Jerome Lawson, lead singer of R&B a cappella group the Persuasions, is suing Apple over its use of his sampled voice from Jamie xx‘s 2015 single, “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times),” featured in an ...

The Persuasions co-founder Jimmy Hayes weighs in on ‘I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)’. Update: Billboard says a rep for Jamie xx confirmed that the sample was in fact cleared by Universal; when ...

The lawsuit maintains that because Lawson’s voice is “prominent and recognizable” in the commercial, it deceives fans into “falsely believing that Lawson endorsed Apple and the iPhone and / or that ...