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 ...

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.

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 ...

In a lawsuit more than four years in the making, Jay Z has finally testified in a dispute over his hit 1999 song "Big Pimpin'", in which a relative of Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdy claimed he made a ...

In December 1999, during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, Jay-Z released his fourth studio album Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter. With hits like “Things That U Do” with Mariah Carey and ...

Judge dismisses lawsuit filed by Osama Fahmy, nephew of Baligh Hamdi, an Egyptian composer whose 1957 song Khosara Khosara features in the 1999 hit Jay Z has won a copyright infringement trial ...

'Big Pimpin Pappy' was once on top of the pimping world. By one estimation, he controlled 90 percent of the escort business in Florida's Broward County. Then he was arrested, sent to prison and then ...

Even as arguably to be of the game’s most successful artists, Jay-Z still has some regrets about the decisions made in his career and more specifically, the songs that he offered up to the public ...

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 ...

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 ...