Rick Ross’s video for the Hood Billionaire single “Movin’ Bass,” released back in March, is now at the center of a potentially profitable lawsuit. According to the high-class gods over at TMZ, photographer Armen Djerrahian is suing the Maybach Music Group mogul and parent label Def Jam for all profits related to the video and employing a possible court order to block the image from being used again in the future.
The image in question — Jay holding up the Roc sign at a show in 2003 — appears in the Ryan Snyder-directed video for a miniscule amount of time, only visible for a few seconds during a montage sequence. According to Djerrahian’s suit, he was never contacted about the photograph’s use in Ross’s video and was not credited in any fashion.
Source: Complex