Today (April 11), marks the 17th anniversary of Jay Z's classic hip-hop banger "Big Pimpin'" featuring UGK. The Timbaland-produced song, which served as the lead single off Jigga's fourth studio album ...

The marathon litigation over Jay Z's sampling of an old Egyptian tune for his blockbuster song "Big Pimpin'" took a new turn on Wednesday after the nephew of a deceased Egyptian composer filed a new… ...

A win for a "Raging Bull" heiress also becomes a win for the Egyptian objecting to a sample in one of the hip-hop star's biggest hits. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large What does Jay Z have ...

Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin” was one of the biggest records of his career and while it featured UGK (Bun B and Pimp C), Pimp C actually had his reservations about getting on the track when he first heard it.

More than 15 years after Jay Z and Timbaland’s “Big Pimpin’” thumped in ubiquity across the suburbs of America, the two men are ensnared in an unusual copyright-infringement trial. According to the AP ...

Pimping has always been a recurring theme in rap music, but few stay in touch with their inner Iceberg Slim as effectively as does JT Money, a rapper whose debut, Pimpin On Wax, is a veritable concept ...

There's no dispute that Jay Z's 1999 hit "Big Pimpin' " includes elements of a 1950s Egyptian love ballad, yet the flute notes taken from "Khosara Khosara" have created a lingering problem for the ...

Are the days of hearing one of Jay Z's biggest hits in concert over? An Egyptian film composer's heir seeks an injunction. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large The marathon litigation over Jay ...