Drake Runs Into ‘100 Gigs’ Sample Issues With Jamaican Producer
Drake‘s 100 Gigs EP has been hit with sample clearance issues, leading to the removal of “Blue Green Red” from streaming services.
Drizzy has spent the last few weeks treating fans to various outtakes, unreleased material and behind-the-scenes footage from throughout his career, but has now potentially run into some legal issues.
“Blue Green Red,” which was released on streaming last month after initially being shared on Instagram, allegedly samples dancehall artist Tiger’s 1991 hit “When” with out permission of the musician and its producer Cleveland “Clevie” Browne.
Clevie outlined the problems with the pattern to DancehallMag, saying: “SONY/EMI [his publishers] called on Friday and said they were seeking clearance for ‘When’ but they did not send the song. We can’t clear a song without hearing it.
“But Drake went ahead and leaked it before. The record company blocked Drake’s release and then went ahead and released the song over the weekend without us giving any clearance. Because they did this before the fact, that can mean problems.”
He added: “They used the melody just in a section, and it was repeated twice. So this is a clear infringement.”
“Blue Green Red” has since been faraway from streaming providers, with “Circadian Rhythm” changing it on Drake’s 100 Gigs EP.
Clevie, who’s one-half of the duo Steely & Clevie, is already in a separate copyright battle with the Toronto rapper and numerous different artists over claims that Drizzy’s primary hit “One Dance” stole components from his 1989 track “Fish Market.”
Another current Drake launch, his long-awaited Benny The Butcher collaboration “Buffalo Freestyle,” was additionally lately faraway from streaming providers with out clarification.
The track was launched 4 years after being leaked however was taken the down the identical day it dropped as a part of Benny’s shock three-track EP Buffalo Butch Vol. 1.
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The Griselda rapper beforehand expressed his frustration over the track not being launched throughout a chat with Joe Budden final yr.
“I was pissed, I’m not gonna lie. I was pissed, man,” he admitted. “It’s a fucking Drake record! It was surely my biggest record … And the record’s just sitting in my pocket.”
Benny added: “That’s the biggest artist in the world so I understand his release schedule might be hectic or he might have people that be like, ‘We can’t drop that right now because we doing this.’
“I understand that. He’s the name, but he represents a lot of people that he works with and his moves affect a lot of people, so I understand that part.”
