Following accusations that R&B singer/producer the Weeknd had improperly used a sample of Portishead's 2008 single "Machine Gun" on "Belong to the World" last year, the latter group's Geoff Barrow has posted a letter to Twitter allegedly showing that the Weeknd had requested to sample the track. Last year, Barrow had reported that the Weeknd claimed that he did not use a sample and that the music in the song was not similar enough to "Machine Gun" to warrant infringement, "or credit," as the Portishead multi-instrumentalist put it on Twitter.
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