By now we’ve all heard about Robinson Cano’s $240 million (or 89

By now we’ve all heard about Robinson Cano’s $240 million (or 89 million Dick’s Burgers) deal with the Mariners. By any measure, be it Dick’s or dollars, Cano is having a good day.

Jay-Z, Cano’s agent, is likely just as happy given the cut he’ll be taking from the deal. It might have come just in time too, as the rapper has “just failed in a bid to wrap up a six-year-old lawsuit over the sampling of ‘Khosara, Khosara,’ from the 1960 Egyptian film Fata Ahlami, used on his 2000 mega-hit song, Big Pimpin,'” according Hollywood Reporter today.

“Big Pimpin’,” Jay-Z’s classic anthem with UGK has come back to haunt him today thanks to the nephew of Khosara Khosara’s original composer, who is not letting the copyright suit go away.

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As Spin suggests, that Cano cut from the Seattle deal might just end up funding Jay-Z’s rebooted Egyptian lawsuit, putting a bit of a damper on what would otherwise be a Big Pimpin’ day for Hova.