{"id":766708,"date":"2019-12-17T12:33:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/17\/tic-threatens-to-sue-wizkid\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T12:33:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:33:23","slug":"tic-threatens-to-sue-wizkid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/17\/tic-threatens-to-sue-wizkid\/","title":{"rendered":"Tic threatens to sue Wizkid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"469\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/image-234-696x469.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"image-234\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ghanaian singer Tic, formerly Tic Tac,\u00a0says he may soon sue\u00a0Nigerian singer, Wizkid,\u00a0for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tic, Wizkid had sampled his song <em>Fefe Ne Efe<\/em> which he released in 2004 but failed to pay him for it.<\/p>\n<p>Tic had said in an interview with Andy Dosty on Hitz FM\u2019s Day Break Hitz that Wizkid sampled the chorus of <em>Fefe Ne Efe<\/em> for\u00a0his verse on DJ Tunez\u2019s song titled \u2018Gbese\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a matter of fact, the lawyers are working on it [a law suit]; there have been some discussions,\u201d\u00a0he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Tic also revealed that Wizkid\u2019s team had made attempts to settle him but he did not find their terms to be good\u00a0enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they don\u2019t pay, of course, I will sue them. Some figures mentioned but, there are some other things going on,\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p>Wizkid is on record to have made it clear in the past that Tic is an inspiration for his music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian singer Tic, formerly Tic Tac,\u00a0says he may soon sue\u00a0Nigerian singer, Wizkid,\u00a0for copyright infringement. According to Tic, Wizkid had sampled his song Fefe Ne Efe which he released in 2004 but failed to pay him for it. Tic had said in an interview with Andy Dosty on Hitz FM\u2019s Day Break Hitz that Wizkid sampled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tic threatens to sue Wizkid - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/17\/tic-threatens-to-sue-wizkid\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tic threatens to sue Wizkid - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghanaian singer Tic, formerly Tic Tac,\u00a0says he may soon sue\u00a0Nigerian singer, Wizkid,\u00a0for copyright infringement. 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