James Brown returned to a Billboard chart thanks to a prominent sample. Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn did not. When it comes to samples, "everything is negotiable." By Elias Leight In early ...

Trending on Billboard But according to the lawsuit, Drake’s album and song — complete with the unlicensed sample — were released just nine days later, before Obrafour had a chance to respond ...

The publishing company for house artist Marshall Jefferson says the rapper failed to clear a sample of the track ... The song peaked at No. 34 on Billboard’s Dance Singles Sales chart in ...

The lawsuit claimed the rapper knew he needed to pay for a prominent sample but walked away from ... not disclosed in court filings. Trending on Billboard Neither side immediately returned ...

The lawsuit is the latest in a string of cases to claim that a legally-cleared sample featured uncleared ... Trending on Billboard “Wanna Be,” released by Megan and GloRilla in early April ...

Billboard rounded up rap, R&B and Afrobeats songs by Rema, MF DOOM, Snoop Dogg, Burna Boy, Ashanti, Nipsey Hussle and Queen Latifah that sample and interpolate Sade. By Heran Mamo Rema‘s latest ...

By Trevor Anderson James Brown, the trailblazing Godfather of Soul who passed in 2006, places a new song on a Billboard chart for the first time since 1993 as his co-billed collaboration with ...

"We get so many requests for these songs, and when we saw that request, we just said no way," she tells Billboard ... 9), saying that West had asked to sample a song but was “refused permission ...