(AllHipHop News) The Black Eyed Peas have been sued from planiffs that allege that the Hip-Hop/pop group copied “I Got a Feeling,” and “Boom Boom Pow,” two of their most popular hits.

Both suits were filed on Thursday November 28 in federal courts in Santa Ana and Los Angeles.

A Texas-based songwriter named Bryan Pringle filed the Santa Ana suit and charges his song, “Take a Dive,” was taken deliberately and re-christened “I Gotta Feeling.”

The Los Angeles lawsuit is a refilling of a previous claim from Chicago rapper Phoenix Phenom (nee Ebony Latrice Batts), and her producer Manfred Mohr. They allege that the Black Eyed Peas infringed on their song “Boom Dynamite” and made it into “Boom Boom Pow.”

Like the lawsuit filed in January of 2010, Batts claims that The Black Eyed Peas stole portions of her song “Boom Dynamite” and reused them in their worldwide hit single, “Boom Boom Pow.”Both Pringle and Batts are now represented by Dean A. Dickie of Miller Canfield, Ira Gould of Gould Law Group and George Hampton IV of HamptonHolley LLP. “Both Complaints allege that the Defendants UMG Recordings, Interscope Records and members of the Black Eyed Peas engaged in a pattern and practice of intentional copyright infringement with respect to the unlawful copying of songs of unknown or lesser-known artists. It is public knowledge that there have been multiple copyright infringement cases or claims brought against the Black Eyed Peas within the last year, and they are referred to in the Complaint,” said Dickie. “A simple listening to the songs will expose them as having been copied and being ‘substantially similar’– the legal standard in copyright infringement cases.”

UMG Recordings and Interscope Records are included in the Los Angeles complaint.

Both lawsuit request damages, past and future profits, credits and royalty payments.

(AllHipHop News) Iconic Peanuts cartoon character Charlie Brown has officially become a rapper. ABC is running commercials featuring Charlie Brown rapping  to a Hip-Hop beat promoting the special, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” During the commercial, “Charlie B. and the Peanuts Posse” raps: “Raking leaves and rolling on a pumpkin/Trick or treat then get the party pumpin.” “We just thought it was a great opportunity to really kind of do something different,” Marla Provencio said. “We’ve had this franchise for a long, long time…How many times can you do the traditional straightforward sell?” The updated commercial for the special, which was released in 1966, is part of an update the Peanuts franchise. “We opted to do something that was relevant for our time, that would maybe bring in a whole different audience and would be just attention-getting,” Provencio said. “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” airs tonight (October 29th) at 8:00 PM on ABC.Young Money rapper Lil Twist will release his new mixtape The Takeover: Carte Blanche Edition, on October 29th, 2010. Starting at midnight, fans of Lil Twist will be able to download the mixtape for free, via Lil Twist’s official website, www.liltwistthetakeover.com. The first single from the mixtape is titled “Wind It (Shut the Club Down),” which was produced by K.E. Lil Twist is currently putting the finishing touches on his official Young Money debut, The Take Over: Carte Blanche Edition. The album has confirmed appearances from Drake, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Sean Kingston, Lil Wayne and others.  Ebro Darden has been named Vice President of Programming for Emmis NY, making the executive responsible for the programming of three stations, including Hot 97, 98.7 Kiss FM and 101.9 RXP. The promotion is a part of the restructuring of Emmis’ top three performing stations. “This is very exciting and I’m very grateful to our SVP, Alex Cameron, for giving me this tremendous opportunity to lead the entire Programming Team here at Emmis NY,” Ebro Darden said in a statement. “Our priorities will be programming efficiency in PPM, growing our digital properties and keeping our brands focused on being culturally significant for our audiences…these are powerful brands and with the talented team here we’re going to continue to do some serious damage – lets go!” Ebro started with Emmis in 2003, after 13 years in radio in Sacramento, California. The promotion is effective immediately.

(AllHipHop News) A highly anticipated performance in Australia featuring Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad has been canceled, after the promoter of the event was scammed by a phony booking agent. In August, Peace Music made announcements for the performances, which was to feature the two Tribe Called Quest members for a date in Sydney on November 27th.Peace Music said they were victims of a scam artist who has already duped three other promoters throughout Europe. “It has very recently come to light the agent for the tour has grossly misrepresented the artists involved, and misappropriated payments made to him on behalf of the artists,” Peace FM said in a statement. “Despite meeting with management in Australia in August, the fact that the tour dates were little more than an elaborate scam did not come to light until very recently. On further investigation Peace discovered that the ‘agent’ in question, one James Richardson of Abstrakt Visions Entertainment, had defrauded three different European promoters in connection with misrepresenting Phife earlier in the year, and that he appeared to be little more than a career con man.”Peace Music said that despite their best efforts, they could not negotiate a legitimate date with the pair’s management, so the decision was made the scrap the date, which will be replaced with a performance by Pharoahe Monch, Jean Grae and Boogie Blind. The new show will take place at the Metro Theatre in Sydney on November 26th. Ticket holders to the Phife/Ali Shaheed Muhammad show are being offered a free refund, or a two-for-1 deal to the new show featuring Pharoahe Monch and company. “Peace would like to express our most sincere regret to all those who purchased tickets in connection with this tour and look forward to presenting some of the world’s best hip hop artists this summer, including De La Soul and Mos Def,” the company said in a statement.