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HipHop fans will remember when the producer Swizz Beatz was sued by Casio for allegedly stealing demo songs from their keyboards, making beats out of them and putting rappers like DMX and Eve over those beats. Well, Polow Da Don is screwing right now! If you don't know who he is - don't worry, Wikipedia says he "is an Atlanta-based music producer who rose to fame in late 2005 and early 2006 through hit singles by artists including Ludacris, Jamie Foxx, Kelly Rowland, Pussycat Dolls, Fergie, Rich Boy, Ciara, and Kelis." - so the guy has pedigree right?

Well, Polow has recently worked with Usher on his new single 'Love In This Club' which is currently tearing up clubs and radio all over the world. It seems that the beat Polow made for Usher is actually a preset synth sound on Apple's Garageband music making software, given for free on mac computers. Take a look at this:

Polow recently spoke about this to site :
鈥淭hat鈥檚 not where I got them from, but they鈥檙e definitely in there,鈥� Polow said of the sounds used in 鈥淟ove in This Club,鈥� telling SOHH he had yet to view the YouTube video. 鈥淭here鈥檚 this keyboard I have that a lot of sounds come in.鈥� Polow noted that the song contains a live bassline and that Robin Thicke was enlisted to play piano on the record. 鈥淚f a ten-year-old can make 鈥楲ove in This Club鈥� and save Usher鈥檚 career and make black women want to f*ck him again, after they was done with him for getting married, then sh*t he鈥檚 a genius just like me,鈥� Polow said. 鈥淚 also wrote the hook - that鈥檚 not a preset.鈥�

I'm torn on this. Most of me agrees with Polow - anyone can sample records or synths or sounds to make a beat but it's what you do with it that turns it into a hit. What do you think? Has he done enough with the sounds to warrant Apple not trying to sue for part of the copyright or not?