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With claims of uncleared samples back in the news, Billboard <\/em>dug up every case that’s been filed against the controversial rapper. Spoiler alert: It’s a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tKanye West attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tEveryone in the music industry knows that Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) has been sued repeatedly over allegations that he sampled copyrighted music without permission. But how many lawsuits has he actually faced? Billboard <\/em>decided to find out.<\/p>\n

\n\tJust hours after Ye\u2019s brand new Vultures 2 <\/em>dropped on Saturday, he was already facing claims that the new album featured uncleared music. In a social media post<\/a>, electronic music artist Geoff Barrow shared a clip of Ye\u2019s song \u201cField Trip\u201d above the words \u201cnot again\u201d \u2013 seemingly an accusation that the track featured a sample from the song \u201cMachine Gun\u201d by Barrow\u2019s band Portishead.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s currently unclear whether Barrow or anyone else will take legal action against Ye over the new song. But if he did, he would hardly be the first to do so.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the course of his career, federal court records show that the rapper has been sued at least 14 times over claims of unlicensed sampling (the use of a copyrighted sound recording<\/em>) or interpolating (the use of a copyrighted composition<\/em>) in his songs, with nine of those cases coming since 2019 alone. And that\u2019s not counting cases where others have been sued over his songs, like a case filed in 2012 against Roc-A-Fella Records, or a recent case against UMG filed by members of prog rock band King Crimson, nor allegations that didn\u2019t result in a lawsuit, like Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s accusations earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo keep it all straight, Billboard <\/em>dug up the court records from every case against Ye. Here they are:<\/p>\n