Like the rest of Donda 2, “Flowers” was released in late February exclusively on Stem Player, an MP3 device created specifically for the album in collaboration with Alex Klein and his company, Kano Computing Limited. Klein and Kano are also named as defendants in UIMP’s lawsuit, which points to a claim Kanye made in February that he’d earned $2.2 million from the record’s unorthodox release in a single day.
In their complaint, UIMP’s attorneys point to the gulf between Ye’s self-proclaimed commitment to the fair treatment of artists and his alleged infringement on Jefferson’s intellectual property. “Manifesting the height of hypocrisy, West advocates for artists’ rights with one hand, yet has no shame in taking away rights from another artist with the other,” they write.
“I’ve been sampled thousands of times,” Jefferson said in a statement that was sent to The FADER by a representative of his management. “There is a right way and a wrong way to go about it. Getting done by another artist, a BLACK artist, a fellow Chicagoan without acknowledgment is disappointing.”
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