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"EMI, the company that controls the Beatles&amp;apos; catalog, has issued a &amp;quot;cease and desist&amp;quot; order to an underground DJ who fused the Fab Four&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;White Album&amp;quot; with Jay-Z&amp;apos;s The Black Album.\r\nDJ Danger Mouse (a.k.a. Brian Burton) took a cappella tracks from Jay-Z&amp;apos;s latest record and married them to samples from the Beatles&amp;apos; double-album classic and dubbed the new creation The Grey Album. Danger Mouse hadn&amp;apos;t initially intended the record for commercial release, pressing only 3,000 copies for non-retail distribution. But the limited-edition copies made their way to the Web, where they&amp;apos;ve begun to spread to a wider audience.\r\nDanger Mouse claims that he hasn&amp;apos;t distributed any additional copies, making him compliant with the order, though his Web site still boasts that the record &amp;quot;will be made available worldwide&amp;quot; this month or next. And according to the DJ, he still hasn&amp;apos;t received the mark of disapproval that would sting the most.\r\n&amp;quot;If somebody like Ringo or Paul McCartney heard it, I think they would dig it,&amp;quot; Danger Mouse told Rolling Stone. &amp;quot;[But] if Jay-Z heard it and said, &amp;apos;This sucks, dude,&amp;apos; then I&amp;apos;d be like, &amp;apos;OK, everyone please send me back their copies.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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