Future, Metro, Kendrick Sued
Rodney O Says He’s Owed ‘Like That’ Royalties
And Barry White Property Is Mendacity
Revealed
TMZ.com
Kendrick Lamar‘s verse on Future and Metro Boomin‘s “Like That” document will ceaselessly go down in infamy for its photographs aimed toward Drake and J. Cole — however the man behind one of many samples within the monitor, Rodney O, says it pains him to even hear it as a result of he hasn’t been getting paid his royalties!!!
Rodney says he doesn’t actually have a lot beef with Kendrick, Metro or Future, however blames Epic Data and the Property of Barry White for his lack of royalties.
TMZ Hip Hop obtained authorized docs filed by the “Eternal Bass” rapper on Wednesday and spoke to him about his previous yr since Okay. Dot and the boys went tremendous viral at Drake’s expense.
He says Epic reached out to barter a deal, however claims their reps by no means received full clearance to launch the model of “Like That” that may blow up worldwide.
The music wound up being a well-liked diss monitor, and Rodney says they didn’t even give him the courtesy to see if he had a relationship with Drake earlier than pushing the pink button.
So as to add insult to damage, Rodney says they snubbed him out of his writing credit when the monitor was nominated for a Grammy final yr.
Right here’s the place the state of affairs will get dicey — we spoke to a rep for Metro Boomin, they usually inform us the superproducer did get the required clearances for the pattern, and even paid $50K to get signoff on the pattern for Rodney’s music … and he says it’s not the first time he’s carried out so, both!!!
Metro’s rep says Rodney’s actual beef is with Barry White’s property, who he believes is perhaps the one holding up the royalties … not him, Future, and even Epic!!!
Rodney claims he has no concept the place White’s property will get off … in accordance with the go well with, Kanye West‘s unsanctioned “Like That” remix is the one place the Barry pattern happens.
We reached out to Barry White’s property and Epic Data to see the place they stand … up to now, no phrase again.
