A singer-songwriter says the rapper knows he needed to pay for a prominent sample, but that he walked away from a nearly-finalized deal to do so.
lawsuit claiming his 2022 song “Blue Chills” features an unlicensed sample from a singer-songwriter – who says the rapper tentatively agreed to pay her for the clip but then never actually did so.
“Despite repeated promises from defendants …. no signed agreement, fees, royalties, licensing agreements or monies have ever been sent to plaintiff,” Gudasz’s lawyers wrote in the lawsuit.Gudasz says she was first contacted in May 2022 by Deborah Mannis-Gardner, a well-known industry exec who has been called the “queen” of sample clearance, about French using “Femme Fatal” in an upcoming song.
Gudasz says the aborted negotiations show that French “knowingly infringed” the earlier song, the lawsuit says, because they show that he was aware that he needed a license but chose to proceed without one. She claims that French even posted comments to Instragram congratulating her, and acknowledge her role in “Blue Chills” on an episode of Apple Music’s Rap Life Radio.
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