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TikTok Viral Hit ‘Hell N Back’ Faces Lawsuit Over Sampling Dispute: ‘False Claim of Ownership’
Bakar and his viral hit “Hell N Back” – a track featured in millions of TikTok videos – are facing a sampling lawsuit over a decades-old R&B song.
British singer-songwriter Bakar and his viral hit “Hell N Back” – a track featured in millions of TikTok videos – are facing a messy new lawsuit over its prominent sample of a decades-old R&B song. In a case filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Tuff City Records says Bakar and Sony Music infringed the copyrights to Robert Parker ’s 1967 track “I Caught You In A Lie” by heavily sampling from it in “Hell N Back.” The appearance of “I Caught You In A Lie” in “Hell N Back” has long been public knowledge via Genius and other online databases, and Tuff City’s lawsuit repeatedly alludes to attempts to clear the sample.
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