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T-Pain: rappers will not work with Frank Ocean because he is gay | T-Pain: rappers will not work with Frank Ocean because he is gay |
(7 months later) | |
“I know niggas that will not do a song with Frank Ocean just because he gay, but they need him on the fucking song and that’s so terrible to me, man... What I do ain’t going to affect nothing that you got going on.” | |
In 2012, Frank Ocean caused a media stir when he posted a statement on Tumblr in which he told the story of falling in love for the first time, with a man. “I don’t know what happens now, and that’s alrite,” he wrote. | |
Watch the full footage from T-Pain’s interview below: | Watch the full footage from T-Pain’s interview below: |
Meanwhile in other news, recording label TufAmerica has alleged that Frank Ocean’s track Super Rich Kids incorporates an unauthorised sample of Mary J Blige’s Real Love. | |
Super Rich Kids features rapper Earl Sweatshirt and appears on Ocean’s acclaimed 2012 album Channel Orange. Vivendi and Universal Music Group, who released the track, have been accused by TufAmerica over the alleged sample of Blige’s 1992 hit, according to The Hollywood Reporter. However, TufAmerica does not claim to own the sample itself – the label owns 3.15% of the copyright to Blige’s original song due to a sample within a sample: Real Love features an extract of the Honeydrippers’ 1973 track Impeach the President, which TufAmerica owns. It’s that 3.15% of royalties that it is attempting to take back from Ocean’s label. | |
“Defendants have failed and refused to secure a license from TufAmerica for its share of the rights to use ‘Real Love’ in ‘Super Rich Kids’,” reads the complaint. | |
The Guardian has attempted to obtain a comment from Universal Music Group about the matter. | The Guardian has attempted to obtain a comment from Universal Music Group about the matter. |
Listen to the following tracks by Frank Ocean, Mary J Blige and Honeydrippers here: | Listen to the following tracks by Frank Ocean, Mary J Blige and Honeydrippers here: |
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