Fiona Apple calls out Lil Nas X for sampling her song 'Every Single Night': 'Where's my money, cute little guy?'
Lil Nas X samples Apple's 'Every Single Night' on his track 'Kim Jong'
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Your support makes all the difference.Fiona Apple has called out Lil Nas X for sampling her song “Every Single Night”, asking him where her money has gone.
The tune appears in Lil Nas X’s track “Kim Jong”.
Apple discussed the matter in a video that followed up on an earlier interview, in which she reacted to Jennifer Lopez’s dancing to her song ”Criminal” in the movie Hustlers.
“Lil Nas X, you’re probably really great but you use my song every single night too,” she said in a video published on the fan website Fiona Apple Rocks.
“You sample that song too in a song called ‘Kim Jong Un’, I think. And hey, where’s my money, you cute little guy? Where’s my money?”
Apple previously told Vulture that she routinely gives the rights to “Criminal” to ”any college dancer or So You Think You Can Dance [contestant]” who asks, making the tune her “little help-out-people song”.
As for Hustlers, she added: “It was just about what it was and who was in it. But I didn’t know [Jennifer Lopez] was going to be dancing to it.
“I’ve seen a lot of pieces about how they got [the rights to] “Criminal,” but it’s just funny to me — there’s a disconnect between agents, because I never got a video of the dance. And I want it, bad!
“I’m all for the movie, though, and I’m excited to see it.”
Apple’s most recent album, The Idler Wheel... (which includes “Every Single Night”) came out in 2012 and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album.
Lil Nas X, meanwhile, has become an international sensation thanks to his breakout hit “Old Town Road”.
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