Lil Nas X is being sued for $25 million over stealing a Bobby Caldwell song, TMZ reports.
The rapper and Sony are being sued by a company called The Music Force for jacking the Caldwell’s 1982 track “Carry On.” According to the lawsuit, X posted a track on YouTube, Spotify and SoundCloud that appropriated parts of “Carry On” without permission, and it had nearly four million YouTube views as of early July.
Music Force alleges X was “motivated by greed and malicious intent,” and are also suing Sony due to signing the rapper to a record deal without clearing the song. The company says that X destroyed the value of the original Caldwell song by jacking it.
For those who recognize the beat but haven’t heard it before, Madlib sampled it for MED’s “Can’t Hold On.”
OS REWIND: Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (Remix) (feat. Young Thug & Mason Ramsey)
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