{"id":224,"date":"2020-08-31T07:13:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguitar.rocks\/?p=224"},"modified":"2020-08-31T07:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:13:54","slug":"kendrick-lamar-sued-over-loyalty-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar sued over Loyalty – Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Kendrick Lamar has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over his Rihanna collaboration, LOYALTY.<\/p>\n

Producer Terrance Hayes has claimed the hip-hop star’s Grammy-winning 2017 release is a copy of the: “composition, including title, melody, harmony and rhythm” from his own 2011 song by the same name.<\/p>\n

Hayes traced the similarity back to a mutual associate, musician Josef Leimberg, who had previously contributed to Lamar’s 2015 album, To Pimp A Butterfly.<\/p>\n

According to legal papers filed in California on 21 August, and obtained by Music Business Worldwide, the MC would have had access to Hayes’ work through Leimberg, including a 2016 remix of the original Loyalty, which he believes was used by Kendrick’s producer Terrace Martin. <\/p>\n

The papers allege Martin: “slowed (the track) down through a synthesiser and combined it with another sample to disguise the copying.”<\/p>\n

Hayes also argues the subject matter of Kendrick’s tune is ‘similar’ to his own, and he is demanding a jury trial to determine damages, although he is seeking to be awarded “all profits of Defendants”, as well as “any other monetary advantage gained by the Defendants through their infringement.”<\/p>\n

Leimberg and Martin are listed as defendants alongside Kendrick and his label and management representatives at Top Dawg Entertainment reports Music Business Worldwide.<\/p>\n

Publicists for Kendrick have yet to comment on the allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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