Kanye West is named in lawsuit from Texas pastor for alleged use of his sermon on track Come To Life

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Kanye 'Ye' West has been named by a Texas pastor in a lawsuit over his song Come To Life from the album Donda.Bishop David Paul Moten said that the 44-year-old rapper unauthorizedly used a 70-second sample of a sermon he gave, TMZ reported Tuesday after reviewing legal docs in the case.In court docs, Moten said that his voice and sermon are used continually throughout the song from the intro to the conclusion, composing more than 20 percent of the track.

The latest:Kanye 'Ye' West, 44, has been named by a Texas pastor in a lawsuit over his song Come To Life from his album Donda.

The rapper was snapped in Miami in MarchMoten also named UMG Recordings, Def Jam Recordings and G.O.O.D Music in the suit.Moten said that use of his material in the song is the most recent instance of the Grammy-winning singer and the related businesses 'willfully and egregiously sampling sound recordings of others without consent or permission.' The filing comes after Universal Music Group in March was named in a suit filed in U.K.

High Court over West's 2010 song Power, which included samples from the 1969 song 21st Century Schizoid Man from the band King Crimson, according to Variety.The company that owns the rights to the sampled song, Declan Colgan Music Ltd (DCM), said in legal docs that UMG had not been paying its fair share on royalties from streams of West's track, which was featured on his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.