Ghanaian artist Obrafour has filed a lawsuit against Drake, claiming that the superstar rapper’s song 2022 Call my name introduces an unauthorized sample from one of Obrafour’s own works.
Fifty-three seconds after that track, a lead vocalist can be heard saying “Killer’s cut, blood, killer’s cut.”
In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday (April 18) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Obrafour alleges that the line was taken from a remix of his 2003 song. Oye Ohene.
The lawsuit, which you can read in full here, minimal search 10 million USD in damage. It names a host of accomplices, including Drake’s record company OVO, his record label, Republic ProfileIts owner, Popular music group (UMG) and a number of affiliated companies.
Also named in the lawsuit is music producer Alex Lustig; DJ Diamante Blackmon (current stage name GORDO, formerly Carnage); musician and producer Johannes Klahr; and musician Beau Nox, all listed as producers or writers on Call My Name.
In the complaint, Obrafour alleges that an agent representing Drake and the other defendants emailed him asking for permission to sample the track “just days” earlier. Call my name was released last year.
That email expired on June 8, 2022, and the dealer sent a follow-up email on June 13. Obrafour has yet to respond to these emails when Call my name dropped on June 17, the complaint alleges.
Call my name is the sixth track on Drake’s Honestly, it’s nothing surprise album was released last June and debuted at number 1 in the US billboards 200.
According to the complaint, the album generated more than 250 million streams in its first week alone. Call my name it has earned more than 47 million streams on its own Spotify and 4.1 million views on YouTubealleging complaint.
“Defendants’ violations were and continue to be intentional and known,” the complaint states.
In addition to the $10 million in damages, the lawsuit seeks profits made from disc sales, streaming, live performances, and other revenue-related sources. Call my name. It also claims to cover Obrafour’s legal costs.
Obrafour is a Ghanaian rapper who has been described by the local Ghanaian media as one of the most popular figures on the local music scene. His musical genre, hiplife, is a mix of hip-hop and traditional Ghanaian music.
Drake also Make the title this week after a song called heart on my sleeve went viral with AI-generated Drake and AI-generated The Weeknd
The music has been uploaded YouTube and TikTok by its purported author, who is nicknamed the ghostwriter.
Also through a third-party distributor, the track has successfully made its way to streaming services like Spotify, apple music, sound cloud, Deezer And TIDALwhere it started to grow to hundreds of thousands of turns.
The AI’s ‘Fake Drake’ track was then deleted from streaming platforms.Global Music Business
