Eighties pop star Thomas Dolby is suing Kevin Federline because the aspiring rap star sampled Dolby track 'She Blinded Me With Science' for one of his own songs entitled 'America's Most Hated'.
Dolby said: "You can't just take a very well-known piece of music and add your own vitriolic rap over the top of it and get away with it. If anybody's going to sing nasty lyrics over my music, it's going to be me."
He added that he would have been happy to consider allowing Mr Britney Spears to use the sample, but not after hearing the song: "I wouldn't have turned it down because of who he is. I knew nothing about him, quite frankly, and just because he gets a bad rap in the press doesn't make him a bad guy. But just on the merits of the song, I would have said no. The lyrics are pretty evil, and I just don't think it was appropriate."