will.i.am Insists He Didn't Steal 'Let's Go'

The Black Eyed Peas frontman says he's been
unfairly accused of stealing from producer
Arty whom he invited to collaborate for 'Let's
Go'.
In the ongoing
controversy
surrounding his
collaboration
track "Let's Go"
with Chris
Brown , will.i.am
has spoken yet
again to defend
himself against
allegations that
he ripped off
producers Arty
& Mat Zo's
dance track
"Rebound" to
come up with his new single. The 38-year-old
songwriter/record producer said he's unfairly
being accused of stealing the song's beat since
it was all done with the prior notification.
The Black Eyed Peas frontman said that after
hearing the 2011 track "Rebound", he reached
out to Arty with an invitation to collaborate
made via email, to which the Russian trance
producer favorably responded to. will.i.am also
properly credited him as a writer on "Let's Go"
as indicated on the liner notes of his new
" #willpower " album.
Thus, it was a bit disappointing to him when he
learned that Arty had written on his Facebook
page that he "never cleared rights through
Anjunabeats, who's only one label, who owns
[sic] the rights for 'Rebound'." will.i.am said
his legal team had been working on the
licensing issue but blamed the slow legal
clearance process for the misunderstanding.
will.i.am also confessed he was not aware that
Arty had worked with another producer on
"Rebound" which he feels rightfully absolves
him from not crediting Mat Zo in his album.
"You can't steal if you credited somebody," he
insisted. "He and I communicated. ...It's not
my fault he didn't tell me about the other guy.
So who is to blame? I didn't know."