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Syl Johnson considering litigation over Kan-Z track

By | Published on Thursday 25 August 2011

Syl Johnson

Soul singer Syl Johnson and archive label the Numero Group are threatening legal action against Jay-Z, Kanye West and Universal’s Def Jam label over the use of a sample on Kan-Z’s recent collaborative album ‘Watch The Throne’.

Via a post on the company blog, the Numero Group says that the hip hop duo sampled Johnson song ‘Different Strokes’ on their track ‘The Joy’ without permission. It adds that it had been in talks with Def Jam about West using the sample of his previous album ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, but could not reach an agreement. There had been no talk, the music company adds, of the same sample being used on ‘Watch The Thone”.

The Numero Group’s blog concludes: “Island Def Jam seems to think that Syl doesn’t have any fight left in him. We’re betting otherwise”.

The Universal division is yet to respond.



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