Kendrick Lamar is running into some legal troubles, and is being sued for using a Bill Withers sample on his Kendrick Lamar EP way back in 2009. On the EP, Lamar used a portion of Withers track “Don’t You Want To Stay” on his song “I Do This.” The rapper is being sued for damages by Mattie Music Group and for using the sample without permission.
The music group asserts that the own the rights to the Withers song and in legal documents filed Mattie Music Group asserts that his song is essentially a replica of “Don’t You Want To Stay.” In the official documents released by TMZ the group stated that it “consists of nothing more than new rap and hip-hop lyrics set to the existing music of ‘Don’t You Want To Stay.”
According to NME, this is not the only lawsuit floating around for Lamar, who is also being sued by a Philadelphia woman who claims that he pilfered some themes that the two had initially talked about for his album To Pimp a Butterfly. She is also suing Beyonce and Jay Z for similar infractions.
Lamar has yet to issue a response to either of his two pending lawsuits.
In other news, last month Lamar released a surprise album called Untitled Unmastered, which was full on previously unreleased tracks. Untitled Unmastered can be counted as Lamar’s fourth studio album, and follows his Grammy winning album To Pimp a Butterfly. His latest features eight songs that hold ambiguous titles that only have a series of dates beside them. It is suspected that the tracks on Untitled Unmastered were created in 2013 and 2014, which was also the same time that Lamar began working on To Pimp a Butterfly.
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