What I am alluding to when I verbally crown Jay Z the King of Hip-Hop is the touting of what I see clearly as the most illustrious career of any rapper to have done it. Because art is subjective, and when it comes to rap, there is no scientific method to calculating who has the best flow. I never leave this bold claim on an island however, as without proper justification of this claim it is simply unsubstantiated hyperbole. I have never been shy in my proclamation that I believe Jay Z is the greatest rapper of all time. The next hearing between Jay-Z, Roc-A-Fella Records, and Damon Dash is slated for July 1.Jay Z’s debut album, which dropped twenty years ago today, isn’t simply one of the best rap albums of all time, but represents the dawning of an empire… In recent reports, Damon Dash labeled Jay-Z a “bully” and claimed he was trying to become the sole owner of the rights to Reasonable Doubt after Jay-Z tried to buy out Dash’s one-third of RAF Inc., the record company, which owns the rights to the album, at a price Dash “deemed unacceptable.
Spiro noted, this seems like a particularly relevant concern here, given the importance of protecting the public in this burgeoning new marketplace,” Judge Cronan concluded. Dash, did this, it could cause confusion in the marketplace, regarding the owner of the album Reasonable Doubt, and as Mr.
This was certainly caused hardship to Plaintiff the alleged rightful owner of the copyright,” Judge Cronan said in his ruling. Dash is attempting to sell something that he does not own. The judge also ruled that since Damon Dash is a shareholder in Roc-A-Fella Records, he had breached his fiduciary duty to the company, by attempting to convert an asset for his own benefit, which amounts to unjust enrichment. Carter, and Roc-A-Fella Records,” Judge Cronan ruled. This is supported not only by the recorded declaration, but also by the contract between Mr. Roc-A-Fella Records owns the copyright in Mr. Carter submitted by the plaintiff, Roc-A-Fella Records.
“The plaintiff Roc-A-Fella Records has shown a likelihood of success on the merits, according to the declaration of Mr. Judge Cronan said Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella Records would suffer irreparable harm if Reasonable Doubt was sold as an NFT and granted the temporary restraining order against Damon and SuperFarm. “They admit that they want the seller to profit from the future revenue, and for the buyer to profit from revenue which they have no right to do…they say over and over again that this is a new milestone in the history of NFT’s.”Īlex Spiro said Damon Dash was trying to resist their demands to stop selling Reasonable Doubt as an NFT, even after his lawyers were served with a cease-and-desist from Roc-A-Fella last week. They refer multiple times in the press release that they are trying to sell, copyright,” Alex Spiro told Judge John Cronan. “They inadvertently admitted to everything that we’re alleging. According to Alex Spiro, Damon Dash was hoping to earn $30 million by selling Reasonable Doubt as an NFT through SuperFarm.ĭuring the hearing, Alex Spiro denied Damon’s recent defense in the media that he was trying to sell his 1/3rd share in Roc-A-Fella Records. Spiro referred to an unreleased press release Damon and SuperFarm drew up to hawk Reasonable Doubt as an NFT. Jay-Z’s lawyer claimed Damon was attempting to take sole ownership of Reasonable Doubt by selling the album as an NFT, but Dash does not own the copyright to the album, Roc-A-Fella Records does, even though Dash owns 1/3rd of the label. On Friday (June 18), a legal dispute between the Roc-A-Fella Records’ co-founders erupted, after Jay-Z’s lawyers sued Damon Dash, claiming he was a thief, who was trying to sell “the copyright to Jay’s debut album Reasonable Doubt as an NFT at “a SuperFarm Foundation online auction” on June 23.ĭuring the first hearing today (June 22) in regards to the dispute, Jay-Z’s lawyer Alex Spiro showed up, but reps for Damon Dash were completely absent. A Lawyer for Jay-Z appeared in court today (June 22) for a hearing in a legal dispute with Damon Dash over the rapper’s debut album Reasonable Doubt and shut down an attempt to auction off the release as an NFT.
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