Kanye West Sued Over Use of Boogie Down Productions Monitor On ‘Donda’ Album

Kanye West apparently hasn’t finished himself any favors in importing his Andre 3000 collaboration “Life Of The Celebration” on his Stem Participant system … the track is now on the middle of a lawsuit filed by the file firm that owns a well-known observe by KRS-One’s Boogie Down Productions.

In accordance with authorized docs, obtained by TMZ Hip Hop, the corporate says it owns the copyright to BDP’s iconic diss observe “South Bronx” and claims Ye by no means received permission to pattern the track when he launched the “Donda” bonus observe on the Stem Participant.

The corporate says Ye and his associate Alex Klein offered round 11K Stem Gamers throughout the first 24 hours of its launch, raking in round $2.2 million {dollars} … however claims they by no means received permission to make use of the pattern despite the fact that the corporate says Ye’s staff initially reached out to attempt to license it.

The go well with alleges the perimeters by no means got here to an settlement and says Ye’s aspect ultimately retracted its supply to license it.

Nonetheless, the go well with claims Ye & Co. nonetheless closely marketed the observe that used the “South Bronx” pattern to advertise gross sales of “Donda” and the Stem Participant.

The track was initially leaked by Drake forward of their patchwork reunion throughout J Prince’s “Free Larry Hoover” live performance.