Singer Rye Rye Calls Out Drake For Sampling Her Vocals On Latest Track ‘Calling For You’ Without Crediting Her

Singer and rapper Rye Rye slammed Drake on Friday, Oct. 6, for sampling her vocals from “Shake It To The Ground” with DJ Blaqstarr on the “For All the Dogs” feature without crediting her.

Rye Rye went to Twitter and Instagram with a clip of Drake’s “Calling For You” on his latest album, “For All the Dogs,” featuring 21 Savage.

“Really, @Drake. My vocals again? [And] No Credit? I really wanna be flattered, but I feel like it’s trolling ATP OMG…one of my fave artists doing this. I don’t know how to feel anymore. But thank you for reminding me that my 15-year-old vocals are still legendary,” Rye Rye wrote in an X post.

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Prior to Drake using Rye Rye’s vocals in the aforementioned track, he included her sample on “Curents,” featured on his 2022 “Honestly, Nevermind” album. 

“I’m happy, too, but also I feel played with…me and @blaqstarr FR should be getting our credit, but this also lets me know I’m legendary, lol. Thank you, but stop taking advantage of Black women dawg,” she stated on Instagram.

The 32-year-old received support from others demanding her credit and hate from those who didn’t understand the big deal when he only included Rye’s “What” from “Shake It To The Ground.” Others claimed that Rye should’ve projected her frustration on the producers, not Drake.

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Rye Rye schooled haters, arguing she understood the producers played a significant role in it, but after the last time he sampled and didn’t credit her, he should’ve learned from that lesson.

“All that coverage from last time, Drake had to see it and his team…his team definitely knows it, ain’t no excuses like WTF…ultimately, it’s the producers, but it’s up to the labels and artists to clear it up,” she wrote on IG.

The “Bang” songstress went further, providing receipts on how Drake and his team credited her and DJ Blaqstarr as sampled artists on “Currents,” but included labeled hip-hop group Trillville (members Donnelle “Don P” Prince, “Jamal “Dirty Mouth” Glaze and Lawrence “Lil LA” Edwards) as sampled artists and songwriters.

“On Apple Music, me [and] my producer listed as sampled artists on the first one ‘Currents’..w/ Trillville, but you see how they all got writing credits for the chair squeak..oh ok,” she said on X, with a video of her scrolling through “Currents” credited writers and artists.

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Drizzy has yet to respond.