Wtf....Eminem suing Aftermath?

[Casey]

What the hell is this? This can't be right.

Eminem's music publishers, Eight Mile Style LLC, are going after Apple Inc. , claiming they "never authorized the use of 93 songs in a downloadable format on Apple's popular iTunes service."

On Thursday in Detroit, the two companies are expected to begin non-jury trial proceedings, unless a settlement can be reached by tomorrow. It is unlikely that Eminem will appear at the proceedings (when do celebrities ever show up for these kinds of things?).

It is still unknown as to how much money is actually at stake, however, Eminem's people are claiming they have lost upwards of $2.5 million from Itunes download sales, with $466,915 of it coming from Eminem's biggest hit "Lose Yourself," off the 8 Mile soundtrack.

It is believed that the publisher also seeks financial claims on the sale of Ipods, which we don't get at all!

Apple is, of course, denying the whole thing, claiming that they have a legal and viable contract with Aftermath Records, which controls the recordings in question. Eminem's music publishers argue that Aftermath had no right to provide these songs, and are also suing the record label for their part in this as well.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

eminem's people are suing aftermath, not eminem by the looks of it.

on another note: man, aftermath is getting really annoying right now. the albums we could have seen:

rakim
truth hurts
d12
eminem
50 cent
obie trice
stat quo
the game
busta rhymes
eve
bishop lamont
dr. dre
g-unit
joell ortiz
GAGE
tiffany villarreal
focus
marsha ambrosius.

all lost/delayed work.

 

[Casey]

eminem's people are suing aftermath, not eminem by the looks of it.

But I believe Eminem would have to sanction any action they took...UNLESS he was a complete moron and sold 100% of his publishing rights....which surely can't be the case.

as far as your list, I bolded the only ones I really care about:

the albums we could have seen:

rakim
truth hurts
d12
eminem
50 cent
obie trice
stat quo
the game
busta rhymes
eve
bishop lamont
dr. dre
g-unit
joell ortiz
GAGE
tiffany villarreal
focus
marsha ambrosius.
.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

tiffany villarreal's self-titled album was really good. but had little promotion and was not released via aftermath.

eve, stat, obie, busta, rakim had albums shelved and would remain in the vault. but looks as though stat might acquire the tracks he did on aftermath by working with dre, dre giving them to him as a favour so stat could complete statlanta (or just release them i hope).

G.A.G.E. was good, and i dont think you've gven joell a chance.

i remember around when proof died (cant remember if it was before or after) they annouced the d12 album, and there were rumours that it would be called "the ambition". when proof died, kon artis did say that they still wanted to finish the album and release it ASAP and try to move on. they said that they wanted to put out the material as quick as possible and go onto the next step. doesnt seem like that has happened unless by referring to that they did the return of the dozen mixtape instead.

i wonder what an actual retail bishop lamont album with aftermath production would sound like. i think it would be very good indeed compared to todays standards.

i believe eve has lost it. her best days were around 2001 when ruff ryders were active and let me blow your mind had heavy rotation. 2001 was a good hip-hop year production-wise IMO, had some good hits around.