German singer Alice Merton — as well as two German corporations — filed a lawsuit against Kanye West for "unauthorized commercial exploitation of the musical composition 'Blindside.'"

Kanye West has been sued by singer-songwriter Alice Merton, who claims that the rapper sampled her song after she denied his request to do so based on his antisemitic and racist remarks. In the suit,

Singer Alice Merton said she denied West’s request to sample her song because of his history of “anti-semitic, racist remarks.”