Jan 19For those of you with linkophobia and pageaphobia here's the TL;DR
"Georgia-based musician and songwriter Jamal Britt is suing producer and songwriter Turbo the Great, along with Warner Chappell Music and numerous labels, over what he says is unauthorized use of the “run that back Turbo” audio clip that Turbo uses as his producer tag."
"According to the complaint, which can be read in full here, in July 2017, Britt and Turbo (who is identified in the complaint as Chandler Durham) co-created a track called Afghanistan.
Britt alleges to have written the lyrics and “music elements” of the track, while Turbo “created the musical track and/or beat” for Afghanistan, and acted as engineer for the recording session. Britt claims that he vocalized and rapped the lyrics “run that back Turbo” as the introduction to the track, the complaint states.
Since then, “Turbo has unequivocally used an extrapolation of the original work and appropriated it as his own in nearly all of his productions,” the complaint alleges.
Britt “was never given notice that his voice was being used, never properly credited for his contributions to the songs in question and was never compensated from any of the royalty payments, profits, or other income garnered from the exploitation of his recorded voice,” the complaint asserts."
the full complaint is here
musicbusinessworldwide.com/files/2024/01/Turbo-the-Great-1.pdf