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Hipgnosis buys 75% stake in rapper songs for £18m

Music. Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, the new investment vehicle of former Elton John and Guns N’ Roses manager Merck Mercuriadis, successfully floated on the London Stock Exchange this week, raising £200M to buy up music copyrights. It immediately announced its $23m (£18m) acquisition of a 75% stake in the catalogue of American singer-songwriter, record producer and rapper Terius Youngdell Nash (better known by his stage name “The-Dream“).