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– –<\/span> 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 \u201cKiller Cut,\u201d the opening voice that inspired Obrafuour\u2019s popular song Oye Ohene. <\/p>\n Legendary Ghanaian rapper Obrafour is suing Drake for using a sample of his 2003 remix of \u201cOye Ohene\u201d on the song \u201cCalling My Name\u201d from the album Honestly Nevermind. <\/p>\n 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 \u201cCalling My Name\u201d made money off of his creation.<\/p>\n – –<\/span><\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n While a representative of one or more defendants attempted to get Obrafour\u2019s approval for the use of the copyrighted work in the infringing work by approaching Obrafour, \u201cthe defendants released the infringing work on June 17, 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ghanaian rapper claimed that after the success of \u201cCalling My Name,\u201d Drake and the other defendants gained financially from his creations. Obrafour wants, among other things, damages of at least $10,000,000.<\/p>\n Parts of the statement reads: \u201cDefendants 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\u2019s permission for the use of the Copyrighted Work in the Infringing Work. <\/p>\n Obrafour never granted Defendants permission to use the Copyrighted Work and the Infringing Work was released mere days later.<\/p>\n However, in this most recent development, Mantse Aryeequaye has claimed via a series of tweets that the intellectual property, notably the \u201cKILLER CUT\u201d sound that Drake sampled in the tune \u201cCalling My Name,\u201d actually belongs to him and not to Obrafour. <\/p>\n – –<\/span> Mantse claims that the \u201cKiller Cut\u201d sounds were \u201cnever relinquished to Obrafour\u201d and that Hammer, the album\u2019s producer, utilized them on Obrafuor\u2019s 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;<\/p>\n
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