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Syl Johnson’s daughter comments on Watch The Throne lawsuit
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 26 October 2011
Syleena Johnson, daughter of Syl, has commented on her father’s lawsuit against Jay-Z and Kanye West in an interview with Sirius XM presenter Sway Colloway.
As previously reported, Johnson Senior recently sued the two rappers claiming that a sample of his song ‘Different Strokes’, which features on ‘The Joy’ from the pair’s ‘Watch The Throne’ album, was not cleared for use. Earlier this year Johnson’s label, the Numero Group, said in a blog post that it had been in negotiations to clear the sample for use on a track on West’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ album, but that no agreement had been reached, and no talks had ever taken place regarding ‘Watch The Throne’.
Speaking on Sirius XM, Syleena Johnson said that her father has no issue with either Jay-Z or Kanye West personally, and that they are only named in his lawsuit because they have to be – it being their album at the heart of the dispute. But he actually holds their labels Def Jam, Universal Music and Roc-A-Fella Records accountable. She added that “he just wants his money”.
