Salt-N-Pepa slam UMG as the pioneering rap duo sue the record label for control of their master recordings.

The female MC’s filed a lawsuit against the music giant back in May in which they allege UMG is violating federal copyright law by denying them the copyright to their music after a certain amount of time has elapsed.

In a new interview with Good Morning America, the duo discussed the lawsuit.

Salt said: “When you’re an artist, in the beginning, you sign a contract saying that the copyrights will revert back to you after 35 years. And we’ve done all the things legally to get our copyrights back. But they’re just refusing, so we had to sue them.”

She added: “We didn’t have that leverage. We didn’t have that knowledge. We didn’t have that control in the 80s. And so, to be held to a

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