getting on the track when he first heard it.

After allegedly infringing the "moral rights" of a song first featured in a 1960 Egyptian film, Jay-Z might be on the hook for paying some of his concert profits to the Egyptian film composer's heir.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay Z says he believes he has a valid license to use the Arabic music featured on his 1999 hit "Big Pimpin'" that is now the subject of a copyright infringement trial. The rap ...

Even as arguably to be of the game’s most successful artists, Jay-Z still has some regrets about the decisions made in his career and more specifically, the songs that he offered up to the public ...

Damon Dash has alleged Jay-Z was rapping about his life on the 2000 hit single "Big Pimpin'." According to Dame, everything Jay said in that song was him trying to imitate the Harlem native. Dame ...

Jay Z scored a tentative pretrial victory Wednesday in a civil lawsuit claiming he swiped a song sample for his smash hit “Big Pimpin.” A U.S. District judge said she planned to split the case into ...

More than 15 years after Jay Z and Timbaland’s “Big Pimpin’” thumped in ubiquity across the suburbs of America, the two men are ensnared in an unusual copyright-infringement trial. According to the 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 trial. The rap ...

LOS ANGELES — 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.