Geoff Barrow Accuses Lil Pump of Sampling Him Without Permission for “Deeply Fucking Sexist Song”
BEAK>’s Geoff Barrow has accused Lil Pump of sampling his music without permission. Barrow tweeted today, “Who is Lil Pump? He’s used mine and [Ben Salisbury]’s Annihilation score in his deeply fucking sexist song [“Racks on Racks”]. Just so you know we didn’t give clearance.” (Salisbury retweeted Barrow’s tweet.) Barrow added, “As 2 fathers of daughters this shit needs to seriously fuck off.” Find Barrow’s tweets below.
In a statement to Pitchfork, Barrow confirmed that Pump sampled “The Alien” from the Annihilation (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) LP. Barrow said:
“We don’t expect any royalties and copyright infringement is not our issue. We want people to know that in no way have we granted the use of our music to be used on a track that is So terribly degrading to young woman. As fathers & firm supporters of the Me too movement We are amazed how tracks like this are not called out by the media for this reason. I know people will try and Call us out as old fuckers and the music ain’t for us and they would be right but misogamy is still Bullshit what ever age you are.”
Back in 2014, Barrow clashed with the Weeknd over what he implied was a re-creation of Portishead’s “Machine Gun,” used on the Weeknd’s “Belong to the World.” Pitchfork has contacted representatives for Ben Salisbury, Lil Pump, and “Racks on Racks” producer Diablo.
