{"id":15625,"date":"2012-07-16T15:31:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T19:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15625"},"modified":"2012-07-16T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T19:31:30","slug":"florida-dj-sues-usher-over-hey-daddy-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15625","title":{"rendered":"Florida DJ Sues Usher Over \u2018Hey Daddy\u2019 Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida DJ filed a lawsuit against<strong> Usher<\/strong> claiming that he created the original beat for the singer&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Hey Daddy&#8221;<\/em> single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aubrey Davis<\/strong>, also known as <strong>DJ Mixx<\/strong>, claims that back in 2008 he made a beat titled <em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s Go,&#8221;<\/em> and shopped it around for songwriters. <strong>Usher<\/strong> was given the track by a mutual contact, and the song allegedly became <em>&#8220;Hey Daddy,&#8221;<\/em> the lead single off his <em>Raymond vs. Raymond<\/em> album. The 33-year-old also copyrighted the record. Now, <strong>Davis<\/strong> and his lawyers&#8211;Singh, Singh &amp; Trauben&#8211; are firing back, seeking an unspecified amount in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Released in December of 2009, the song peaked in the No. 2 spot on the R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Charts, giving <strong>Usher<\/strong> his third consecutive top five R&amp;B hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida DJ filed a lawsuit against Usher claiming that he created the original beat for the singer&#8217;s &#8220;Hey Daddy&#8221; single. Aubrey Davis, also known as DJ Mixx, claims that back in 2008 he made a beat titled &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go,&#8221; and shopped it around for songwriters. Usher was given the track by a mutual contact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}