The Weeknd is facing a lawsuit over one of his biggest hit songs, summer smash "The Hills."
A copyright infringement suit filed Wednesday claims the R&B singer took a bass line without permission from the soundtrack of 2013 sci-fi The Machine, according to the New York Times.
Music company Cutting Edge Music filed the suit, which seeks unspecified damages, in Los Angeles for Tom Raybould, the soundtrack's composer.
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The suit additionally claims that one of the Weeknd's producers, Emmanuel Nickerson (a.k.a. Million Dollar Mano), direct messaged Raybould on Twitter, writing "I sampled your music might make it 2 the weeknd next album. Huge fan of what u did 4 the machine movie!”
The suit claims the song "Revolution" on the film's soundtrack has an extremely similar bass line with "almost identical idiosyncratic sounds at the same register and using the same pitch sequence, melodic phase structure and rhythmic durations"
Here's the Machine song down below.