Originally Posted by gideongallery

he didn't win it was settled out of court

The suit was settled out of court when Hammer agreed to credit James as co-composer



and if you know anything about the song

Stanley Burrell (MC HAMMER) wrote the lyrics

Alonzo Miller wrote the melody (music)


so that settlement was basically MC hammer keeping 100% of his royalties and Alonzo Miller Splitting his.

If you were MC hammer and you got to avoid all the legal expense of a trial you were entitled to win, and it cost you nothing to do it (and avoid all the bad press of "ripping off" a legend)

how stupid would you have to be to not settle.