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"Kanye West is being sued by a record label for what it claims are the &amp;#039;illegal&amp;#039; use of samples on his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Two tracks on the album - &amp;#039;Who Will Survive In America?&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Lost in the World&amp;#039; - feature a sample from &amp;#039;Hook and Sling, Part 1&amp;#039; by New Orleans pianist Eddie Bo.  Billboard reports that Bo&amp;#039;s label TufAmerica has filed a complaint in federal court in Manhattan over the use of the samples. They claim that West&amp;#039;s label Roc-A-Fella and parent company Universal Music Group paid a license fee of $62,500 (\u00C2\u00A338,670) for rights to use a portion of the song, but &amp;quot;failed and refused&amp;quot; to confirm licence agreements that accounted for other uses of the sample, including in the &amp;#039;Lost in the World&amp;#039; video and the promo that accompanied &amp;#039;Runaway&amp;#039;. TufAmerica is now seeking an undisclosed amount of damages for copyright infringement. The label made headlines in May for suing the Beastie Boys for a similar copyright claim, just one day before founding Beastie Boy Adam Yauch died of cancer. Kanye West and Jay-Z were sued last year for copyright infringement over the illegal use of a sample on the Watch the Throne album. The case was later settled out of court. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was a huge critical and commercial success for West. It was named as &amp;#039;Best Album&amp;#039; in numerous 2010 end-of-year polls, spent 32 weeks on the Billboard 200 and sold over 1m copies in the US alone. Watch the video for Kanye West&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Runaway&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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