Kanye West Sampled My Sermon On His Record Without My Permission – Bishop David Paul Moten

Popular rapper, Kanye West is reportedly being sued by a US pastor over a piece of sampled audio used in a track on his latest album, Donda.

TMZ recently revealed this in a new trending report, and the world has been reacting.

According to the outlet, Texas court documents showed that Bishop David Paul Moten said parts of the sermon were used for 70 seconds in total on the track, Come To Life, and it was done without his permission.

Bishop Paul added that the snippet amounts to more than 20% of the just over five-minute track, and he’ll be suing UMG Recordings, Def Jam Recordings and G.O.O.D Music over the song.

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Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, entrepreneur and fashion designer. His music draws from a range of genres, including hip hop, soul, baroque pop, electro, indie rock, synth-pop, industrial and gospel.

After his parents divorced when he was three years old, he moved with his mother to Chicago, Illinois.

His father, Ray West, is a former Black Panther and was one of the first black photojournalists at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ray West was later a Christian counselor, and in 2006, opened the Good Water Store and Café in Lexington Park, Maryland with startup capital from his son.

West’s mother, Dr. Donda C. (Williams) West, was a professor of English at Clark Atlanta University, and the Chair of the English Department at Chicago State University, before retiring to serve as his manager. West was raised in a middle-class background, attending Polaris High School in suburban Oak Lawn, Illinois, after living in Chicago.