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Michael Jackson and R. Kelly are turning the volume down at Jay-Z's dance club. "The New York Post" reports that the hip-hop mogul has been slapped with a federal lawsuit filed by Kelly, Jackson and more than a dozen music publishers over royalty payments. The group says Jay-Z's 40/40 Club has been playing their music without compensation. In a lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, the group accuses 40/40 of skirting licensing rules to entertain clubgoers with, quote, "unauthorized public performance of musical compositions." According to the "Post," a BMI researcher dropped in unannounced to the 40/40 Club last year and found Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and "Don't Stop," R. Kelly's "Thoi Thoing" and Kanye West's "Gold Digger" among seven unlicensed songs played at the club. An attorney for the club declined to comment on the lawsuit.
