The complaint alleges that Yung Gravy and his collaborators “flagrantly impersonated” Astley’s voice.
Rick Astley is suing Yung Gravy, accusing the rapper of impersonating his voice on the song “Betty .”
The complaint alleges that Yung Gravy, whose real name is Matthew Raymond Hauri, and his collaborators “flagrantly impersonated” Astley’s voice and “falsely stated" that Astley endorsed the project. “I always thought that sample would be sick to do something with. I just never figured it was clearable,” he said. “Somebody who had part-ownership of the rights to the sample hit me up like, ‘We f–k with you, you should try it out.’""My boy Nick, who does a lot of sample replays and recreating original samples, we basically remade the whole song," the rapper said."Had a different singer and instruments, but it was all really close because it makes it easier legally.
In the August interview, Yung Gravy said that he first heard the song when he was in middle school and that he genuinely enjoys the song.
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