There have been many times when Indian music composers have shipped in music from the West. But this latest incident has just turned the table. American rapper T-Pain represently dropped his latest composition That’s Yo Money as a surprise for his fans, but it soon backfired. Many Indian fans who follow the musician, immediately recognised the background music running in the song. It’s not even copied but entirely imported from Aashiqui 2’s iconic song Tum Hi Ho sung by Arijit Singh. Several fans pointed out the plagiarism in the music video which has crossed 200 million views on YouTube.
Mohit Suri, the director of Aashiqui 2, wrote on Twitter: Dunno why but this seems familiar. It’s a melody from Mithun’s song buddy. He even tagged Mithoon who composed the iconic music of Aashiqui 2 along with T-series Managing Director Bhushan Kumar.
Mithoon, after learning about the video, wrote: Sir, the melody that you have used in your new song is my original work for a previously released Hindi film..The Label is looking into this.
T-Pain took to his Twitter to reply on the copyright infringement claims by Mohit Suri and T-series. He wrote: Woke up to getting dragged by brown twitter. Sooooo yea. I definitely didn’t produce this song. Had no idea that was a sample and have never heard the music before I got the beat from the producer. Easy thing to work out. The labels will be in contact. Thanx
After many allegations and backlashing, the video was taken down from YouTube as the video streaming website is investigating the copyright claims. Many people took to social media to react on this latest plagiarism case where a Western musician has stolen Indian music.
Tum Hi Ho, which became a thing back in 2013, was picturised on Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor. It was crooned by Arijit Singh, after which the singer became a household name among every Indian.
Talking about T-Pain, he is an American rapper who has bagged two Grammy Awards for Good Life and Blame It.
