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.

Wiz Khalifa & Mac Miller Announce “Under The Influence” Tour

Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller have officially announced their joint “Under the Influence” tour, beginning in late July and running through early August 2012. The tour will be kicking off at Cincinnati, Ohio’s Riverbend Music Center on July 26th. Stops on the tour include Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois. The short tour concludes at Detroit, Michigan’s DTE Energy Music Theatre on August 5th.

“I’m really excited for this tour, for the fans and as a fan of music myself. It’s gonna be trippy!” said Khalifa in a statement. Mac added, “I’m excited to go on a tour like this because it brings a group of individuals together to move across the country as a unit to showcase great music.”

Starting on April 19th, fans can visit www.facebook.com/livenation to RSVP to the presale. Check the tour dates below.

July 26 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
July 27 – Chicago, IL – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
July 28 – Indianapolis, IN – Klipsch Music Center
July 29 – Toronto, ON – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre**
August 01 – Boston, MA – Comcast Center
August 02 – New York, NY – Nikon at Jones Beach Theater*
August 03 – Philadelphia, PA – Susquehanna Bank Center
August 04 – Pittsburgh, PA – First Niagara Pavilion
August 05 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre

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