Rebound (Arty and Mat Zo song)

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"You can't steal if you credited somebody. He and I communicated. ... It's not my fault he didn't tell me about the other guy. So who is to blame? I didn't know."

will.i.am. in defense to the accusations [9]

In a later interview with radio station KIIS-FM, will.i.am. admitted stealing from "Rebound" accidentally and that he was confused whether he ever had the rights to use "Rebound" for his song. [11] He stated, "Arty is a dope producer so I wrote this song to 'Rebound' this last year. I got in touch with Arty and showed it to him, did a different version to it 'cause I asked him [to] make it newer 'cause I don't just wanna take your song and rap over it. But he said that after a year's time, "we preferred writing over and using the [original] rebound. Something happened and the clearance... hopefully we resolved the issue". [6] He then contacted the song owners for negotiation, [12] in which the song was removed from the regular edition on his album #willpower and replaced on the deluxe edition with the song "Feelin' Myself". [13]

Later in May and June 2013, Above & Beyond and Mat Zo, respectively, played the original track on Electric Daisy Carnival and made fun of will.i.am. [14]

Track listing and remixes

"Rebound"
Rebonermatzo.jpg
Single by Arty and Mat Zo
from the album Anjunabeats Presents Mat Zo 01
Released18 April 2011
Genre Trance [1]
Length7:45
Label Anjunabeats
Arty and Mat Zo singles chronology
"Rebound"
(2011)
"Mozart"
(2011)
Arty singles chronology
"Zara"
(2011)
"Rebound"
(2011)
"Around The World"
(2011)
Digital download [15]
No.TitleLength
1."Rebound (Original Mix)"7:45
2."Rebound (Radio Edit)"3:29

Later in November 2011, a remix by Ukrainian producer Omnia was featured on Anjunabeats Volume 9 as a bonus track. [16]

In 2022, Jason Ross released a remix of the song. [17]

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelReference
Worldwide18 April 2011 Digital download Anjunabeats [2]

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