Although Sting appeared to be cool with Juice WRLD sampling his 1993 song “Shape Of My Heart” for the Nick Mira-produced hit single “Lucid Dreams,” things have apparently changed. In a series of since-deleted tweets, Mira blasted Sting and his team for allegedly threatening a new lawsuit.
“Fuck @OfficialSting and his WHOLE team,” he wrote on Saturday (November 17). “After taking 85% of Lucid Dreams (for interpolating Shape of My Heart, NOT EVEN sampling) he threatened to take us to court for trying to get any %. Sting ALSO flexed stealing our money and said it put his grandkids through college.”
He followed up with, “everybody put a FUCK @OfficalSting in the comments if you real.”
Last month, Sting told Billboard “Lucid Dreams” was a “beautiful interpretation that is faithful to the original song’s form” and joked the song’s royalties will “put my grandkids through college.”
The song, which was included on Juice WRLD’s debut album Goodbye & Good Riddance, reached the No. 2 spot on the Billboard 100 chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Now, it’s looking more like a lucid nightmare.
Lucid Nightmare ?♂️
Create your own shit and you wont have those problems.
stfu
Compelling argument.
Sometimes that’s the only argument that fits lmao.
lol lashing out after stealing someones work. cool
Its called fair use, he repurposed someone elses work which is inherently transformative in nature which makes it completely legal amd his property.
Its called fair use, he repurposed someone elses work which is inherently transformative in nature which makes it completely legal and his property.
Not to mention that literly every majon name producer samples, its impossible to compltly make a song with out them.
Nick Mira is a decent producer but from his YouTube videos (including his beat critiques) he seems like an unbearable asshole at times. He should keep his mouth shut on legal matters.
Why? Is not supposed to be a little cocky at 18?
Cocky doesn’t mean you know shit about legal matters.
Nas “The Message” also has the same sample. You’d think a hip hop website would’ve stated that too.
Ooooh burn. You really got em didn’t you?
Yeah he did.
Sting be rayciss n shieeet i mean he white after all so he must be #WakandaStrong
Oh ok so you had to steal his work because you are incapable of making any original beats and now its Fuck him? What happened to originality in hip hop? Stolen beats, stolen bars, stolen style, corny unoriginal names. Hip hop is so wack now a days.
Hiphop began off of samples, stfu you have no idea what you’re talking about
My dude he isnt a producer some kid nick just sends him beats and he raps.
pop sing songy bullshit like juice world is not hiphop
You’re ignorant to Hip Hop. This is taking one creation and giving it a different light, its a way to pay homage, which they did, Sting must be hurting for money. Know your hiphop history before you think you are making a good point.
There’s dumb and there is this post.A garbage ass rapper with a shelf life of 2 years is giving a different light to a song that’s been around for 25 years?By a singer who has been around 4 decades? There is sampling but you cant expect any publishing off of creations using interpolations and samples…The writer of the original composition gets 100 percent..If you think any of these artists from that era hurting you must not know anything about the music biz..period..
(Nick btw) he jus
used a very similar beat
And with that post I’d sue his ass to if I was sting
Kyle only post controversial topics because she’s a silly race baiting twit.
Blacks are dumb
Can we sue to never have to hear this trash song again?
Terrible song anyway….he should have done a cease and desist lol
ur trippin, this is fire.
So this guy gets 85% of the royalty for using an a very portion of his original which he green light. The song blew and now wants to dictate how much % he gets..85% is a huge piece of the pie. This guy is on some crook ish.
They gave him 75% he told them it was fine for them to use it and now he goes behind there backs and sues them??♂️? if you side with Sting well your obviously a dickhead because you don’t get that Nick is mad about him telling them it’s fine then sueing them outta nowhere.