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Following his lawsuit against Canadian rapper Drake, the guy with the distinctive voice, Mantse Aryeequaye, formerly of the Last Two Records, has come out to claim ownership of the jingle “Killer Cut,” the opening voice that inspired Obrafuour’s popular song Oye Ohene.
Legendary Ghanaian rapper Obrafour is suing Drake for using a sample of his 2003 remix of “Oye Ohene” on the song “Calling My Name” from the album Honestly Nevermind.
In court documents submitted in New York, Obrafour asserts that Canadian rapper Drake violated his copyright by exploiting a portion of his music without his consent and that the creators of “Calling My Name” made money off of his creation.
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Despite the fact that the respondents in the aforementioned infringement case had reaped enormous benefits, including the production of enormous sums of global streams and sales across a number of platforms, the rapper claimed that the defendants had exploited them in a number of ways, including through live performances.
While a representative of one or more defendants attempted to get Obrafour’s approval for the use of the copyrighted work in the infringing work by approaching Obrafour, “the defendants released the infringing work on June 17, 2022.”
The Ghanaian rapper claimed that after the success of “Calling My Name,” Drake and the other defendants gained financially from his creations. Obrafour wants, among other things, damages of at least $10,000,000.
Parts of the statement reads: “Defendants released the Infringing Work on June 17, 2022, despite the fact that an agent of one or more Defendants had previously contacted Obrafour seeking to obtain Obrafour’s permission for the use of the Copyrighted Work in the Infringing Work.
Obrafour never granted Defendants permission to use the Copyrighted Work and the Infringing Work was released mere days later.
However, in this most recent development, Mantse Aryeequaye has claimed via a series of tweets that the intellectual property, notably the “KILLER CUT” sound that Drake sampled in the tune “Calling My Name,” actually belongs to him and not to Obrafour.
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Mantse claims that the “Killer Cut” sounds were “never relinquished to Obrafour” and that Hammer, the album’s producer, utilized them on Obrafuor’s song as he had done with others. Mantse finished by asserting that he should receive compensation rather than Obrafuour. See what he stated in the following tweets;