Notice they never played michelle music
They must not had the rights to the music...or nwa music
shareThey must not had the rights to the music...or nwa music
shareUmm yes they did. I don't know where you were. They played "Something in my heart", "Nicety" and "No more lies". They even went way back and played "Before you turn off the lights".
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What movie were they watching? Or was that not her music?
shareIt was Michel'le's music. Some of it sounded different, because she re-recorded the songs specifically for the movie.
shareIt was Michel'le's music. Some of it sounded different, because she re-recorded the songs specifically for the movie.true
Well if it was about song rights and not having the rights to play the songs then they wouldn't have been able to play any aspects of the song, including the lyrics.
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It was Michel'le's music. Some of it sounded different, because she re-recorded the songs specifically for the movie.
sharewhat's the song she was singing at the 18 minute mark? After they left the baby momma's house...
shareDoes she know she only has 1 album in 25 years of being in the business.
Only reason it came out is because wide awake bought the vault of death row and released it and everybody who were shelved lol Danny boy, jewel, chipmunk, and all those other bums
shareWORD!! I'm like, was that an intro/outro/clip from an NWA album?? Apparently there are quite a few of us Googling to find out, so hopefully we soon will.
shareWORD!! I'm like, was that an intro/outro/clip from an NWA album?? Apparently there are quite a few of us Googling to find out, so hopefully we soon will.
Why would they play her music because when it came out it was stale then and really stale now
shareRight they couldn't use N.W.A's music because they couldn't secure the rights and I'm guessing a small TV movie didn't have the budget to pay for those songs.
I believe all N.W.A/Ruthless music is owned by Tomica Wright (Eazy-E's widow) and I'm not sure who owns Death Row now.
I still don't know what you guys mean. The songs sound like the originals to me, just rerecorded for the movie but definitely the same lyrics and beat.
Also, if Michel'le didn't have rights to use the music then she wouldn't have had rights to use the song period, including the lyrics because that should all belong to Ruthless records.
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? DAMN, why do I keep finding you making sense on these threads?! Lol, good to see voices of reason.
shareMichel'le was the co-writer of most of her music, so that means she owns part of the publishing and has the authority to authorize usage. It gets tricky and I don't know all the in's and out's, but I think so long as the publisher is compensated, lyrics and generic accompaniments can be used more liberally for media. However, the original sound recordings (masters) are owned by the record labels, and labels tend to be more stringent about usage. They could use a resung/replayed version of "Nicety," so long as credit was given to the writers...but they couldn't play the original recording found on her album, if the record company doesn't authorize it.
shareI agree with this answer. Co-owning songs is tricky, but I think it goes just as you described.
shareShe has no rights to publishing from her album priority which put out the first albums from ruthless owns it which was sold to capitol. Tomika is half owner of ruthless publishing along with Capitol records that's is why easy in the soc movie was struggling to keep his house priority didn't offer ruthless the contract they wanted and thy went to find a new distribution deal they singed with a Sony subsidiary reletivity records then easy made each artist drop a ep before their full length album to get the cashflow going.
Mc Ren kizz my black azz
Atl vocally pimping
Easy see kill a
Bone creeping on a come up
Etc.
Priorty/Capitol doesn't own the rights to Michel'le first album. Most early Ruthless releases were distributed by Priority, but that wasn't the case with Michel'le. Her album was released under Atlantic Records, and to this day the rights are controlled by Warner Music (Atlantic's parent.) The album features the Ruthless name and logo as a promotional courtesy, but the copyright is held by Atlantic, which means they own it.
Ruthless/Tomica Wright doesn't control any of the publishing of the songs that Eazy-E himself didn't contribute to the writing of. Since Eazy-E was one of the executive producers of Michel'le album, that means his estate (Tomica) gets additional royalties from its sales, but they have no ownership or control over the music. Again, Michel'le served as the co-writer of many of her songs, so we can assume that she has a certain amount of ownership over the publishing and can authorize generic usage of the compositions.