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"The Grey Album" Shelved, Danger Mouse Served Cease-And-Desist
After receiving adulations from various media outlets for creating The Grey Album, Danger Mouse now must face the repercussions of tampering with music by the Beatles.
EMI Records has issued cease-and-desist orders to the producer, as well as independent retail stores and Web sites that have been selling the CD.
Though Danger Mouse knew pairing Jay-Z vocals from The Black Album with instrumentation from the Beatles' famed White Album would land him in trouble, the producer told AllHipHop.com in a recent interview that he had to put his creativity over anything else.
"It's illegal, I know that and it may get me in trouble, but if I had thought about that I would have never made what I thought turned out to be one of the best things I ever did," he said.
While DJs and producers have created other hues of The Black Album, such as The Brown Album and The White Album, don't expect those to be pulled from shells.
The difference from other Jay-Z remixed albums is that Danger Mouse dared to use music from the Beatles catalog.
Sony Music and Michael Jackson own their catalog in a joint partnership and EMI Records controls the sound recordings.
Danger Mouse only pressed 3,000 copies of The Grey Album, and he said that he hoped the limited copies would protect him from further legal action.
Source: allhiphop.com
EMI Records has issued cease-and-desist orders to the producer, as well as independent retail stores and Web sites that have been selling the CD.
Though Danger Mouse knew pairing Jay-Z vocals from The Black Album with instrumentation from the Beatles' famed White Album would land him in trouble, the producer told AllHipHop.com in a recent interview that he had to put his creativity over anything else.
"It's illegal, I know that and it may get me in trouble, but if I had thought about that I would have never made what I thought turned out to be one of the best things I ever did," he said.
While DJs and producers have created other hues of The Black Album, such as The Brown Album and The White Album, don't expect those to be pulled from shells.
The difference from other Jay-Z remixed albums is that Danger Mouse dared to use music from the Beatles catalog.
Sony Music and Michael Jackson own their catalog in a joint partnership and EMI Records controls the sound recordings.
Danger Mouse only pressed 3,000 copies of The Grey Album, and he said that he hoped the limited copies would protect him from further legal action.
Source: allhiphop.com