Snoop Dogg Sued For Alleged Copyright Infringement Over ‘BODR’ Album Backing Tracks

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Snoop Dogg Sued For Alleged Copyright Infringement Over ‘BODR’ Album Backing Tracks

Another copyright infringement lawsuit has found its way to one of our music favs.

According to reports, on Monday (July 15) producer and drummer Trevor Lawrence Jr. filed a copyright lawsuit against Snoop Dogg, real name Calvin Broadus Jr., claiming the rapper used two of his backing tracks without paying him. The songs in question are “Pop Pop” and “Get This D*ck,” which are both featured on Snoop Dogg’s latest studio album, released in 2022, BODR.

Per the lawsuit, Lawrence Jr. permitted Snoop Dogg to “experiment with the tracks in-studio.” However, Lawrence Jr. allegedly expressed to Snoop that he would have to pay if the records were commercially released. Reportedly, to date, he has yet to receive financial compensation from the rapper, despite his work being used for the album. The suit also notes that the men never agreed on an actual licensing deal but Lawrence Jr. normally shops his work around the industry that way under the guise that “a proper license will and must be negotiated.”

The lawsuit continues,

“To date, defendants have refused to properly license the Lawrence tracks or compensate Lawrence for their use in the Broadus tracks.”

Allegedly, they agreed on a $10,000 flat fee, plus 50% interest in the musical composition, and the songs have since brought in “tens of millions of dollars,” as they were also released as NFTs.

According to the suit,

 “[Snoop] representative confirmed that these anticipated terms were acceptable.”

The document also claims,

“At no point in time did defendants… Communicate to Lawrence any intention to exploit the Lawrence tracks in connection with a bundled offering such as [the NFT sale], nor did Lawrence authorize any such exploitation of his work, which was never within his prior contemplation.”

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