Yup. You read right. will.i.am uploaded a “new” song on his VEVO yesterday titled, “Let’s Go” which features Chris Brown. After it was officially released, it garnered attention from several music outlets, praising will.i.am for his “good work”. One even went on to say:
will.i.am has crafted hits with Britney Spears and Justin Bieber. Now the leader of the Black Eyed Peas pumps up the volume with Chris Brown on “Let’s Go”, one of the many collaborations off his solo album, “#willpower”, due April 23.
Breezy encourages listeners to “get crazy,” while will raps over the electro-dance beat that will have you pumping your fist.
What? It’ll be featured off his solo album? Sure thing, go right ahead. Except, correct us if we’re wrong but shouldn’t solo albums especially highlight your own work? If an artiste were to sample an “electro-dance beat”, shouldn’t it be cleared by the original producer/DJ/artiste or at least the label in which owns the rights to the said sample?
Case at hand:
Familiar “electro-dance beat”, huh?
It appears that will.i.am have conveniently stolen from two of the world’s Top 100 DJs, Mat Zo and Arty. The original track from which will.i.am nicked a sample from is called, “Rebound“, released in 2011 under DJ/producer trio Above & Beyond‘s Anjunabeats label. Apparently, Mat Zo and Arty were never informed of “Let’s Go”, neither did they allow will.i.am to use their work nor was it ever cleared with Anjunabeats.
Arty took it to Twitter to describe his disbelief late yesterday saying:
Uh oh. We smell a lawsuit ahead. What’s will.i.am going to say now?
Shame on you, will.i.am.