Kanye West is being sued for copyright infringement, but it’s his antisemitic and racist screeds that are taking center stage in the lawsuit.

German artist Alice Merton as well as two German corporations are suing the 47-year-old rapper, legally known as Ye, for allegedly sampling Merton’s 2022 song “Blindside” in his 2024 track “Gun To My Head” (feat. Kid Cudi), according to a complaint filed Tuesday in California and reviewed by the Daily News.

Merton, 31, was “shocked and humiliated” to learn of Ye’s sampling of her song when he performed “Gun To My Head” — a Ty Dolla $ign collaboration — at a Miami event in December 2023. Two months later, Ye’s camp formally requested to sample “Blindside,” which was denied March 7, 2024, without explanation.

Later that day, after being asked “to give a reason why the request was rejected,” Merton responded, “The artist’s values are contrary to our values.”

She was “unwilling to compromise her personal beliefs and wanted not to be associate with Ye in any manner,” reads the complaint, pointing to his ongoing history of “antisematic (sic), racist remarks.”

“Merton is a German resident who has close ties to the Holocaust through Jewish family members who survived its horrors, and as such feels closely connected to it,” reads the complaint.

Merton said outraged fans who learned “Gun To My Head” was not on Ye’s “Vultures” album “blamed Merton for not authorizing” the use of “Blindside,” have contacted her and issued “death threats and abuse.”

Merton says she was concerned enough to stop performing the song and issued a cease and desist to Ye’s camp in August, a move to which he did not respond.

“Ye is no stranger to copyright infringement claims,” reads the complaint, adding that since 2008, he has been accused 14 times. Merton and her fellow plaintiffs are demanding a jury trial.

Last month, Ye unleashed yet another in a long string of antisemitic tirades on X, declaring himself a Nazi, praising Hitler, and even selling swastika-emblazoned t-shirts.

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