{"id":44782,"date":"2011-12-20T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T09:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=44782"},"modified":"2011-12-20T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:32:54","slug":"the-throne-respond-to-syl-johnsons-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-throne-respond-to-syl-johnsons-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z &#038; Kanye West Respond To Syl Johnson&#8217;s Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37648\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/mick-boogie-on-dj-ing-jay-z-kanyes-vip-afterparty\/wtt-listening-session-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wtt-listening-session-1.jpg?fit=428%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"428,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Kevin Mazur&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;(EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE)  attends the exclusive listening event for the highly-anticipated release by Jay-Z and Kanye West,\\&quot;Watch The Throne\\&quot; (Available August 8th) at the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on August 1, 2011 in New York City.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1312247007&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2011 Kevin Mazur&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wtt-listening-session-1\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;(EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE)  attends the exclusive listening event for the highly-anticipated release by Jay-Z and Kanye West,&amp;#8221;Watch The Throne&amp;#8221; (Available August 8th) at the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on August 1, 2011 in New York City.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wtt-listening-session-1.jpg?fit=428%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wtt-listening-session-1.jpg?resize=385%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"wtt-listening-session-1\" width=\"385\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-37648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wtt-listening-session-1.jpg?resize=385%2C540&amp;ssl=1 385w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wtt-listening-session-1.jpg?w=428&amp;ssl=1 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This past October, soul veteran Syl Johnson sued Jay-Z and Kanye West, as well as Universal Music Group and Def Jam, for sampling his song &#8216;Different Strokes&#8217; without permission for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/kanye-west-feat-pete-rock-jay-z-charlie-wilson-curtis-mayfield-kid-cudi-the-joy\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Joy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiphopdx.com\/index\/news\/id.18022\/title.jay-z-kanye-west-respond-to-syl-johnsons-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\">HipHopDX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/syl-johnson-to-sue-kanye-west-and-jay-z-over-the-joy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Syl Johnson to Sue Kanye West and Jay-Z over \u2018The Joy\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past October, soul veteran Syl Johnson sued Jay-Z and Kanye West, as well as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-bEi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}