{"id":7669,"date":"2025-09-05T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/kanye-west-faces-donda-2-sample-lawsuit-over-lord-lift-me-up-song\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:02:13","slug":"kanye-west-faces-donda-2-sample-lawsuit-over-lord-lift-me-up-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/kanye-west-faces-donda-2-sample-lawsuit-over-lord-lift-me-up-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Faces ‘Donda 2’ Sample Lawsuit Over \u2018LORD LIFT ME UP\u2019 Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tY<\/span>e (formerly Kanye West) has been sued for allegedly sampling a 1975 soul song without permission on his 2022 album Donda 2<\/em>, marking the latest in a long line of similar copyright lawsuits against the controversial rapper.<\/p>\n

\n\tA legal complaint filed Thursday (Sept. 4) in federal court claims the Donda 2 <\/em>track \u201cLORD LIFT ME UP\u201d includes a blatant sample of the song \u201cJust Out of My Reach\u201d by soul artist Sam Dees. The lawsuit is brought by an entity called The GRC Trust on behalf of Ginn Music Group, an Atlanta-based catalog company that owns Dees\u2019 publishing.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cAt no point\u2026did defendants obtain authorization from GRC to use the composition in connection with the infringing work,\u201d reads the complaint. \u201cDefendants continue to exploit and receive monies from the infringing work, respectively, in violation of GRC\u2019s rights in his composition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit brings copyright infringement claims against Ye, his company Yeezy LLC and the rapper Vory (Tavoris Javon Hollins), who is featured on \u201cLORD LIFT ME UP.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso named in the complaint are London-based tech firm Kano Computing and its founder, Alex Klein<\/strong>. Kano partnered with Ye to release the rapper\u2019s branded Stem Player device, which was the only way to listen to Donda 2 <\/em>when the album was first released in February 2022 (Ye released the LP on streaming for the first time just this year).<\/p>\n

\n\tGRC is asking for a judge to enter a legal injunction against Ye and award the publishing company \u201call profits of defendants \u2026 plus all losses of GRC, plus any other monetary advantage gained by the defendants through their infringement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReps for Ye, Vory and Kano did not immediately return requests for comment on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tYe has been sued repeatedly over the course of his career for supposedly using uncleared samples. Such lawsuits have been brought over the years by everyone from the estate of Donna Summer to a pastor whose sermon was allegedly sampled on the first Donda <\/em>LP.<\/p>\n

\n\tThursday\u2019s lawsuit is the second to claim infringement on the Donda 2<\/em> album. The first \u2014 brought by publisher Ultra International over an alleged sample of the 1986 Marshall Jefferson house track \u201cMove Your Body\u201d on the song \u201cFlowers\u201d \u2014 was confidentially settled in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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