In the blink of an eye, ‘Vapor City‘ legend Machinedrum landed his feet in hot water without even knowing it through a very public spat and outburst from Chicago juke producer DJ Clent and a sample vocal he created for a tune ‘Back Seat Ho’.

From what was meant to be an honest sample swap with DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, turned into a mini nightmare with the New York-via-Berlin producer explaining “they gave me an amazing library of samples titled “wordz and dropz”. They explained to me that it was a collection of vocal recordings used in a lot of classic Juke and Footwork tunes.”

Machinedrum went onto clarify that in the sample library he was given DJ Clent’s “Back Seat Ho” sample files that were titled “82 Track 82.mp3″ and “83 Track 83.mp3″ and that there was no mention of who the samples were recordings of.

The situation escalated very quickly with the release while Machinedrum was playing at SXSW with DJ Clent sending letters to Ninja Tunes and his email and quoting publicly “I hope to resolve this situation swiftly and we can get back to talking about what is most important, the music.”