Nicki Minaj To Pay Tracy Chapman $450K In Copyright Suit Over Leaked Song Sorry
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Minaj will have to pay Chapman $450,000 as well as her legal fees
The rapper was sued for sampling Chapman s Baby Can I Hold You in her 2018 track Sorry without her permission
Nicki Minaj has agreed to pay Tracy Chapman almost half a million dollars after the latter sued her for taking her work without permission.
Chapman was victorious after suing Minaj for her track Sorry, which sampled the former s song Baby Can I Hold You, court documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter revealed. Chapman had accepted Minaj s offer of judgment, thus they will not proceed to a trial.