Court Clears Jay Z Of Copyright Charges

The copyright case against rapper, Jay Z and Timbaland over his track, ‘Big Pimpin has been dismissed by a judge in the US.

The rapper was accused of not getting permission to use a flute sample from a track written by an Egyptian composer called Baligh Hamdi in 1957.

His nephew and heir, Osama Ahmed Fahmy, claimed they didn’t ask to combine his uncle’s song with the “vulgar” lyrics of Big Pimpin’, released in 1999.