Dua Lipa Settles "Levitating" Lawsuit With Producer Bosko Kante

Dua Lipa has settled the lawsuit brought against her by producer Bosko Kante over "Levitating," Rolling Stone reported. Lawyers for both sides signalled the agreement in court documents filed on Monday, 9 November 2026.

The case has been dismissed with prejudice, a legal term meaning it cannot be brought again. Both sides will pay their own costs and legal fees. Whether the deal includes any payment, or any change to the song's credits, has not been disclosed.

Kante filed his suit in 2023. He alleged copyright infringement and breach of contract, which means a deal was broken, not just a copyright claimed. A copyright infringement claim argues that someone used a work without permission.

At the centre of the dispute is a talk-box performance, a sound made by routing an instrument through a tube into the performer's mouth so that lips and throat shape the tone. Kante said he had struck a licensing agreement, a formal permission deal, allowing his talk-box part to appear on "Levitating." He said that agreement covered only the original version of the song, released on 26 March 2020. He argued it did not extend to later remixes, including the version featuring rapper DaBaby.

Kante also said that producer Stephen "Koz" Kozmeniuk approached him in 2019 about creating and performing a talk-box part for the track. Warner Records and Kozmeniuk were named as defendants alongside Lipa. These were Kante's claims.

For a dispute that has run since 2023, the settlement ends it without a trial. Kante and the defendants have not publicly set out what was agreed beyond the dismissal and the shared legal costs.