“He’s on the high with billions in his financial institution”

Underground producer TSVI has accused Kanye West of “stealing” a pattern from certainly one of his songs.

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The musician took to social media on April 3, claiming that West used a pattern of his track ‘12345678’ on the observe ‘Consider What I Say’ from 2021’s ‘Donda’. “That is loopy I simply discovered Kanye West sampled certainly one of my tracks in Donda wtfff,” he initially wrote. “Why am I discovering out about this solely now????? I must receives a commission asap”.

TSVI went on to allege that West sampled the phrases ‘one’ and ‘six’ from subject recordings made by the producer, whereas the ‘work it’ phrase was sampled by TVSI.

He then posted an extended follow-up tweet (as per MusicTech), calling it one of the “surreal” issues to occur to him: “Fuck Kanye although. I’ve seen tales of him stealing samples from different producers within the underground music scene, and it sucks.

“We producers are on the backside of the chain; he’s on the high with billions in his checking account, with a group of producers who’ve full freedom to pattern no matter they need. He has an infinite pattern pack at his disposal, which he can use as he pleases, with none repercussions.

“Anyway, I’ll in all probability by no means see any cash from this, however I respect all your assist and type messages.”

In a remark to MusicTech, TSVI responded: “The minimal that I’d like to achieve from this example is a minimum of a credit score on the track.”

NME have reached out to Kanye for remark.

This isn’t the primary time West has been accused of “stealing” samples. Ozzy Osbourne hit out towards West and known as him an “anti-Semite” for utilizing Black Sabbath’s ‘Iron Man’ with out permision final February. Spouse Sharon subsequently known as West out, saying he “fucked with the mistaken Jew this time”.

West subsequently eliminated the ‘Iron Man’ pattern from his track, however changed it with a pattern of his personal track ‘Hell Of A Life’ – which additionally samples ‘Iron Man’.

Donna Summer time‘s property has additionally criticised the musician for utilizing a pattern of her seminal observe ‘I Really feel Love’ with out permission. West additionally allegedly used a Backstreet Boys pattern with out their consent as nicely in his observe ‘All people’, referencing their hit track.

In different information, West has been sued by a former Yeezy and Donda Academy pupil for allegedly threatening to “cage” his college students. Trevor Phillips has accused the musician of a variety of allegations together with verbal abuse, threatening bodily violence and evaluating himself to Hitler.

Whereas representatives haven’t but responded to the allegations dropped at gentle by Phillips, they’ve beforehand dismissed claims in regards to the Donda Academy. In a previous response from Ye’s lawyer (through NBC Information), the previous workers’ descriptions of the varsity had been described as a “dystopian establishment designed to fulfill Ye’s idiosyncrasies”.

“None of it’s true and the allegations do a disservice to the Donda Academy’s present workers and college students and their dad and mom who will attest to their constructive expertise,” they stated in a 2023 submitting.