Kendrick Lamar faces lawsuit for copyright infringement over ‘LOYALTY’
Kendrick Lamar is facing a new lawsuit over copyright infringement relating to his 2017 track ‘LOYALTY’.The complaint comes from producer Terrence Hayes, who says that parts of the production on ‘LOYALTY’ were lifted from his own 2011 song of the same name (via Music Business Worldwide).Also named in the case are Lamar’s producer Terrace Martin, his label and management Top Dawg Entertainment and Josef Leimberg, who worked on the rapper’s 2015 album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’.According to the lawsuit, Hayes states that Martin and he had both collaborated with Leimberg, allowing Martin to have access to the original 2011 version of ‘Loyalty’ and a 2016 remix.