Baadasssss: Melvin van Peebles sues ASCAP for $20 million…
According to Variety's blog The Set List, Blaxploitation renaissance man Melvin Van Peebles (TMT Feature) recently filed a $20 million lawsuit with the New York State Supreme Court against ASCAP, a major organization that collects
Melvin Van Peebles explored his distrust of “the man” when he was making the films “Don’t Play Us Cheap,” “The Story of a Three Day Pass” and “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.” A writer, director, actor and composer,
I've always known he was a rennaisance man, but I don't think I've ever heard any of his music, other than what he created for Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and I didn't particularly care for any of it.
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