Rauw Alejandro has been sued for allegedly sampling multiple tracks by reggaeton legend DJ Playero on his hit 2022 album Saturno without proper licenses.

The Puerto Rican superstar (Raúl Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz ) faces the claims in a lawsuit brought Thursday (Aug. 21) by BM Records, a reggaeton-focused label and distributor based in Florida. The company says it owns much of the catalog of DJ Playero (Pedro Gerardo Torruellas Brito), a fixture of the genre known for working with hitmakers like Daddy Yankee.

BM Records says multiple songs off Alejandro’s album Saturno, which debuted at No. 25 on the Billboard 200 in November 2022 and spent 28 weeks on the chart, contain unlicensed samples of Playero songs owned by the company.

The company alleges that Alejandro’s “DE CAROLINA” samples Play

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