Song Use Leads To $10 Million Suit
6:00AM ET July 11th, 2012
Contributor : Stephen Willis
A Rocky Williform Company

Rapper/producer Lord Finesse is suing Mac Miller for $10 million for using Finesse's "Hip 2 Da Game" without permission. The Lord Finesse song was featured on his third album, 1996's The Awakening, and Finesse claims the Mac Miller song "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza (The Kool Aid Song)" uses the same production.

"This is a case about a teenage rapper- Mac Miller- copying the music from a song written, produced and performed by Lord Finesse, a hip hop legend, changing the title and then distributing it under his own name in order to launch his music career," reads a complaint published by Finesse. Finesse says he issued a cease-and-desist letter to the mixtape-hosting site DatPiff, as well as Miller and his independent Rostrum Records label. When none of the above parties responded, Finesse went forward with a lawsuit.