Music rapper Kanye West has been slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit for sampling lyrics for hit .'Gold Digger'According to AllHipHop.com West is being sued by David Pryor's children Trena Steward and Lorenzo Pryor for lyrics the rapper used on his 2005 hit ‘Gold Digger’, taken from the their father’s 1974 song 'Bumpin' Bus Stop', which he performed with ‘Thunder & Lightening’.
Steward and Pryor are reportedly seeking $150 million in damages per infringement, as they own the copyright for the song. They claim the rapper used their father’s voice to echoe ‘get down’ during West’s ‘Get down girl, get down’ lyric.
In the court documents filed last week, the siblings state that West along with Roc-A-Fella Records, The Island and Def Jam Music Group were involved “in the repeated wilful infringement of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted music on a massive scale by sampling Plaintiffs’ copyrighted music” The Inquisitr reports.
West, 35, is expecting his first child with reality TV star Kim Kardashian. The rapper shocked thousands of fans during a concert in Atlantic City in December last year when he introduced Kardashian as his 'baby mama'.
Kardashian, 32, took to her blog on New Year’s Eve
to confirm the news saying: "It's true!! Kanye (West) and I are
expecting a baby.”
“We feel so blessed and lucky and wish that in
addition to both of our families, his mom and my dad could be here to
celebrate this special time with us,” she wrote.
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