Beyonce And Jay-Z Are Being Sued For “Drunk In Love”

Beyonce and Jay-Z made one of the greatest hits of the year, but now everything is at risk. Apparently “Drunk in Love” isn’t that original as it seems. Hungarian singer Mitsou has filed a lawsuit against Beyonce, Jay-Z and the producers of the song (including Timbaland) because the track allegedly uses Mitsou’s voice for more than a minute throughout the song.
She claims that they sampled and digitally manipulated her performance from a 1995, using her vocals singing the traditional Roma folk song called “Bajba, Bajba Pelem” without any permission given by her.
In the lawsuit that Mitsou filled on Friday in Manhattan civil court, she is seeking unspecified damages and says that no one asked for her permission to use her vocals neither did she ever signed any documents that would permit someone to use her voice for advertisement or trade purposes. She also claims that she didn’t know about her part in the song until friend mentioned it to her. Then the shock came.

Hungarian singer said that Beyonce and Jay-Z don’t deserve all the credit. In fact, according to MTV, Bey and Jay don’t deserve 29 percent of credit, because that’s how long the parts of Mitsou’s singing are in total. She claims that “Drunk in Love” begins with 13 seconds off her a cappella solo. Then her voice continues to sing as Beyonce starts to sing. That goes up until 41 second mark. After that, her vocals reappear while Jay-Z raps from 3:14 until 4:05, for a total of 51 seconds. Sample of her song recorded with her folk band Ando Drom has been a featured more than 1.5 minutes in 5.5 minutes long tune. Among other things, suit says following: