Late American singer, Donna Summer’s estate has accused Kanye West of sampling her music without permission.
The controversial rapper is said to have used an unauthorised interpolation of the late singer’s 1977 hit ‘I Feel Love’ on ‘Good (Don’t Die)’, which features on his and Ty Dolla $ign’s newly-released joint album ‘Vultures 1’.
The song features the lyrics “Oh, I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive” seemingly set to the melody of the classic track from the Queen of Disco, who died in 2012 aged 63.
A statement shared to the Instagram Story for Donna’s account said: “Kanye West… asked permission to use Donna Summer’s song I Feel Love, he was denied… he changed the words, had someone re-sing it or used AI but it’s I Feel Love… copyright infringement!!!”
Summer died in 2012 from lung cancer, at her home in Naples, Florida. She sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She won five Grammy Awards.
The statement comes after Kanye was blasted by Ozzy Osbourne, who accused him of sampling Black Sabbath’s War Pigs’ on the album without permission.
Ozzy fumed on X: “.@kanyewest ASKED PERMISSION TO SAMPLE A SECTION OF A 1983 LIVE PERFORMANCE OF “WAR PIG” FROM THE US FESTIVAL WITHOUT VOCALS WAS REFUSED PERMISSION BECAUSE HE IS AN ANTISEMITE AND HAS CAUSED UNTOLD HEARTACHE TO MANY. HE WENT AHEAD AND USED THE SAMPLE ANYWAY AT HIS ALBUM LISTENING PARTY LAST NIGHT. I WANT NO ASSOCIATION WITH THIS MAN! (sic).
His wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne, later added on her own account: “The Osbourne family have never wanted any association with Kanye West. He is an anti-Semitic fool who spews his rhetoric out into the world, Kanye, you [messed] with the wrong dude this time. Sincerely, Sharon Osbourne.”
