Rita Ora Addresses A$AP Rocky's Sexual Comments

Rita Ora sat down with HOT 97's Nessa and discussed her opinion on A$AP Rocky's single "Better Things," in which he makes sexual comments on the British singer-songwriter.
"I love what he does," Rita Ora says. "I like how, you know, he looks dope, whatever. But for me, it's not about me. It's about what people think they can get away with about speaking about women.
"I’m not looking at it like, ‘You’re upsetting me,' cos I don’t actually give a shit," Rita continues. "I really don't care what you got to say I got all this going on, like I got stuff going on in my own life. I got my own career to think about. Like you and me both know I care about my business more than anything. So, I actually don't care, you know what I'm saying? But I think about it, and I'm like, 'I don’t want people to think it’s OK to speak about women like that.'"
Hot 97's interviewer Nessa says that A$AP Rocky did later say his words were "tasteless."
"Oh he did?" Rita Ora says. "Oh I didn't pay no mind. I didn't look. That's nice. Still said it though, but that's nice.
"You want to apologize, you know where to find me," she adds.
For the last five years, Rita Ora says she cannot recall a time she was single. Now that she is, Ora says she feels fantastic and free.
"Don't get me wrong, even sometimes I'm like, 'Yo, am I gonna end up with like 10 cats? Am I gonna be that woman?'" she says with a laugh. "But then I think, 'No, you know, at this time it's just not mean to be.' Accept that, be happy with who we have, what we are, and I'm not trying to preach but I'm kind of saying this so I can hear myself say it, too. It's one of those things, man. [Relationships] don't mean everything."
Rita Ora's music video for "Body On Me" featuring Chris Brown is scheduled to be released August 21.

Busta Rhymes Being Investigated For Incident At BET Awards

Busta Rhymes is being investigated by police for threatening to slap fans at a BET Awards event, TMZ reports.
Busta allegedly was upset after a woman bumped into him while dancing. When she and her friend, Kim Simpson, started taking pictures with Flavor of Love co-star Deelishis, the rapper was agitated again and charged at a group of people.
"Don’t make me slap you," he said.
Simpson filed the police report and law enforcement is seeking to interview Rhymes about the incident.
Busta was arrested last week for throwing a protein drink at a man while at the gym

Jay Z & Timbaland To Testify In "Big Pimpin" Lawsuit

Court documents were filed yesterday (August 10) in the lawsuit over the rights to the sample in Jay Z's song "Big Pimpin'." In the documents, both Jay Z and Timbaland are scheduled to testify in the case, which goes to trial October 13, Billboard reports. Timbaland produced the song.
Osama Ahmed Fahmy filed the lawsuit in 2007 against Jay Z, Timbaland and outlets who used the song for promotional purposes. Fahmy is the nephew of Baligh Hamdy, who composed "Khosara, Khosara," which was identified as the track sampled in "Big Pimpin'."
When the song was released in 1999 on Jay Z's Vol. 3 ... Life and Times of S. Carter, Timbaland paid $100,000 to clear the sample with EMI Music, who said it owned the rights to the song via a deal with an Egyptian company in conjunction with an agreement from Hamdy's family.
Fahmy says that because the artists did not get the consent from the author of the original song through his family according to Egyptian law, any use of the song would be unauthorized.
"The evidence will also show that the defendants did not obtain the consent of the author or his heirs to introduce modifications in or additions to 'Khosara Khosara,'" the plaintiff statement reads. "Therefore, any license to economically exploit 'Khosara Khosara' in 'Big Pimpin'' would be null and void."
Jay Z, Timbaland and the defendants state that the use of cultural customs does not apply to United States law and that they used the sample legally.
"Throughout the course of this litigation, Plaintiff has consistently tried to make this a case about so-called 'moral rights,'" the statement reads, "complaining for example that under Egyptian law, authors and their heirs can always refuse to permit use of a composition in manners deemed to be 'objectionable,' regardless of whether they previously gave up all of their economic rights in connection therewith. This Court, however, already has properly determined that moral rights have no application in the United States, and cannot support Plaintiff’s copyright infringement claims."