Kendrick Lamar’s music is facing another lawsuit, this one from Bill Withers’ publishing group over a sample used in the Compton, California rapper’s 2013 song “I Do This.”
According to Billboard, Mattie Music Group is suing Lamar and his label, Top Dawg Entertainment, for damages for copying the production of “Don’t Want You To Stay” off Withers’ 1975 album, Making Music, Making Friends.
“The musical composition ‘I Do This’ consists of nothing more than new, so-called Rap or Hip Hop lyrics, set to the existing music of ‘Don’t Want You To Stay,'” the suit says.
TMZ also reports the lawsuit, saying that the company is demanding Lamar to stop using the sample.
“I Do This” appears on Lamar’s self-titled EP, which is available for purchase at select retailers including Amazon. It is mostly distributed for free as a mixtape.
Lamar has faced recent lawsuits over the single art for “The Blacker the Berry” and for sampling The Alan Parsons Project’s “Old and Wise” on “Keisha’s Song (Her Pain)” and for a sample on “Rigamortus.”
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Fuck TDE ! The best label is Roc nation we got Jay-Z & j.cole & jay electronica & Vic mensa we the best we rule hiphop!
Don’t forget Willow Smith homie lol
Jay electronica???????? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahahahahahahaha
I see how you rule hiphop… Jay 40 something with no more juice, Jay Elec got like 5 songs, and Vic Mensa… lets not talk about that one, its pure embarassment lol
Except Jay Z isn’t putting out any more albums and Jay Elect has never put an album out and will likely never. J Cole the hottest thing in that camp right now.
Can’t believe he namedropped Vic Mensa….
T.I. is a antman alright. He a shorty. A little nigga. Plus i hear he snitch.. he was even doing some psa’s on tv for the popo.. how you gonna explain a sentence so light? Nigga had fuckin assault rifles with silencers and some coka. What he got, like a couple months and the nigga was home. That shit don’t add up.
Why the fuckare u talkingbout t.i for
T.I.’s been flaunting it in our faces too, even his name is T.he I.nformant.
Kendrick stay in the lawsuit game…his lawyers must love him. WHats up with people not getting proper sample clearnences?? what makes you think you can just use someone else work for you own without paying them? in this day and age this should never happen.
Just my 2 cents…fuck what you think, and eat some ass.
U wanna namedrop alright
The coup
Black milk
Richie sosa
The roots
Jurrasic 5
Talib kweli
R a the rugged man
Brown bag allstars
Snowgoons
Esoteric
Sa acabo remix
Never let me down >>>>>>> all of life of pablo
Fuck you
Be nice kanye … Go tap kk
There just now finding out about that sample ? Lol wtf. It’s clearly from that withers song but it’s changed up and mixed differently. I thought you could do that. Like paraphrasing someone’s written work….
wither away
What the fuck is a Vic Mensa?
Why does Kendrick look like Whoopi Goldberg in that picture..?
Because he arrived to the ceremony from a Lupe Fiasco look-alike contest.
Zzzzzzz
bruh dont compare TDE to roc nation like
you got the likes like kendrick lamar who rules the whole game
and than u still got like ab soul the genius
schoolboy q party banger
jay rock ..
sza
isaiah
gtfo outta here
That’s one of my favorite songs
k dots a bitch