GloRilla is being sued over an allegedly uncleared sample that appears on her 2022 track 'Tomorrow', and also the remix of said track 'Tomorrow 2', which features Cardi B.
The lawsuit was filed last week by Ivory Paynes, a member of rap group Dog House Posse. He reckons 'Tomorrow' samples his 1994 track 'Street Of Westbank', which was on the album 'Dope Gets No Heavier', and which was pushed onto the streaming services in 2017.
"Defendants used unauthorised samples of 'Street Of Westbank' in their sound recordings 'Tomorrow' and 'Tomorrow 2'", Payne's lawsuit alleges.
"The plaintiff did not authorise the defendants’ reproduction, distribution, public performance of the sound recording", it adds, "or creation of an unauthorised derivative work of 'Tomorrow' and 'Tomorrow 2'".
Expanding on those allegations further, the legal filing continues: "The infringing works, 'Tomorrow' and 'Tomorrow 2', misappropriate key protected elements of 'Street Of Westbank', including without limitation its musical arrangements, percussion tracks, synthesised orchestration, including but not limited to piano, cello, violin, contrabass, and drum set, and tone and melody".
"Moreover", it reckons, "'Tomorrow' and 'Tomorrow 2' mimic and copy the arrangement of 'Street Of Westbank' by the choice of the instrumentation accompanying the rap lyrics, the choice of when the instruments drop out and reenter and what instruments drop in and re-enter".
GloRilla has yet to respond to the lawsuit. She is being sued alongside her producer Macaroni Toni, with her label Collective Music Group and its distributor Universal Music, plus a bunch of music publishers, also named as defendants.