Kanye releases new album, with unauthorized Portishead sample

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Kanye releases new album, with unauthorized Portishead sample

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign have chosen today, Saturday, August 3, to release the second part of their joint album, ‘Vultures’. Already available on Spotify, ‘Vultures 2’ includes 16 tracks.

Notably, track 3 ‘Field Trip’ samples Portishead’s ‘Machine Gun’ again without permission. The Weeknd was unable to license the sample when he used it a few years ago, and Geoff Barrow has hinted that’s the case again with Kanye: “Not again, fuck.”

‘Vultures 1’ has given Kanye his fifth US number 1 single, with ‘Carnival’. Meanwhile, one of his best tracks, ‘Good (Don’t Die)’, has been removed from the tracklist due to its unauthorized use of a Donna Summer sample.

01 Slide
02 Time Moving Slow
03 Field Trip
04 Fried
05 Isabella
06 Promotion
07 Husband
08 Lifestyle
09 Maybe
10 Bomb
11 River
12 530
13 Dead
14 Forever Rolling
15 Sky City
16 My Soul

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