Roc Nation, owned by rap guru Jay Z, has been slammed with a lawsuit by Prince’s record company NPG Records for copyright infringement.According toTMZ, NPG Records is suing Jay Z’s company for “illegally streaming just about every hit song the late singer ever released.”The media house gathered that Roc Nationoverstepped the agreement the late singer signed with them before his death: Prince had agreed for Roc Nation to use Tidal to stream only the last album ‘”Hit N Run: Phase 1″ which he released before his death. But Tidal streamed all the singer’s hit songs after his death.Rap Up says Roc Nation streamed the late singer’s 15 albums, and TMZ adds that thelawsuit lists over three pages of songs which include smash hits like, “I Wanna BeYour Lover,” “1999,” “Little Red Corvette,” “Cream,” “Purple Rain,” “Controversy,” and “Pop Life.”This comes just days after Prince’s estatedeniedJay Z’s $40 million bid for the late singer’s unreleased catalog. Prince’s sister Tyka, and her husband, Maurice Phillips, were interested in the deal but the estate shut it down, saying that it isn’t interested in the deal that would allow Roc Nation to “exploit any of [its] intellectual property assets.”For the copyright infringement suit, the amount the record label is seeking in damages is yet to be revealed, but TMZ reports that it will be enormous.
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