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Rapper Lil Wayne is facing legal action over accusations he has copied  The Rolling Stones in one of his songs.
Bosses at music publishing firm Abkco Music Inc. allege the star has released an alternate version of the British rockers’ hit Play With Fire, which the label owns the rights to, without their permission.

And they’ve branded Lil Wayne’s track an “explicit, sexist and offensive” rendition of the 1965 tune, according to the lawsuit obtained by TMZ.com.

The company is suing for copyright infringement and seeking unspecified damages.

I would have to assume that Lil Wayne is getting a good understanding of the phrase “more money, more problems!”

Lil Wayne’s-Tha Carter III is atop the US Charts for its 3rd week. Tha Carter III debuted at number one with over one million sales last month but the album was toppled by Coldplay’s Viva La Vida, which spent one week on top. Lil Wayne rebounded to the top spot once again last week (July 9th).

A week after selling more than a million copies of his latest album, Lil Wayne has been hit with yet another lawsuit after reportedly still failing to pay for work carried out on his custom Bentley in 2005.

Lil Wayne is already being sued for breach of contract by California car customiser LeMarck deAndre, after allegedly reneging on a deal to cover costs totalling $80,000 for modifying his 1999 Bentley Arnage. In the original lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of California in December 2007, deAndre claimed he initially received a payment of $78,507 from Carter in August 2006 - 10 months after the invoice was originally due.
The late payment broke their agreement and deAndre cancelled the job altogether.

But deAndre has now filed another suit against Lil Wayne for a further $123,800 in damages and he blames the rapper’s “financial illiteracy” for the blunder. He says:

“My direct observation and experience with Dwayne M. Carter’s financial and personal irresponsibility over the years has taught and demonstrated to me that he has become the ‘new symbol of financial illiteracy and slavery in/of the 21st century’ and this is unequivocally not fiction nor is it a misunderstanding. For a little over five years, I have been involved with the consistent and perpetual business behavioural illustrations of Dwayne M. Carter’s high-level of financial illiteracy, lack of liquidity, leveraged acquisition liability accumulation and below zero net-worth; as well as lack of business communication, character, and integrity - all learned behaviours - and the primary reasons for non-payment.”

I understand that he wants his money, but those are some strong words. The same financial illiteracy that he is talking about is probably the only reason he can charge over $100,000 for custom modifications that probably cost less than $20k.

With all the debate about who are the hottest MC’s in the game, Rapper LIL WAYNE has done something that only a handful of artist in any genre have done lately which is sell over 1 million copies in the first week. He has stunned chart watchers by debuting his new album Tha Carter III at the top of the new Billboard 200.

It’s the first time any artist has scored a sales week of over a million copies of an album since 50 Cent debuted big with The Massacre in 2005. It’s a good week for rap and hip-hop all round as Plies debuts Definition of Real at two, with 215,000 opening week sales. Usher’s Here I Stand also made the top 5 in album sales for the week