Travis Scott No Longer Facing Lawsuit Over ‘Alright’ Sample on ‘Astroworld’ and ‘Utopia’

A pair of songwriters dropped their nearly three-year-old copyright infringement case against the star rapper. Travis Scott at “The Odyssey” New York Premiere held at AMC Lincoln Square on July 14, 2026 in New York, New York. Gilbert Flores/Variety Trending on Billboard Two songwriters have dropped a nearly three-year-old lawsuit that accused Travis Scott of sampling their work without a license on two tracks off his chart-topping albums Astroworld and Utopia. Dion Norman and Derrick Ordogne, co-writers of the 1992 DJ Jimi song “B—–s Reply,” voluntarily dismissed their legal claims against Scott and Sony Music on Friday (Oct. 9). The court filing, obtained and first reported by Billboard, did not specify whether any settlement was reached to end the lawsuit. Related Norman and Ordogne filed suit at the beginning of 2024 alleging Scott included an uncleared sample from “B—–s Reply” on both “Stargazing” from 2018’s Astroworld and “Til Further Notice” off Utopia in 2023. The tracks, which both reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, each feature a repetition of the word “alright.” The lawsuit claimed that these repeated “alrights” were lifted from “B—–s Reply”. Other artists have previously credited Norman and Ordogne to sample or interpolate that
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