Lil Nas X and Sony have reportedly been slapped with a $25 million lawsuit over and uncleared sample from his 2018 track “Carry On.” The music publisher, The Music Force, has filed for $10 million in damages and an additional $15 million in punitive damages. Claiming that Nas X and his producer were “motivated by greed and malicious intent.” The song the publication is claiming Nas X ripped off is Bobby Caldwell’s 1982 song of the same name.
Although the song came out before Lil Nas X signed with Sony. The Music Force is still including them in the lawsuit due to believing that if Sony had done their due diligence prior to signing the artist then this issue never would have occurred. The lawsuit read. “Sony elected to take no action to stop this illegal, unauthorized infringement as it was far more important to Sony to preserve its opportunity to enjoy millions of dollars of revenues from the success of the career of X.”
So, The Music Force is clearly not happy claiming that Nas X destroyed the value of Caldwell’s song. Which may be a little dramatic. But either way, I’m sure things will work out for the “Old Town Road” rapper. Which, in better news, is one week away from becoming the sole record-holder of a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 spot record in its 61-year history at 17 weeks.
