TVT Records Ordered to Pay Slip-N-Slide $9.1 Million

New York based independent record label TVT Records has been ordered to pay Slip-N-Slide Records $9.1 million in punitive and compensatory damages. After an 11-day trial, a federal jury agreed that TVT did in fact attempt to block Slip-N-Slide from releasing music by Miami based artist Pitbull. According to the Miami Herald, the suit was filed after Slip-N-Slide attempted to release their compilation album, Welcome to the 305, back in 2005. The LP featured vocals from Pitbull that were recorded prior to the release of his LP, M.I.A.M.I., on TVT in June of 2006. TVT felt that Florida based Slip-N-Slide, home to artists such as Trick Daddy and Rick Ross, was trying to capitalize off Pitbull’s sudden prominence on the national hip-hop scene. TVT then attempted to halt the release by sending out hundreds of letters to distributors saying the album had been illegally recorded. “TVT had objected to vocal snippets from early demos of our recording artist Pitbull being placed into new music, by new producers, with new hooks, new song titles and new material by new guest artists all repackaged for sale without the artist’s approval or involvement,” the company said in a statement. TVT also claimed that Pitbull’s logo and photos were used without permission. Slip-N-Slide’s attorney Richard C. Wolfe countered, “The jury rejected all those claims. We own the album. We’re going to tack $1 million to $2 million in legal fees onto this too.”

Slip N Side gettin paid............awready. That's what TVT gets for tryin to do em dirty.

i seen this shit i was like lil jon is jus broke not makin enough for his beats

lol yea...

i always thought pitbull was on slip n slide until i saw him wit lil jon all tha time..

didnt know that rick ross was on slip n slide....

Rick Ross is on 3 lables

but he started out with Slip And Slide...he got a partner deal Def Jam and Slip and Slide..Def Jam is his Distri..deal

mean while his lable whateva da fuck it is is his management team and blah blah blah

I always knew pitbull was on tvt neva knew he was on slip and slide lol

Lil Jon doesn't own TVT or any part of it does he?

well he owns bme i think and he mite own tvt.not exactli sure.

i thought TVT was a independant company and lil jon had BME signed with TVT imma do some digging

jus as i thought TVT is another Koch

i know a guy who works for them i jus found out he works for them so imma have to start fuckin wit them

TVT RECORDS

they are worst off then koch tho...at least koch has artist that people give a shit about but tha nuggas on tvt either u dont no or don't care

pitbull dont care
lumie dee dont care
twisted black? dont no nor care
New Years Day?? Dont no dont care

Yeah I thought tvt was a koch like label that bme was under...