This is the third time The Boy has been sued for his hit songs.
Drake is being sued over the songs "In My Feelings" and "Nice for What" for the second time.
Drake has been accused with a new batch of charges relating to his big hits "In My Feelings" and "Nice For What." After failing twice in the same copyright action, the accuser is hoping for a third time lucky.
The "bounce" sound of those two Drake songs, according to New Orleans musician Samuel Nicholas, is "exactly copied" from his 2000 single "Roll Call (Instrumental)." Nicholas' previous two lawsuits had been dismissed due to his failure to truly litigate.
Nicholas claims that his song was sampled by Drake's producer BlaqNmilD, also known as Adam J. Pigott. Both Pigott and Nicholas sampled the same track, an earlier song by Queens hip hop band The Showboys, which creates "the auditory DNA of bounce music," according to Pigott's representatives to Billboard. "It is this tune, 'Drag Rap (Triggerman),' that Adam had indeed sampled for the compositions in question," stated Craig E. Baylis, BlaqNmilD's manager. Adam made certain that the Showboys were contacted for the necessary approvals, as the Showboys will attest. "Has the plaintiff done the same?" we wonder.
Both "In My Feelings" and "Nice For What" were featured on Drake's fifth studio album Scorpion, which was released in 2018.
