A producer from Maryland filed a lawsuit, claiming that Kanye West has sampled his song 'Volume of Good Life' which is much cleaner than West's 'Good Life'.
- Mar 27, 2008
AceShowbiz - Like many artists who made themselves successful worldwide, Kanye West is also taking in some impacts from it. The rapper is being sued by a Maryland producer named Dayna Staggs aka D'Mystro who claimed that West sampled his song "Volume of Good Life" for West's "Graduation" single "Good Life".
Staggs provided the paper evidence along with the lawsuit that was brought up on March 20, enclosing the music sheet for comparison between the two songs. Staggs, in the court papers stated that his "Volume of Good Life" was copyrighted in the '80s and was released under Pallas Records internationally soon after that. Furthermore, Staggs also claimed that he brought up the case in November 2007 by sending cease and desist letters to BMI, the company that represents Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam where West released his album under, but received no favorable reply.
West's version of "Good Life" that won him a Grammy earlier this year, is also deemed "vulgar and offensive" up to the point that it potentially "harms the reputation" of the much cleaner "Volume of Good Life".
Staggs is now demanding an 85 per cent royalties from worldwide sales of "Good Life". No representative of West or any of the defendants named in the lawsuit has commented on this.
