Last week news broke that 90’s New York hip-hop fixture Lord Finesse was suing Mac Miller for using one of his beats on a mixtape. The vibed-out backbone of Miller’s “Kool-Aid and Frozen Pizza” originally came from Finesse’s 1995 single “Hip 2 Da Game.” Finesse wants $10 million for this violation. Watching Mac and Finesse go back and forth on Twitter has been weird. It’s cool to see Mac giving his respect (and, honestly, for using a classic track from an era that doesn’t get much shine these days). It sucks they apparently spoke and didn’t work anything out.   Just in-case you’ve been living under a rock or are completely unfamiliar with the song, here is a stream of it to add some context and spark your interest a little more in the situation.

If you’re like me, your response to this was probably something like “smdh you can’t sue over a mixtape that was never for sale, especially Read more…