Adding to the list of things that aren’t going well for Christina Aguilera, she’s now embattled in a lawsuit over the use of a sample in her song “Ain’t No Other Man” that was taken from a 1968 song without her label paying the rightful owner.
Xtina’s song reportedly uses a beat from Dave Cortez and the Moon People’s soul song “Hippy Skippy Moon Strut,” and according to the legal papers filed in a New York Courtroom, “TufAmerica bought the exclusive rights to the original song in 2004, but Aguilera’s label bosses at Sony made a deal with Codigo Music and the Clyde Otis Music Group to use the record.”
TMZ is reporting that TufAmerica is asking the judge to deem them the rightful owners of the track, and compensate them for damages.
Check out the song below. The clearly used the part of the song, so now it’s up to the judge to decide if they were allowed to do so or not.
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