Kendrick Lamar is being sued for his Rihanna-assisted hit, "Loyalty," for copyright infringement.

When you think of a hit song, you most likely immediately associate information technology with the artist who recorded information technology. However, there are often many easily that a runway must pass through before becoming a finished product. Writers and producers all play a role in crafting a hit record, and everyone shares the responsibility of following sure legal and ethical standards when creating new work.

According to a lawsuit recently filed against Kendrick Lamar's label, Top Dawg Amusement, those standards were non met when it comes to the song "Loyalty" featuring Rihanna from his 2022 anthology DAMN. Producers Terrace Martin and Josef Leimberg are as well named equally defendants in the case.

According to Music Business Worldwide, court documents filed past musician Terrance Hayes claim that the Lamar song used a recording of a Hayes track, also titled "Loyalty". According to the suit, Terrace Martin allegedly had admission to the track through his erstwhile collaborator, Josef Leimberg. Leimberg is not listed as a correspondent in the credits of Kendrick's "Loyalty", merely he does accept a history of working with Martin and on K. Dot tracks. According to Hayes, his 2011 recording of his original version of "Loyalty" was stored on Leimberg's calculator and accessed without his permission to build the instrumentation for Kendrick's song.

The suit alleges, "Martin and Doe Defendants copied the entire composition, including title, melody, harmony, and rhythm from the Subject Rails into the Infringing Song, and slowed it down through a synthesizer and combined it with another sample to disguise the copying." Hayes and his legal team are pursuing compensation for this alleged belongings theft, including all profits from Kendrick Lamar's "Loyalty," as well as "whatever other monetary advantage gained by the Defendants through their infringement." A specific amount has not been stated then far, and Kendrick and his team take yet to annotate on the accusations.