Let’s start off with the new-new: my girlfriend Tinashe just put out a new potential club banger in Fuckin Wit Me, produced by Big Sean’s favorite O-Lineman, DJ Mustard. Listen to that below:

Here’s why we’re really here, though. It appears as though DJ Mustard has double-booked the beat, or at the very least, leased it to two artists. The other? That would be Flo-Rida, who glided over a crispier version of the same exact melody, along with August Alsina on Rear View, more than a year ago. Check that one out here:

There are countless examples of this type of situation, particularly because producers often LEASE their beats. Essentially, that means the artist paid for the right to record over the beat, but not for ownership or copyright. Usually when situations like this occur, it’s between a big artist and a young up-and-comer who think’s they’re being slighted, when in reality they just don’t get the business yet. What makes this so interesting is that this is the SECOND instance involving DJ Mustard, who also was involved in a short dispute involving Jamie Foxx‘s Party Ain’t A Party (Read more on that suit here)

The most high profile instance of this occurring off the top of my head is when Zaytoven double-booked the beat for Usher‘s Papers and Gorilla Zoe‘s So Sick:

This situation turned out to be Zoe not owning the beat, and Usher not caring that he had previously used it. I think that’s how we’ll see this situation play out (if it even becomes one). Can you think of other instances of multiple artists using the same beat for different songs (excluding freestyles)? Give us some examples in the comment section.