A Florida man wants rappers Lil Wayne and Birdman to show him respect – for using his voice in an album track called just that. Thomas Marasciullo filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Friday in a Manhattan federal court against the rappers, their record label and various music distribution outlets. The lawsuit said Cash Money Records had him cut some “'Italian-styled' spoken word recordings” in 2006, then used them without pay or permission on “Respect” and other tracks from the rappers' joint 2006 album “Like Father, Like Son” and Birdman's 2007 “5 (Star) Stunna.” A lawyer and representatives for Cash Money Records and Universal Music Group, which has a distribution and marketing deal with the label, didn't immediately return messages Friday.
