Posted Tuesday August 26th, 2014 Share This Article. The duo just came out with “Blame Game”, one of the countless “Good Friday” … Although James insists he was “really helpful” following West’s enquiries, offering to send a polished version of the Avril 14th sample, “re-played” at a different speed, the MC’s camp was reportedly nothing but rude. Aphex Twin has accused Kanye West of trying to plagiarise one of his songs for use on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Please enable Cookies and reload the page. On Kanye sampling Drukqs’ “Avril 14th” on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s “Blame Game”: “Is it a sample? Follow @genius Kanye Wests Song "Blame Game" soll angeblich nichts anderes als ein Plagiat eines Aphex-Twin-Tracks sein. The rapper and his … Looks like the site is more popular than we thought! Used on West’s Blame Game, the sample is un-missable: a looped piano figure under West and John Legend’s verses. Here's Ken Lewis talking about this sample: "They had me do a recreation of the piano from"Avril The 14th" by Aphex Twin for the song "Blame Game", but i dont think they used it … Facebook; Twitter; Instagram; SoundCloud; Youtube "http":"https";t.getElementById(r)||(n=t.createElement(e),n.id=r,n.src=i+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js",s.parentNode.insertBefore(n,s))}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); / Let's play the blame game, I love you more / Let's play the blame game for sure / Let's call out names, names, I hate you more / Let's call out names, names for sure [Produced by DJ Frank E, Kanye West, Mike Dean, Aphex Twin] [Intro] Whose fault? Elsewhere in Pitchfork’s Aphex Twin interview, James said that he has “thousands” of unreleased records like Caustic Window, and the upcoming Syro is only the “most accessible” of his long-gestating studio LPs. Your browser will redirect to your requested content shortly. I praised Andy Samberg for sampling “Avril 14th” by Aphex Twin in his Digital Short “Iran So Far” a while back, but I think Kanye and John Legend might’ve just trumped him. I know that he tried to fucking rip me off and claim that he'd written it, and they tried to get away with not paying. The song features recording artist John Legend and was produced by West, Justin Franks, and Mike Dean.The song features a hip hop skit provided by comedian Chris Rock.It contains a sample of "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin. Blame Game Lyrics: Whose fault? !function(t,e,r){var n,s=t.getElementsByTagName(e)[0],i=/^http:/.test(t.location)? With SYRO due out Sept. 23 via Warp, James has completed a … //]]>. [Chorus] Let's play the blame game, I love you more Let's play the blame game for sure Aphex Twin has accused Kanye West of trying to plagiarise one of his songs for use on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I actually don't know what it ended up being in the end, I'm so slack. [Produced by DJ Frank E, Kanye West, Mike Dean, Aphex Twin] [Intro] Whose fault? We're going to send you on your way in just a sec. Richard D. James -- aka Aphex Twin -- is primed to release his first proper album in 13 years. The liner notes for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy do however state that Blame Game “contains elements of Avril 14 by Richard James”, so there is an acknowledgement and therefore a possibility that West did comply and compensate James. The rapper and his reps allegedly “tried to get away with not paying” for Aphex’s track Avril 14th, which forms the musical backbone of West’s song Blame Game. “[Kanye] tried to fucking rip me off and claim that he’d written it, and they tried to get away with not paying,” Aphex Twin’s Richard D James claimed in a new interview with Pitchfork. Richard D. James -- aka Aphex Twin -- is primed to release his first proper album in 13 years. Aphex Twin Speaks on His New Album, Being Sampled by Kanye, More. In some instances, West has prevailed in these lawsuits - such as in the case of Peters, while Syl Johnson’s case was settled out of court. This process is automatic. [Chorus] Let's play the blame game, I love you more Let's play the blame game for sure [CDATA[ By Philip Sherburn e. August 25, 2014. In a separate talk with Fader, James promised that the new full-length will not be his last: he is apparently “kicked into gear” for new releases. Listen to both Avril 14th and Blame Game below. //