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Clearly, I should have logged off about 10 minutes ago…because when you’re on the internets too late on a Friday night, you enter the Twilight Zone and things get loopy…..case in point, an email from Tila Tequila’s new website, MissTilaOMG, tipping off her exclusive scoop that Playboy is suing Drake, Cash Money Records and Universal Music Group for not clearing a sample in the song “Best I Ever Had” from their holding , the 1975 Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds’ song “Falling In Love.”
So many things here are making me want to go lay down….Playboy Music? A Tila Tequila exclusive…that isn’t about Tila? The fact that this sample still hasn’t been cleared for a mixtape that’s been out for over a year, and was even re-released in stores? I usually ignore litigation stories, but I really just noticed because of this motley combo of players.
Then again, sample clearance missteps are nothing new and rarely personal…Even cases like The Fugees vs Enya, it’s just sloppiness on an admin level. I’m sure Drake and Playboy Enterprise’s lawyers will smooth it over with sparkly chunks of change or a private serenade in the Grotto.
But let’s just soak in this quote from Tila’s post:
“Well…Drake is cool and all, but it kinda DOES sound like his song. DAYAM!! SO DOES THAT MEAN HUE HEFFNER IS DRAKE’S GHOST WRITER???”

*blank stare* (but thank you to OMG staff for the tip.)

Here’s the original….Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds’ song “Falling In Love.”

And here is Drake’s “Best I Ever Had”