Just doesn't make sense to me. How the fuck didn't they cover their bases on this, given how royalties and publishing work. Tina Turner's songwriters get a small % of sales money every time someone buys Machine Gun Funk, solely because Biggie said "what's love got to do with it." If Bad Boy couldn't get away with that, how the hell could they think this would fly.
If they had cited it as an interpolation no one would say shit, the Gaye family would get paid less over a period of time etc.