Kanye Sued Over Good Life

From Nahright.com

Kanye is being sued by the guy whose song he sampled for Good Life. TMZ has the court documents.

In a rambling lawsuit filed in Maryland District Court, Dayna Staggs (aka D’Mystro) is suing Kanye — and his record label, Roc-a-Fella — for copyright infringement. Staggs says that West "didn’t obtain a license to use ‘Volume of Good Life’" for his tune, and points out that Kanye was "only at the age of 6 or 7 years of age [sic]" when his song was written.

I find it hard to believe that neither Kanye or Def Jam did their due diligence in clearing the sample for one of the album’s biggest singles. Because I mean, Def Jam is a division of Universal and we all know how highly they value intellectual property rights.

I should also note that the plaintiff, Dayna Staggs (a.k.a DMystro) whines in the lawsuit about Kanye’s song containing "vulgar and offensive" images that could in turn "harm his reputation." That’s funny, because not only does he have Kanye listed as one of his top friends on his Myspace page, but in the "About DMystro" section he brags that in 2002 he joined "Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, Dame Dash, Freeway, Roc Family, Pharrel & Chad of the Neptunes/Nerds.." on the Sprite Liquid Mixer Tour. So, he didn’t seem to have a problem with Jay, Bleek or Freeway’s lyrics back then, but now the relatively tame Good Life is damaging his rep?

(By the way, I jacked that screengrab up there from nerdwithswag because Universal has made it impossible to watch the Good Life video anywhere on the internet.)

Edit: Pardon me, as DJ Daddy Mack pointed out in the comments, Universal has had the video removed from every site on the net with the exception of…DMystro’s Myspace page!
Spotted At Nahright.com