{"id":453560,"date":"2018-01-10T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/10\/legal-action-against-burna-boy-for-stealing-song-not-necessary-a-i\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:00:23","slug":"legal-action-against-burna-boy-for-stealing-song-not-necessary-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/10\/legal-action-against-burna-boy-for-stealing-song-not-necessary-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal action against Burna Boy for stealing song not necessary \u2013 A.I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday,  9 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>livefmghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/99812441.295.jpg\" alt=\"A.I. 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For Burna Boy\" width=\"295\" height=\"227\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>A.I.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817981905\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817981905\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515542423_363_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Resorting to legal action to resolve the \u2018musical theft\u2019 by Nigerian artiste, Burna Boy is not necessary, says A.I.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Grind\u2019 hitmaker told JOY NEWS, it is better to leave things as they are now, and also because Burna Boy\u2019s camp have removed the song from all online platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome things are better left the way they are. We didn\u2019t want to take it up. It wasn\u2019t necessary\u2026We saw that it wasn\u2019t necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Burna Boy decided to record a version of hit song \u2018Grind\u2019 by DJ Vision and A.I without their authorization. The Nigerian act called his remix \u2018Chilling Chilling.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He was called out on Twitter by A.I, leading to the former blocking the latter.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Watch below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gat6JEi5K2w\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Read an August 2017 report on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian Singer A.I. claims he warned Nigerian artiste Burna Boy against releasing a remix of street anthem \u2018Grind.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that himself and his team were approached about the remix but a decision was not made before the Nigerian act released his remixed version of the song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey approached us that they will want to do the remix of Grind. So went ahead to do the remix and mastered ready for release, we were just getting business in order \u2026\u2026 the next day we found out that he is releasing grind re-up (Chilling chilling)\u2026\u2026. We went behind to tell them not to release the song and they went ahead to do it.\u201d explained A.I to Joel Orleans on DryveOnY.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke about his reaction to the Nigerian star blocking him: \u201cThere was no reason why he blocked me, I still don\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: 4 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Tuesday, 9 January 2018 Source: livefmghana.com 2018-01-09 A.I. Resorting to legal action to resolve the \u2018musical theft\u2019 by Nigerian artiste, Burna Boy is not necessary, says A.I. The \u2018Grind\u2019 hitmaker told JOY NEWS, it is better to leave things as they are now, and also because Burna Boy\u2019s camp have removed the song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":453561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}