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Kendrick Lamar is accused of ripping off a legendary 70’s musician, by illegally using his music without permission or credit and now the artist has slapped the rapper with a federal lawsuit demanding he pay back every dime he made in profits from the song.

Music companies, Golden Withers Music and Musidex Music, filed a federal lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar and Top Dawg Music. The companies explain they own the copyright to the song, “Don’t You Want to Stay” written by Bill Withers, Melvin Dunlap and Raymond Jackson and released in 1975 by Withers. [Withers is famous for such hits as “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Lean on Me”.]

Kendrick released a song entitled, “I Do This” which he released in 2013. They accuse the rapper of using the entire music of their song and only adding rap and hip hop lyrics over their track.