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Lawsuit: Bill Withers' Publisher Says Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" Copied "Just the Two of Us"
Mattie Music Group says Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copies the melody of "Just the Two of Us," but its suit targets UMG, Capitol, Sony and Kobalt instead of Dean. Here is what the complaint claims, what it leaves out and what writers can learn from it.
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Soulidified Finished Third on Netflix. 'Man Ain't Me' Starts the Real Test
The Building the Band quartet that lost on Netflix just released its Atlantic debut. History says TV-made R&B groups burn fast, but Soulidified spent a year building its audience without a camera in the room.
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Menahan Street Band Taps Arthur Verocai for Illusions, Uniting Two of Hip-Hop's Favorite Sample Sources
The Brooklyn band behind Jay-Z's "Roc Boys" loop brought in the Brazilian composer MF DOOM and Ludacris sampled for strings on its first album in five years, due November 13.
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Ruth B. Returns With 'Peace To Make' - Her Biggest Song Never Cracked the Hot 100.
Ruth B.'s third studio album arrived Friday with no features and no manufactured moment. The stranger story is a catalog that has moved billions of streams while barely registering on the chart the industry still reads.
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The Game's 'The Documentary 3' Arrives After a Long Delay
Nineteen months late and five hours announced, The Documentary 3 arrived with Drake on the hook, Kendrick's camp on the defensive and a posthumous Drakeo the Ruler verse nobody is talking about.
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New R&B (Friday, Aug 21): Cleo Sol Returns, Lucky Daye Calls Leon Thomas, and Badu Sets a Date
Six R&B releases, six different ideas of what the genre is for. Cleo Sol drops fifteen songs in silence, Lucky Daye recruits a Grammy winner, and Erykah Badu finally names a date.
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Louis York Have Written Hits for Everybody Else. 'The Heart of the Matter Puts' Their Own Music Back at the Center
Claude Kelly and Chuck Harmony have spent years helping shape major pop and R&B records. With Louis York's The Heart of the Matter now set for November 6, their own artist career moves back to the foreground.
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New Music (Friday, Aug 21): Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Reload, Rapsody Serves, Plus Eric Bellinger and Jorja Smith
Five albums that would each lead a normal Friday landed on the same one. Our listening order, and the reasoning behind it.
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Mariah Carey Opens the 'Glitter' Anniversary Era With a Rochelle Jordan Remix
Carey reopened the Glitter story with a Rochelle Jordan remix, a confirmed October 30 reissue date and the album's first vinyl pressing in 25 years.
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In the "OK" Video, Ye Is a Body on a Table While Everybody Else Does the Work
Ye spends almost the entire "OK" video as a corpse on a mortuary table. Don Toliver revives him, Bianca Censori built the room, and the release calendar is doing the rest.
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Omarion Spent Eleven Years Getting "Reasons" Back. Now It Is Just a Song He Owns.
Atlantic announced an Omarion album called Reasons in 2015 and never released it. Eleven years later the title belongs to him, and the video went out on his schedule.
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Davido Saved the Biggest Video on ORIADÉ for the Song That Charted Eleventh
Davido gave "Tell Everybody" a ballroom, a chandelier and a crown-shaped cap. Twelve songs from ORIADÉ charted the same week, and the one with the Grammy winner on it finished eleventh.
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