By Blessing Udeobasi
American rapper, Kanye West has been sued for allegedly sampling a song by a legendary house musician, Marshall Jefferson without permission in his recent music, Donda 2, released in February.
Jefferson’s publisher, Ultra International Music Publishing filed a complaint at New York’s US District Court on Wednesday accusing Kanye of using part of Jefferson’s 1986 hit Move Your Body at least 22 times on his track Flowers.
“I’ve been sampled thousands of times. There is a right way and a wrong way to go about it,” he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.
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“Getting done by another artist, a black artist, a fellow Chicagoan without acknowledgment is disappointing.”
The lawsuit says Kanye and his team had discussions with Jefferson’s representatives where they admitted to sampling Move Your Body in Flowers.
But it claims the rapper did not take a licence – which would have meant Jefferson was paid for using his track.
“West advocates for artists’ rights with one hand, yet has no shame in taking away rights from another artist with the other,” it says.
