Jigga what? A guy wants $88 million bucks out of Jay-Z not for a lyric he jacked, or a sample he stole -- but for stealing that ultra-exclusive technique of ... rapping in a low whisper.
We're not kidding: Mitchell Rose, who tells us he's a boxer/lawyer/rapper, has filed suit in Brooklyn alleging that he created the technique of "whisper rapping." Rose says that Hova subsequently adopted the technique without properly crediting him -- and now he wants to get paid!
The same Mitchell Rose once wrote a book called "Mike Tyson Tried to Kill My Daddy." Jay-Z's rep didn't return our call for comment.
Celebrity Justice6/12/2008 4:15 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
Crazy Jay-Z Suit Demands Serious Hush Money
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didn't the ying-yang twins or someone have a whisper song already
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CELEBS HAS NO COMMON SENSE OR DO THEY PAY IN FULL CASH:
THIS LAWYER SHOULD OF PATENT IT ............."WHISPER"
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oh my god...SHUT up. how retarded. get a life. he read the Forbes list yesterday...filed suit today
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Trust me, I've heard the whisper rapping and it is NOT worth $88mil. I read about Jay-Z at celebrityprayerlist.com too.
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No! You all gotta back off here! I feel his PAIN!!! I came up with the loud shout type of talk and it was stolen!!! Stolen by deaf people all around the globe! I haven't seen one red CENT for this LOUD SHOUT talk at all!. All kinds of latins and arabs use it in their videos all the time AND I GET NOTHING! 88 million is chump change for him loosing his whisper rap. Just like diddy! He OWNED the rights to the word DADDY! I tell my girl "yo, you can't call me daddy no more cause I ain't even on with paying Diddy for that shiznit". Make him like a prostitiute you know? I got too much respet for that man to do that.
Oh, and I must really be reading this too much cause... Iowa girl, really? "oh my gosh"? Oh my gosh, jenny, look at her butt. Great now they gonna sue me too!
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Shouldn't all rappers pay homage and royalties to Dr. Seuss and his family? Take his "lyrics" from the
book Green Eggs and Ham. "I will not eat them in a box I will not eat them with a fox, Sam I am."
Now, compare these to rap lyrics such as " Yo, ho I have a gun, you had better run, no bi*ch that ain't my son."
Start writing the checks, Snoop, Diddy, Queen L. and the rest.
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Why sue Jay-Z? The Yin Yang Twins did the whisper song.
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WTF , people will sue for money for anything ,,
who gives a crap , alot of artists sound alike ,, like country geez they all sing sound alike ,,try heavy metal ...
wtf get a real job stop that stupid suing over nothing , besides you probley sound like sh*it
everyone wants free money i swear , go work for it ..
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Mitchell Rose, who tells us he's a boxer/lawyer/rapper this is rose quote ,, theres noway that a-hole is a lawyer and passed the bar ,
he sure has gotten alot KO, hit in head to state that .
no way ,, if he was a lawyer he would know this case is pure garbage ,,
go back to boxing seems like you need more brain damage and KOs...
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