More money more problems it seems for Lil Nas X as he is being sued $25 million for using singer Bobby Caldwell’s 1982 song “Carry On” without permission.
The song didn’t make the cut for his debut EP 7, but the “Old Town Road” rapper’s work sampling the Caldwell record was uploaded to various platforms including YouTube, Spotify and SoundCloud.
https://soundcloud.com/ty-garcia-151899984/lil-nas-x-carry-on
TMZ reports as of early July, the song had four million views on YouTube before being removed from the platform. The lawsuit was initiated by The Music Force, a Culver City-based publishing company who owns the rights to the original song.
The publisher alleges the Billboard sensation was “motivated by greed and malicious intent.”
Sony is also included in the suit as Lil Nas X is signed to the record label. The Music Force believes the record company should have ensured the sample was cleared.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the publishing company wants $10 million in damages to rectify “confusion in the marketplace” it claims to have completely destroyed the value of its property, along with $15 million in punitive damages.
Lil Nas X has been riding the success of his historic hit record and EP. “Old Town Road” is currently No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been for 16 weeks, while his extended play 7 debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
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I ain’t with that gay shit, pay up.
Imagine being so insecure in your sexuality that a gay man making money hurts you.
The newest bullshit on the market. Why does anyone listen to this junk?
Regardless of what anyone things of LNX how the F does $25M get calculated for a song that got no official release and will probably earn the artist about $4.36 in streaming revenue???
Yeah that’s out there!
That’s the nature of the beast. You don’t touch other people’s material, you don’t use other people’s material, you don’t upload other people’s material without permission…it’s that simple. The mere fact that he and Sony probably financial benefited from it, it ain’t like they don’t have it anyway. So, if those people can justify getting 25 million from all parties involved, so be it.
Madlib & MED got juice,they used it 1st.
Stop snitching
I wonder how his family feels about the things he let’s other men do to him?
They feel the same as any other family that is getting money from their rich gay relative
they feel the same way your family does when you let your girlfriend put a dildo in your butt.
Only Real Men can enjoy that
Just another pathetic money grabber attempt. They can be happy if they get 50$
Good. F this weirdo. Bobby Caldwell is awesome.