{"id":8309,"date":"2011-07-11T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2011-07-11T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T19:32:04","slug":"ghostface-killah-sued-for-sampling-iron-man-theme-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"Ghostface Killah Sued For Sampling &#8216;Iron Man&#8217; Theme Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Wu-Tang Clan<\/strong> has never been shy about flaunting their influences: from martial arts to La Cosa Nostra, chess and, of course, superhero comics. But member <strong>Ghostface Killah&#8217;s<\/strong> love of one Marvel icon in particular, Iron Man, is putting the Shaolin rapper in some hot legal water.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, composer<strong> Jack Urbont<\/strong> is suing Sony Music Entertainment and <strong>Ghostface<\/strong> (born <strong>Dennis Coles<\/strong>) over claims the rapper illegally sampled his &#8220;Iron Man Theme&#8221; from the 1960s &#8220;The Marvel Super Heroes&#8221; TV show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghostface<\/strong>, who named his 1996 solo debut Ironman, and whose many aliases include Ironman and the superhero&#8217;s alter ego, billionaire industrialist <strong>Tony Stark<\/strong> (which <strong>Ghostface<\/strong> spells <strong>Starks<\/strong>), has long had a fascination with the character. But<strong> Urbont<\/strong> claims in his suit that two songs on <strong>Ghostface&#8217;s<\/strong> second album, 2000&#8217;s Supreme Clientele copied &#8220;verbatim&#8221; the &#8220;Theme&#8221; he wrote for the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wu-Tang Clan has never been shy about flaunting their influences: from martial arts to La Cosa Nostra, chess and, of course, superhero comics. But member Ghostface Killah&#8217;s love of one Marvel icon in particular, Iron Man, is putting the Shaolin rapper in some hot legal water. According to reports, composer Jack Urbont is suing [&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-8309","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\/8309","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=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}