MAC MILLER SUED FOR $10 MILLION

WHATS THE WORD : MAC MILLER SUED FOR $10 MILLION Another day, another Mac Miller lawsuit. This time, Miller is staring at a $10 million suit for using sampling another artist’s work. According to HipHopDX, an artist who goes by Warm Speakers filed a suit against Miller and his label, Rostrum Records for copyrights violation. The complaint was reportedly filed Wednesday in New York, and it charges Miller for stealing “The World Around You,” which Speakers supposedly wrote in June 2010. The suit goes on to state that Miller swiped the song “without his permission or knowledge” and reworked it as “Fuck ‘Em All,” which later appeared on one of his mixtapes. From the suit: “Miller uses other people’s music because it’s easier, cheaper, and faster than creating his own,” reads the complaint. “Miller seeks to capitalize on the common misconception in Copyright Law that people whose music he takes have no remedy if he gives their music away for free.” The funny thing is that Miller already acknowledged using the song, shouting out the original artist on Twitter: “Shout out @warmspeakers for the song we sampled on Fuck Em All,” he tweeted. Miller can’t catch a break these days. Lord Finesse also filed a $10 million lawsuit against Miller last month for using the “Hip 2 da Game” instrumental on a mixtape song. It should be interesting to see how this one plays out.