In March 2019, Williams and the city of Virginia Beach announced the launch of a three-day music and cultural festival titled Something in the Water, to be held during College Beach Weekend, April 26-28, on the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. The jury awarded the Gaye family $7.4 million in damages for the copyright infringement based on profits generated. In 2015, a unanimous jury determined that Williams's 2013 hit song 'Blurred Lines' was an infringement of the 1977 Marvin Gaye song 'Got to Give It Up'. At the 2015 Grammy Awards Williams performed an orchestral rendition of 'Happy' with composer Hans Zimmer and pianist Lang Lang that included a tribute to the Black Lives Matter 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' movement inspired by Eric Garner's death and the events in Ferguson, Missouri. He also recorded a song 'Shine' with Gwen Stefani for the Paddington movie. Williams recorded three songs for the soundtrack to the animated film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. On February 8, 2015, Williams made a cameo in an episode of The Simpsons entitled 'Walking Big & Tall' where he comes to Springfield to write a new anthem for the town. In January 2015, Williams and Al Gore announced that they are teaming up to create a 7-continent 'Live Earth' concert on June 18 to raise awareness about and pressure governments to act on climate change. However, some like Mase's 1997 song 'Lookin' at Me' from his album Harlem World, and the most definite beginning of the distinctive 'Neptunes sound', came with N.O.R.E's 'Superthug' in 1998, reaching number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100, and gaining them widespread attention for the first time. Over the next three years they continued to produce occasionally, and some of the results had little resemblance to the Neptunes' sound later. In 1994, Hugo and Williams had established themselves as a production duo under their old name 'The Neptunes', and assistant-produced 'Tonight's The Night' from Blackstreet's self-titled album. Williams and Hugo met rap duo Clipse in Virginia Beach in 1993, where they were signed to Arista Records through Williams' Star Trak Entertainment imprint. That same year, he also performed a small rap solo on SWV's second hit, 'Right Here (UK Remix)'. Through working with Riley, Williams went on to write a verse and help produce for Wreckx-N-Effect's 1992 hit 'Rump Shaker'.
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