Nas Owns Jay's Publishing (According To MC Serch)

[5 Grand]

 

[God_Body]

Cliff notes:

Nas owns 50% of Dead Presidents off RD and that’s it. Jay payed $2500 to clear the sample.

MC Search owned 2% of Illmatic and It Was Written. He recently sold it.

The masters of Illmatic and IWW revert back to Nas in 7-9 years.

 

[Don Dada]

Jay either lied or didnt know WTF he was talking about

 

[Suckio Andretti]

Wow this is interesting

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

Wow this is interesting

It was 2-3 years ago when he first said it.

 

[Agent_Ro]

Wait you mean Jay sampled Nas’s voice on the song and Nas owns 50% of it?????

 

[konceptjones]

Wait you mean Jay sampled Nas’s voice on the song and Nas owns 50% of it?????

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That was the deal for that particular song.

On any given song, there's 200% when it comes to publishing: 100% for the writer, 100% for the producer. What Serch did was took $2500 for the clearance, but went to the publishing company and said, "for this sample, we want 50% of the songwriter's publishing". So, while the producer still gets his 100% (assuming Lonnie Liston Smith didn't take a cut or all of it himself because of the "Garden of Peace" sample), Jay only gets 50% of the songwriting pubs for that song and Nas gets the remaining 50%.

It was a slick deal, but yeah Serch hooked it up for Nas. Every time that song is played out or performed, Nas get a cut of the pubs that gets collected.

 

[Don Dada]

I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret

 

[Freshb651]

#QGTM

Queens niggas run you niggas ask Russell Simmons.

 

[Suckio Andretti]

It was 2-3 years ago when he first said it.

It wasn’t then honestly lol

 

[Don Dada]

Takeover was all lies

 

[Freshb651]

Takeover was all lies

Not all of it

 

[IP360]

He and Pete Rock still beefin?

 

[Don Dada]

Pete Rock said he only got a one time check but no royalties at all since Illmatic dropped.

They never worked after The World is yours tho. Until Lost tapes 2. I wonder why lol

Kinda late 2 sue Nas for it. Aint it?

 

[Don Dada]

“you show off? I count dough off while you sample my voice. I rule you” - Nas (Stillmatic freestyle 2001)

 

[illed_Out]

“you show off? I count dough off while you sample my voice. I rule you” - Nas (Stillmatic freestyle 2001)

 

[a.mann]

Pete Rock said he only got a one time check but no royalties at all since Illmatic dropped.

They never worked after The World is yours tho. Until Lost tapes 2. I wonder why lol

Kinda late 2 sue Nas for it. Aint it?

One of the GOATs and my personal favs next Preemo but Pete be on certified f-boi time
From what comes out since then, it's been revealed the reason he only got one check, is because Pete always took his payment up front without securing publishing/royalties rights. Funk Flex aired him out something terrible

 

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