{"id":1126344,"date":"2022-06-18T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T08:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/18\/why-ghanaians-are-asking-veteran-ghanaian-rapper-obrafour-to-sue-canadian-superstar-drake\/"},"modified":"2022-06-18T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T08:19:22","slug":"why-ghanaians-are-asking-veteran-ghanaian-rapper-obrafour-to-sue-canadian-superstar-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/18\/why-ghanaians-are-asking-veteran-ghanaian-rapper-obrafour-to-sue-canadian-superstar-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ghanaians are asking veteran Ghanaian rapper Obrafour to sue Canadian superstar Drake\u00a0 \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-ghanaians-have-assembled-on-twitter-asking-veteran-rapper-obrafour-to-sue-drake-over-what-they-term-copyright-infringement\">Ghanaians have assembled on Twitter asking veteran rapper Obrafour to sue Drake over what they term \u2018copyright infringement.\u2019\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Drake is out with his newest studio album Honestly, Nevermind and one of the tracks off the album, Call My Name has a line credited to Obrafour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Obrafour has a song produced over two decades ago dubbed Oye Ohene Rmx featuring Ga rapper Tinny. The opening line of that song has the tagline \u2018Kill a Cat blood, Kill a Cat.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Drake\u2019s Call My name has the same line and after a snippet of the song was made available on the internet, music lovers have asked the veteran Ghanaian rapper to take advantage of the situation and draw some dollars from the superstar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDrake sampled Obrafuor in his latest album? Where are Obrafuor\u2019s lawyers? Sika aba fie.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>a tweep wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ro\" dir=\"ltr\">Drake sampled Obrafuor in his latest album? Where are Obrafuor\u2019s lawyers? Sika aba fie.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Don (@Opresii) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Opresii\/status\/1537723921952296961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p> producer King Of Accra also chipped in, \u201c<strong>If it is true (because I don\u2019t know) then you have to ask @iamobrafour maybe he is aware and has been paid already. If not then of course it can be taken on for compensation if he did not grant the use of the said sample.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ro\" dir=\"ltr\">Drake sampled Obrafuor in his latest album? Where are Obrafuor\u2019s lawyers? Sika aba fie.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Don (@Opresii) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Opresii\/status\/1537723921952296961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Ghanaians have assembled on Twitter asking veteran rapper Obrafour to sue Drake over what they term \u2018copyright infringement.\u2019\u00a0 Drake is out with his newest studio album Honestly, Nevermind and one of the tracks off the album, Call My Name has a line credited to Obrafour.\u00a0 Obrafour has a song produced over two decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1126346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2883,17996,1750,834,17984,1646,358,10100,306],"class_list":["post-1126344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-canadian","tag-drake","tag-ghanaian","tag-ghanaians","tag-obrafour","tag-rapper","tag-sue","tag-superstar","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}