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The late Donna Summer season’s property accused Kanye West of copyright infringement.
“Kanye West … requested permission to make use of Donna Summer season’s music ‘I Really feel Love,’ he was denied,” a press release on Summer season’s official Instagram Story learn on Saturday, February 10. “He modified the phrases, had somebody re-sing it or used AI nevertheless it’s ‘I Really feel Love.’”
The staff of the legendary disco star concluded: “Copyright infringement!”
They tagged the official accounts for West, 46, Ty Dolla Signal, Warner Chappell Music, Common Music Group and Sharon Osbourne in her publish. West allegedly used an interpolation of Summer season’s “I Really feel Love” on one among his new tracks. Her property stays in command of her artwork following her 2012 loss of life at age 63 as a consequence of lung most cancers.
Sharon, 71, and husband Ozzy Osbourne shared related complaints a number of hours earlier.
“@kanyewest ASKED PERMISSION TO SAMPLE A SECTION OF A 1983 LIVE PERFORMANCE OF ‘WAR PIG’ FROM THE US FESTIVAL WITHOUT VOCALS & WAS REFUSED PERMISSION BECAUSE HE IS AN ANTISEMITE AND HAS CAUSED UNTOLD HEARTACHE TO MANY,” Ozzy, 75, wrote by way of X on Friday, referring to the Black Sabbath music. “HE WENT AHEAD AND USED THE SAMPLE ANYWAY AT HIS ALBUM LISTENING PARTY LAST NIGHT. I WANT NO ASSOCIATION WITH THIS MAN!”
West and Ty Dolla Signal’s new album, Vultures, dropped on Friday, February 9, after an official listening social gathering at some point earlier in Chicago. Neither rapper has publicly addressed the complaints. Us Weekly has reached out for remark.
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Sharon additional alleged that West, “true to type,” went forward and used the “Battle Pigs” pattern no matter being denied permission.
“The Osbourne household have by no means wished any affiliation with Kanye West,” Sharon wrote by way of X on Saturday. “He’s an anti-Semitic idiot who spews his rhetoric out into the world, Kanye you f—ked with the fallacious dude this time. Sincerely, Sharon Osbourne.”
In 2022, West made headlines for sharing antisemitic remarks on Instagram and X that bought him quickly banned from the social media platforms. Whereas West finally apologized for his feedback, he misplaced a number of million-dollar model offers.
Kanye West continues to be dropped by main manufacturers because the backlash towards his antisemitic feedback grows higher. The “Well-known” artist made headlines on October 8 after tweeting, “I’m a bit sleepy tonight however once I get up I’m going loss of life con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE. The humorous factor is I truly can’t be […]
West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, condemned his feedback. (The rapper and Kardashian, 43, cut up in 2021 and their divorce was finalized one 12 months later.)
“I really feel so dangerous for him. I don’t even assume he feels dangerous for himself. I don’t even know if he is aware of how. I simply really feel so dangerous. He’ll most likely go off on me [if I reach out],” Kardashian mentioned in a July 2023 episode of her eponymous Hulu docuseries. “However then I really feel responsible that I posted one thing in help of the Jewish neighborhood after which folks dropped him at the moment and I’m like, ‘Is that my fault, that I posted that? Did that push them and I ought to I’ve simply stored quiet however I’m vocal about all the things else?’ I by no means know what to do.”
She added on the time, “The entire state of affairs is unhappy and I don’t know the right way to emotionally handle it. I’m conflicted as a result of I don’t ever need [to] leap in and be a part of a downfall of the daddy of my children.”
Kardashian and West have continued to coparent children North, 10, Saint, 8, Chicago, 6, and Psalm, 4, since their divorce. West additionally moved on, marrying Bianca Censori in December 2022.
