A federal board in Los Angeles recommended Tuesday that rapper and
producer Dr. Dre pay a British music publishing aggregation $1.5
million for abduction locations of the 1980 Fatback hit
"Backstrokin'" for "Let's Get High," from Dre's album
2001. The songs are congenital on agnate six-note alarm bass
lines, Dre's slowed to a bounce added ill-fitted to the aftereffect to his
gangsta rap masterpiece The Chronic.
"Backstrokin'," from the 1980 anthology Hotbox, was
Fatback's highest-climbing single. Written by bassist Johnny
Flippin and bagman Bill Curtis, it accomplished Number Three on the
R&B blueprint in 1980. Fatback, a alarm aggregate originally known
as the Fatback Band, aswell fabricated one of the aboriginal rap singles ever
with their 1979 hit "King Tim III (Personality Jock)."
Minder Music, the London-based aggregation that controls the rights
to "Backstrokin'," was intially gluttonous $3.5 actor in damages.
Lawyers for Dr. Dre advance the similarities amid the two
tracks -- Dre wrote "High" with Eminem and others -- are
unintentional, and say they plan to address the accommodation if the
judge approves the jury's recommendation.
Dr. Dre's 2001 has awash added than six actor copies in
the U.S.
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