Legendary funk music master George Clinton is suing a former business partner in hopes of recovering the rights to his music. George Clinton and his Tallahassee lawyer Ben Crump, announced the action in New York City on Tuesday, March 11.
Lawyer Crump said around 90 percent of the copyrights to Clinton's music is now in someone else's hands.
"George Clinton today has filed a 100-million dollar lawsuit against Armen Boladian and Bridgeport Music and other companies."
Clinton joined Crump and other supporters in front of Harlem's famed Apollo Theater.
"Those songs were inspired by those trips here. It's been my life. They're my babies," he said, adding that the rightful proceeds from the songs he wrote would also provide security for his family.
Clinton and Boladian had been business partners, but that relationship ended in 1991. In a Tuesday statement to Rolling Stone Magazine, a Boladian spokesperson said this was just the latest in a series of "unfounded" suits by Clinton, whose music is among the most heavily sampled of any artist.
