Kanye West sued over Donda sample

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Kanye West has been sued over an allegedly uncleared sample on ‘Life Of The Party’, a track that featured on the deluxe edition of his ‘Donda’ album.A company called Phase One Network says that ‘Life Of The Party’ features a sample from a Boogie Down Productions track that it controls, that being ‘South Bronx’ from the KRS-One-led outfit’s 1987 album ‘Criminal Minded’.This particular ‘Donda’ track has already been on quite the adventure.

Although it was previewed at those pre-release listening parties that West staged for the album in summer 2021, it didn’t appear on the original track listing when ‘Donda’ was finally released at the end of August that year.It transpired that it had been cut from the record at the request of guest artist Andre 3000.

The verse he’d contributed was quite sweary, but then West decided he wanted a swear free album, and Andre 3000 didn’t feel his verse would work with the swearing edited out.The track also featured a Drake-dissing verse by West, he and Drake being in the middle of a particularly tedious feud at the time.

Drake then got hold of a copy and played it on his ‘Sound 42’ Sirius XM radio show.And once the song was out there, it was decided to make the track officially available via West’s Stem Player device in October 2021 and then on the deluxe edition of ‘Donda’ the following month.