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'Playas Gon' Play' Songwriters Sue Taylor Swift Over 'Shake It Off'

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'Playas Gon' Play' Songwriters Sue Taylor Swift Over 'Shake It Off'
The songwriters who wrote 3LW's 2001 hit "Playas Gon' Play" are claiming that Taylor Swift ripped them off. TMZ reports that Sean Hall and Nathan Butler are suing Taylor for 20 percent of her 2014 hit "Shake It Off."




After listening up through the first stanza of the first chorus section it doesn't even appear that it is similar enough to be considered a sample much more than a coincidence created by the use of a small set of modern culture's popular Ebonics slang terms.
We'll see how long it takes before race enters the issue as a means to sway opinion and make people choose sides…

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