The two labels were embroiled in a legal battle over the release of Welcome to the 305, an album that contains material Pitbull recorded before signing with TVT.
In March 2005, TVT sent a letter to Slip-N-Slides distributors indicating that the sale of 305 violated TVT's rights and that TVT would seek redress for violation of those rights.
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Slip-N-Slide Allowed To Release Pitbull Album
U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Brown ruled that "TVT's statement and letter that Slip-N-Slide's actions in promoting and distributing 305 were a violation's of TVT's rights (under a contract with Pitbull) was a misrepresentation which was made with knowledge and was clearly intended to cause the recipients of the letters to not purchase 305." The Court further found that "Slip-N-Slide's business relationships with it's distributors had been damaged by the TVT letter. Although Slip-N-Slide had already received 100,000 pre-orders of 305, they were unable to release the album because virtually every distributor that received the letter refused to sell it." The Slip-N-Slide recordings were tracked in 2001, before the rapper signed to TVT. Slip-N-Slide owner Ted Lucas claimed Pitbull signed over all rights to the recordings when they granted the rapper a release in 2003 to sign with TVT. On the contrary, TVT President Steven Gottlieb said that Slip-N-Slide was exploiting the investment they had made to make Pitbull a worldwide star and that Pitbull told TVT to block the release.
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