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Roddy Ricch Beats Copyright Lawsuit Claiming His No. 1 Hit ‘The Box’ Stole From 1970s Soul Track

Roddy Ricch beat a copyright lawsuit over "The Box" that claimed he stole key elements of the chart-topping 2019 hit from a decades-old soul song.

“Comparative analysis of the beat, lyrics, hook, rhythmic structure, metrical placement, and narrative context by a musicology expert demonstrates clearly and convincingly that ‘The Box’ is an unauthorized duplication and infringement of certain elements of ‘Come On Down,'” the suit read. “Come On Down” is a popular sample in hip-hop — featured in both Young Jeezy ’s 2008 “Wordplay” and Yo Gotti ’s 2016 “I Remember.” Perry’s lawyers said both of those songs had been fully cleared and licensed by giving him a songwriting credit and an ownership stake. She said that the central alleged similarity — a so-called “ascending minor scale played by violin” that Perry claimed was repeated 24 times in Ricch’s song — was “expressed differently” in the two works.

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