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Portishead’s Geoff Barrow Peeved at Ye For Unauthorized Sample on Vultures 2′ Track: ‘Not Again’

Portishead's Geoff Barrow called out Ye for what he suggested was an unauthorized sample of his band's 'Machine Gun' on a 'Vultures 2' track.

After a series of release dates that came and went, Ye(formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla Sign’s Vultures 2 album finally dropped on Saturday. In a tweet from producer/DJ Geoff Barrow, the Portishead member wrote “FFS [for f–ks sake] Not Again [shrug emoji],” along with a screen shot of the Vultures 2 track “Field Trip.” The song seems to very prominently sample the instantly recognizable drum pattern from the 2008 Portishead track “Machine Gun,” though at press time neither Spotify nor Apple Music listed any production or sample credits for the song also featuring Don Toliver, Kodak Black and Playboi Carti and attributed to the rap duo’s joint name, ¥$. In addition, after Ozzy Osbourne denied West’s request to sample one of his songs on Vultures 1 — a solo Ozzy version of the Black Sabbath song “War Pigs” recorded at the 1983 US Festival — the metal icon lashed out at Ye in February after the sample turned up during a listening party at Chicago’s United Center for the serially delayed first Vultures album.

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