Juice WRLD is considered an emo rapper, but did his biggest hit "Lucid Dreams" straight up copy a pop punk song? Yellowcard seems to think so. As Rolling Stone reports, the Florida pop punkers are hitting Juice WRLD with a $15 million copyright infringement lawsuit, claiming he copied their 2006 track "Holly Wood Died."
The suit declares producers knowingly took from their song and "Lucid Dreams" "âdirectly misappropriates quantitative and qualitatively important portions of [âHolly Wood Diedâ] in a manner that is easily recognizable to the ordinary observer.â It adds that âLucid Dreamsâ is ânot only substantially similar to [âHolly Wood Diedâ], but in some places virtually identical.â
As Rolling Stone states, "along with Juice WRLD (real name Jarad A. Higgins), the suit names as co-defendants âLucid Dreamsâ co-writer Taz Taylor (real name Danny Lee Snodgress, Jr.) and producer Nick Mira, along with their respective publishing entities. BMG Rights Management, the songâs publisher, was also named, along with Juice WRLDâs record label, Grade A, and its parent company, Interscope."
âThis was not a lawsuit the guys wanted to file. They put all of the parties on notice to try to resolve it. That notice was pretty much ignored leaving them with no real choice," Yellowcard's lawyer Richard Busch said in a statement. "As alleged in the complaint, this is not just a generic emo rap song, but is a blatant copy of significant original compositional elements of âHolly Wood Diedâ in several respects.â
Listen to "Lucid Dreams" and "Holly Wood Died" below.
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