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Kanye West Removes Sample After Ozzy Osbourne Blasts Him as ‘Antisemite’

Ozzy Osbourne has blasted Kanye West for using an unauthorized sample of a Black Sabbath song without permission.

Although event footage hasn’t surfaced of West using “War Pigs” (a song it appears Osbourne didn’t actually play at the Us Festival), the riff to Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man,” which Osbourne did perform at the festival, appears in the unreleased song “Carnival,” without lyrics. “Iron Man” was one of three Black Sabbath songs Osbourne performed at the Us Festival in 1983, which marked a new chapter for the musician since it was his first with guitarist Jake E. Lee playing with him. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak held two Us festivals, one in 1982 and one in 1983; the latter featured a “heavy metal day” with Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Judas Priest, and others in addition to Osbourne, and it attracted hundreds of thousands of fans.

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