Infamous rap group Mobb Deep allege ex manager Norman "Purfel Storm" Bell, produced unauthorized albums using copyrighted recordings and use of the groups name without permission.
In court documents obtained through TMZ, the duo Prodigy and Havoc claim Mr. Bell released musical performances and compositions that have been/or currently being sold at retail outlets. Bell is also charged with forging the rappers signature allowing distribution of the recordings.
The albums listed in the suit were the following:
"Mobb Deep The Infamous Archive"
- A double album released March 13, 2000
"Mobb Deep The Mixtape Before 9/11
- album released October 5 ,2004
"Purfek Storm Volume 1 & 3"
According to the rappers, they are owed over a million dollars in back royalties from the albums.
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Free P
IT's Tyme For Buddy To Get A Bottle Cracced Over His Head Too Like Max B Got At Tha Listenin Party.. Forgin Signatures Is Sum Disrespectful Shyt...Anotha Automatic One Should Be Handed To'em. An Ass Whoopin That Iz....Get'em..Scream At Me,1..
dammit man
who cares.. but.. 1 million from Royalties from these albums????? these albumz didnt really do too good .... lol soo i duno where the 1 million dollarz is gonna come from...
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Must need the money bad.
it pains me to see mobb deep now.... :(
Fuck it get all the money you can get.
pay them niggas their bread, dat was real grimey forging niggas signature, they should throw the book at him for that
Yea that's that white collar crime shit.
Good. Hip Hop is getting overrun with this bootlegging bullshit and corrupt record companies
some of you cats sound real ignorant....so if someone steals your identity, racks up on credit card charges and buys thousands of dollars worth of check books, you wouldn't sue for pain and suffering if you caught the person????? i hope mobb deep gets every penny, they worked hard and bums want to sale your shit without you knowing it and make money off of it
JERSY U GOTTA POINT CUZ WE ALL KNO MOBB WASNT GONNA ROB DAT DUDE...TRU LIFE GOT THESE NIGGAZ SHOOK OUT IN NY...BUT HNIC AND HNIC 2 WERE BOTH GOOD SHYT
BROOKLYN STAND UP...BEDSTY, NOSTRAND IS DA AVE COME HOLLA
LMAO yo BKBULLSHIT u right my nigga TRU LIFE got them niggaz shooked
212 stand up
but yo this some bull i'd sue his ass too
gimme my money nigga
o and 50 Cent’s “Blood on the Sand” Video Game Trailer is out if anyone aint see, like him or not the first game was fun and challengin and had dope tracks on it so im lookin foward to this cuz im gettin bored of nba 2k8
HNIC 2 is a great album.
free P i luv mobb and the unit
they should get their money back. fuck, if someone forged my signature that shit would get me mad.
they aint been good since The Infamous
co-sign...
nicca Amerikaz Nightmare was fire
Where deez nigguz been. Should've been on dat money grind. Know where yo money iz my nigga. Dey need to get the fuck away from Sweet Unit...lol
U aint a crook son, u just a shook one....
It shouldn't matter who there with it should matter what kind of music there putting out and it's alway been the same grimey rap music that i grew up on so a couple of ya'll need to get your minds right. Cosign homeboy HNIC2 Great Album.
why it take so long?
Damn.
These niggas are fall off artists, homo thugs, shook halfway crooks, just about whatever you think since they disowned God and chose 50 as thier new savior
Yo BKBULLSHIT get ya facts straight nigga mobb deep wasn't in da studio when tru life broke in. The nigga on the dvd even said they weren't there. And son what has tru life done, he aint put out nothin like The Infamous, Hell On Earth, or Murda Muzik. And gettin more than a million off some mixtapes is good shit son.
lets be real, mobb deep reached their prime already, there really arent a whole lot of rap cats that last a lifetime in the game, and even less duos. lets free p and they need to make another run, not necessarily an album, at least a tape or two and fa sho some shows, thats where the money at anyway. not too many cats gettin gwap off album sales other than your big name artists, and if it dont work out for them, they need to bow out gracefully, bottom line, suing a dude for a milli off some royalties whose total profits probably didnt make that much is weak
Yeah I Peeped this joint in best buy, I was shook cuz it clearly had nothing to do either Hav or P, even the Art was funky,…this manager will get his ass chewed up in Court, you the Mobb Got that New Money to get them Jew-Jew-Jew-Jew-Unit lawyers….
And as fare as Mobb Deep goes, they still got it, I could care less about what y’all cats have to say,…I picked up The KUSH (fi-ya) & HNIC 2 (ether); both albums are hard, but P’s shit was hardbody fuck what y’all heard….it’s one of if not the Hottest album out this year thus far,….i’m sure That Nas will push this over