Kanye West can walk away from a lawsuit over “New Slaves” that he has been battling for nearly a year. Yeezy reached a settlement with Hungarian artist Gabor Presser Monday (March 20) out of court and the case was “resolved amicably,” according to Page Six.
The terms of the settlement are not disclosed, but Presser sought $2.5 million when he took Kanye to court last May, saying the gold-certified Yeezus cut illegally sampled his “Gyöngyhajú Lány” (“The Girl with Pearly Hair”), which he released in 1969.
In his initial lawsuit, Presser said that after he found out his song was used, ‘Ye’s team reached out to ask for permission, sending him a check for $10,000 as Presser worked out the official details of the agreement. He said they seemed especially concerned about using the song for a street screening in promotion of Yeezus.
While Kanye was making million of dollars off the album and tour, Presser was left with $700 in royalty fees and said he never cashed the $10,000 check or signed a licensing agreement offered to him in January of 2014. He continued pursuing equal ground with the rapper’s team before finally going to court.
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Kanye had a small victory in the case as the trial was set to start May 15. Last month, the court allowed part of the procedures, specifically Yeezy’s deposition, to take place in Los Angeles instead of New York.
Well, now Kanye doesn’t gotta testify.
stop trying to make it sound dramatic like he was facing a body or something with “he doesn’t have to testify”.
corny as hell
This heffa wrote “he doesn’t GOTTA testify” what kind of English is that? You went to school for one thing and youre still not able! If you thought that was slang then ur mistaken. Go cover sports or something
I like that the person criticizing grammar uses “ur” and is missing a comma in that same sentence. He also merged two sentences into one. These commenters that always criticize the writing must be self-loathing people with boring lives. They keep coming back to a website that they want you to think they hate.
Well in his defense, there’s quite a difference between a hastily-written comment and a professional article.
Its “He AIN’T gotta testify” not “Doesnt Gotta’… I mean she can’t even get Hip Hop slang right. Go cover NBA or something
in other news: kanye west still a flamboyant homosexual who takes it up the anus
Kanye been up in the devils play house and he want out stealing somebodys track and not wanting to pay them don’t say to much Kanye you know when the devil get angry he will come to collect that soul even tho the evil empire is falling the devil time is up on earth
2 days before Kanye had to testify under oath. Must be coincidence. Especially that he blatantly copy-pasted third of the song.
Also, fun fact: Pressed said to the press he’s very glad that the case is over, but due to the closed [nature of the] agreement he can’t say a word about it. I think it’s safe to assume he walked away with 7 figures in dollars, and I’m not convinced it starts with number 1…