Lil Wayne and Birdman Sued

Thomas Marasciullo from Florida filed suit recently against Lil’ Wayne and Birdman for copyright infringement.

Marasciullo claims his voice was recorded and used, but he was never paid.

Marasciullo claims that Cash Money Records had him speak on several “‘Italian-styled’ spoken word recordings” in 2006, which were subsequently used without pay or permission on the rappers’ joint 2006 album Like Father, Like Son [click to read], and Birdman’s 2007 album, 5 (Star) Stunna

Marasciullo claims to have written, recorded and copyrighted the tracks “Loyalty” and “Respect” from Like Father Like Son.

“Marasciullo discovered his work had been used when his daughter discovered his ‘Respect’ while trying buy a ring-tone version of the Aretha Franklin classic by the same name,” according to the report. “His son also became entangled in the case when he was fired from a recording engineer job at Cash Money Records after the father started demanding payment, according to the lawsuit.”