Lil Peep and XXXTentacion sued over 'Falling Down.'
straight-up jacked another artist's original guitar riff for their hugely successful collab,"Falling Down" ... so claims the artist in a new lawsuit.-- who used to go by the stage name K.R.i.O. -- is suing the late rappers claiming the guitar riff in his June 2018 Soundcloud track"Under My Breath" was sampled in Peep and XXX's track that dropped just 3 months later without his permission.
Specifically, Hoff claims his guitar riff in"Falling Down" is looped, sped up, filtered and equalized. He says that while Peep and XXX altered the riff, it remained substantially similar to the guitar part in""Falling Down" quickly gained commercial success ... with over 20m plays on Spotify and over 21m views on YouTube. The single also hit No. 13 on Billboard's Hot 100.
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