NLE Choppa has taken aim at Mike Jones over a sample dispute relating to “Still Tippin,'” calling the Texas rap legend “lame.”
The Memphis rapper dropped a new song on Friday (October 27) called “Cmon Freestyle,” which samples Jones’ classic 2004 song.
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However, Mike Jones claimed that he never gave NLE Choppa permission to use “Still Tippin’.”
“Don’t care about getting respect especially if the respect wasn’t shown 4 months ago prior to releasing the music without getting the business clear!” he wrote in an Instagram comment. “I told y’all #Welcome2TheMusicBusiness #StayTuned For Receipts & I wish a N-GGA Would.”
In response, NLE Choppa took to X to accuse Jones of “trying to copyright a song he got cleared.”
“Ion know if it’s Mike Jones or his team but on everything y’all dead wrong for trying to copyright a song I got cleared,” he wrote. “That’s some hating shit especially for a young n-gga like me that’s just tryna please his fans. Ion feel that I lost dumb respect but it’s cool fasho.
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“This man lame for that. I’m partnered with a major label! They not even going to release a song if it ain’t CLEARED. If that was the case you would’ve sued instead of copyrightng! Anybody can make a COPYRIGHT CLAIM! That don’t mean the record ain’t cleared. Broke activities.”
Choppa also claimed that Mike Jones doesn’t even own the rights to the original song.
NLE Choppa performed “Cmon Freestyle” for 4 Shooters Only‘s YouTube series From the Block, but the performance has since been taken down, with the video “no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Chappell.”
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Mike Jones posted a screenshot of the takedown to his Instagram page with the caption: “STANDING ON BUSINESS.”
Jones also shared a screenshot of an email from July 5 that stated NLE Choppa’s intentions to use the sample, but that they wouldn’t approve the request until a resolution was reached.
“Hi all, I received a new request to clear a Mike Jones interpolation/sample for a new NLE Choppa song coming out soon via Warner,” the email read.
“I informed Mike’s publisher (Warner Chappell) that we are unable to approve any new requests until we can reach a global resolution with you regarding all the issues currently at-hand regarding Mike Jones. Please advise. Reserving all rights. Thanks.”
Despite the dispute, NLE Choppa continued to promote the video on his Instagram Stories, writing: “Better than original.”
Mike Jones responded on his own Stories: “Let’s see what the #s say then its Business Nothing Personal.”
“Cmon Freestyle” was released as part of NLE Choppa’s new album Cottonwood (Deluxe 2.0), which clocks in at a lenghthy 40 tracks.
