Juice Wrld's most-streamed song "Lucid Dreams" is back in the press and not because of its career-highlighting success this time.
The Chicago-born artist is being sued for USD 15 million by punk-rock band Yellowcard, according to XXL Magazine, for copyright infringement. The group claims that "Lucid Dreams" sounds a little too close to their 2006 hit "Holly Wood Died" and that he illegally sampled certain elements.
A complaint was filed on October 21 under the United States District Court of California. Yellowcard made a statement requesting that they should be awarded damages from Juice Wrld's tours and public appearances because of his massive mainstream success giving him "substantial opportunities to tour and perform around the world."
The suit also states that Juice and his producers were aware that they copied "Holly Wood Died" because it "directly misappropriates quantitative and qualitatively important portions of ['Holly Wood Died'] in a manner that is easily recognizable to the ordinary observer."
He has not spoken out publicly in response to the lawsuit.
Source: IPR Daily
