Nicki Minaj has secured a legal victory against Tracy Chapman after the singer-songwriter sued the rapper in 2018 for copyright infringement.The case concerned the song ‘Baby Can I Hold You’, a track from Chapman’s 1988 debut album.
In 2017, Minaj had recorded a track ‘Sorry’ that interpolated the Chapman song.Chapman repeatedly refused to give Minaj and her representatives permission to use the song, and the track was dropped from the tracklist for Minaj’s 2018 album ‘Queen‘.Even though ‘Sorry’ didn’t end up on ‘Queen’, the track found its way into the hands of New York’s DJ Funkmaster Flex, who then broadcast it on air.
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