B, oh B...why you gotta steal?

The Queen herself, well maybe the princess cause the Queen Mary is still relevant. But anyway the business about it is Beyonce is on the hook for Copyright Infringement. There must be a bug going around, recently Lil Wayne was accused of such as well as the Black Eyed Peas. And these are the people that we all spend all this money on- are they frauds? I would like to think not, creativity oozes from em all, but anywhere before we judge here goes the facts- Producer Rob Fusari produced Destiny’s Child’s hit “Bootylicious” and back then he claims that Matthew Knowles (B's Father) stole the production credits for Beyonce, and was bold enough to tell Rob to his face that he did so. Heres the entire situation from the horse's mouth

“I came up with the idea to build a track using the guitar riff from Stevie Nicks’ Edge of Seventeen. I figured I’d put the guitar loop on there temporarily, and later go into the studio with a guitar and replay it, because I’d learned, after sampling Stevie Wonder’s I Wish for Will Smith’s Wild Wild West, that I didn’t want to lose 50 per cent of the publishing (royalties). I vividly remember telling Mathew Knowles, ‘Mathew, you got to book me into your studio and let me replay that riff.’

“He didn’t want to do it. So 50 per cent got cut for one note. That whole experience was bittersweet for me.

“I remember watching Barbara Walters interview Beyonce about Bootylicious, and she told Barbara about how she came up with the idea for the track.”

Fusari, who went on to help Lady Gaga launch her pop career, insists he was brushed off when he complained about the interview, adding, “I called Mathew – which was a big mistake; I got emotional, and I apologised after – but I called Mathew and said, ‘Mathew, like, why?’ He explained to me, in a nice way, he said, ‘People don’t want to hear about Rob Fusari, producer from Livingston, N.J. No offence, but that’s not what sells records. What sells records is people believing that the artist is everything.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I know, Mathew. I understand the game. But come on, I’m trying too. I’m a squirrel trying to get a nut, too.’”

courtesy of theybf