Producer Suing Lil Wayne Hires Musicologist to Help His Case

Lil Wayne is on the receiving end of a lawsuit over his song 'Mrs. Officer,' which features R&B singer Bobby V. AllHipHop.com reports that Michael 'Mali Boy' Bradford, the producer who has levied the suit against Weezy claiming he made the track's original beat, has stepped up his suit considerably.

Bradford has hired Musicology professor, Dr. Felicia M. Miyakawa of Middle Tennessee State University, to help prove his case and take it to trial. He claims that another producer reworked the music and did not attribute it properly.

AllHipHop.com also spoke with another Musicology professor, Dr. Miyakawa of the MTSU School of Music, to give his expert opinion on the matter. "Hip-Hop producers have become adept at reducing samples to smaller and smaller chunks of sound and reordering sampled bits so that the source material will be unrecognizable," Dr. Miyakawa says.

"But if random V103 audience members can hear these striking similarities, clearly the producer of 'Mrs. Officer' did not hide the source material and in particular the riffs -- adequately," Dr. Miyakawa continues. "Further, these riffs are the most identifiable parts of a larger groove that establishes the identity of a previously copyrighted song."

Bradford is seeking unspecified damages in the court case. This is not the first time that Weezy has been sued over his hit song 'Mrs. Officer,' which appears on his album 'The Carter III' and reached the No. 5 slot on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Producer Darius 'Deezle' Harrison also sued Lil Wayne in early 2010 for $2.5 million worth of unpaid royalties for the track, 'Mrs. Officer.'