Kanye West is being sued for allegedly using unlicensed samples in his music, yet again.
TMZ reports that the children of a deceased musician named David Pryor has filed a lawsuit against the 35-year-old rapper, alleging that he sampled a very small part of the song "Bumpin' Bus Stop," which Pryor wrote and sang with his band Thunder & Lightning in 1974.
Pryor's children, Trena Steward and Lorenzo Pryor, claim that 13 seconds into Kanye's 2005 smash hit "Gold Digger," is a lyric sampled from Pryor's song. The three are alleging that if you listen carefully, you can hear Pryor singing "Get Down" three times, echoing West singing, "Get down girl, go head, get down."
The pair, who each own one-quarter of the song, have asked a judge to stop the sale of the song and provide them with, "millions of dollars" in damages for the allegedly unlicensed sample.
The lawsuit claims that West...
TMZ reports that the children of a deceased musician named David Pryor has filed a lawsuit against the 35-year-old rapper, alleging that he sampled a very small part of the song "Bumpin' Bus Stop," which Pryor wrote and sang with his band Thunder & Lightning in 1974.
Pryor's children, Trena Steward and Lorenzo Pryor, claim that 13 seconds into Kanye's 2005 smash hit "Gold Digger," is a lyric sampled from Pryor's song. The three are alleging that if you listen carefully, you can hear Pryor singing "Get Down" three times, echoing West singing, "Get down girl, go head, get down."
The pair, who each own one-quarter of the song, have asked a judge to stop the sale of the song and provide them with, "millions of dollars" in damages for the allegedly unlicensed sample.
The lawsuit claims that West...
- 4/9/2013
- by Stephanie Marcus
- Huffington Post
Now, we ain't sayin' he a sampler ... but David Pryor's kids are saying it.
According to TMZ, in the beginning verse of "Gold Digger," when Kanye West says the line, "Get down, girl, go 'head, get down," Pryor, a member of the band Thunder & Lightning from the mid-1970s, is the voice echoing Kanye's line in the background -- "g-g-g-g-get down."
The songwriter's two children, Trena Steward and Lorenzo Pryor, say that's a sample of Thunder & Lightning's song "Bumpin' Bus Stop," which they own the rights to because their late father wrote and sang it in 1974.
Steward and Pryor say they want a judge to stop the same of "Gold Digger" and they want damages. There is no word as to exactly how much they are seeking, but as for stopping the sale of the song -- that's kind of a weird request, since it's nearly 10 years old.
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According to TMZ, in the beginning verse of "Gold Digger," when Kanye West says the line, "Get down, girl, go 'head, get down," Pryor, a member of the band Thunder & Lightning from the mid-1970s, is the voice echoing Kanye's line in the background -- "g-g-g-g-get down."
The songwriter's two children, Trena Steward and Lorenzo Pryor, say that's a sample of Thunder & Lightning's song "Bumpin' Bus Stop," which they own the rights to because their late father wrote and sang it in 1974.
Steward and Pryor say they want a judge to stop the same of "Gold Digger" and they want damages. There is no word as to exactly how much they are seeking, but as for stopping the sale of the song -- that's kind of a weird request, since it's nearly 10 years old.
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- 4/9/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
You know that song "Bumpin' Bus Stop?" Well no one does, but that hasn't stopped the songwriter's offspring from suing Kanye West for allegedly daring to sample a teensy-weensy portion of that most obscure song.David Pryor wrote and sang "Bumpin' Bus Stop" with his band Thunder & Lightning in 1974. Two of his children, Trena Steward and Lorenzo Pryor, each own about a quarter of the tune.They claim that 13 seconds into Kanye's "Gold Digger" -- his massive 2005 No.
- 4/8/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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