Ironi:

You sound very ignorant and don't know what you are talking about.

logica: LOL. Idiots are always stup!d. "Stup!d id!ot" = tautology (yeah, look it up quickly). Though you may be the first smart id!ot. Monkey, you've already wasted enough time with me. I wouldn't mind you wasted a bit more. LOL @ stinking Nigerian girls. How many have you sniffed? I guess they only allow you sniff the pv$$y but you don't get to hit eh? LMAO. You are right though - I'm a "motherfcker". Ask your mother.

I wouldn't mind you wasted a bit more

I guess they only allow you sniff the pv$$y but you don't get to hit eh?

phantasm: Hey, talking about an artiste copying from a song is a case on its own. But talking about artistes on styles that might have originated from another region is no talk please.
Every ariste has the right to choose or tailor what genre of music he'll like to major or minor on. Besides, genres or styles of music are not and can never be uniquely registered to any kind of region....

And to all those who kept saying local artistes borrowed from from intl ones as early as the early 2000's- that was a big lie. Tony Tetuila before his collaboration with Tic Tac has released some fast track, danceable songs which wasnt influenced at all by what some people are claiming. It was even during his era that there came to birth Tic Tac n the likes...
The internet is a good library for research and some acclaimed media houses that were and are still around are also places to inquire of facts....

If as some people here claim that the 'intl' guys originated fast tempo hiplife songs like the ones prevalent in our locality today and you were all good at mentioning some of thier legendary artistes of highlife who could have started the trends many years back. Then where would you put the likes of our late and living and legendary fast if not faster tempo highlife artistes like Sir Orlando Julius, Dairo, and some eastern folks with thier distinct and creative styles of highlife music?


Is wrong to steal from another person's work without the owner's consent and I am not disputing that, but the matter of genres or style of music is a different ball game entirely.....Artistes are at liberty to choose what style of music suit them...

safarigirl: Got no time to reply attention seekers. Whether Flavor copied or not, I don't care, where else did the copied song play apart from Ghana? what guarantees do you have that those eediots didn't also steal from someone else? I repeat, there is NO ORIGINALITY in any song of this century, everything is a remix. Better artistes have had their songs copied without raising dust, these backyard boys wan come talk. They can cry all they want, nothing will be done, e be like sey hunger don drive them comot from their cave, Flavor don turn meal ticket, only one semi-hit song that made waves just in their local government na im we no go hear word, wetin do others? Abi they couldn't find another person to steal from? Do you know how many people have remixed 'chop my money'? Has P-square sued anyone? If it's not hunger that's motivating these f00ls, what else? Abeg make we rest jare, anybody looking for originality should go back to 90's music and above.

Ishilove: Ghanaian artistes should go and sit down! They can't be compared in music quality with Flavour. Flavour is a pole apart who is paying tribute to his friend and mentor,MC Loff. Ghanaians are not noted for good quality music because their music contents are always drab and dry without any meaningful or discerning message. N'abania is an original work of Flavour

safarigirl: Got no time to reply attention seekers. Whether Flavor copied or not, I don't care, where else did the copied song play apart from Ghana? what guarantees do you have that those eediots didn't also steal from someone else? I repeat, there is NO ORIGINALITY in any song of this century, everything is a remix. Better artistes have had their songs copied without raising dust, these backyard boys wan come talk. They can cry all they want, nothing will be done, e be like sey hunger don drive them comot from their cave, Flavor don turn meal ticket, only one semi-hit song that made waves just in their local government na im we no go hear word, wetin do others? Abi they couldn't find another person to steal from? Do you know how many people have remixed 'chop my money'? Has P-square sued anyone? If it's not hunger that's motivating these f00ls, what else? Abeg make we rest jare, anybody looking for originality should go back to 90's music and above.

mikeapollo:

Why are u abusing people, calling them idiots when they have not offended you. Let Flavour come out and defend himself if he has his points or his own side of the story!

It is not a crime to lift a song/track from someone else's works....all what is required is to acknowledge them. It does not even require any money or legal battles if you appreciate their originality and acknowlegde it in your own works.

The problem has to do with the desperation of a typical Nigerian to want to cut corners or impress people at all costs, even when he lacks the requisite credentials/capacity to do that.
In the western world, big artiste do copy/lift materials from other artistes, but they go ahead and acknowledge them in their new works.
Whitney Houston sang 'I Will Always Love You' and acknowledged Dolly Parton as the original owner of the song.
That is what Flavour should have done instead of trying to play a fool on his fans and as well as the original owners of what he copied

2sa2: Its a shame that this flavour guy cannot be original, let them sue the bastard

londoner: Oh please.....some talking about Nigerians copying Ghana's music of the 2000's are so wrong.

They are VERY distinct...........hip life especially is very distinct.


We can agree that high life is widely reported to have began in Ghana....but they also had influences from elsewhere.
Especially with the European horn arrangements etc.

You can't just share the music with the world then keep it hostage or complain that others are influenced.

In fact it is thanks to people like Flavour and J martins etc, that we are still listening to high life on new releases in 2012.

Ghanaian artists chose to depart from it and follow Gh hip-hop (hip life)

ogugua88:

Gbam, gbamer, gbamest. Gbam.com sef. Clear road for man wey sabi.

mikeapollo:

Truth is bitter but must be told!

Flavour lifted the concept of that song from the Ghana guys' work.

The Ghana guys released their work as far back as 2008, while Flavour's work was released towards the end of 2011.

Most Nigerian musicians singing highlife always tap something from the Ghanaian highlife musicians, who are better at it and more original, but they sing mostly in Ghanaian local languages. But Nigerian musicians sing more in English, so they enjoy some leverage.
Tony Tetuila was the first among the present crop of young Nigerian musicians to tap into the Ghanaian fast temp hip-lfe in the late 1990s and early 2000s, which Nigerians are now calling Afro hip-hop. Ghanaians have been playing their fast tempo hiplife for time immemorial.

What music were people lik Eedris, Tuface, PSquare, Flavour, DBanj, JMartins, Duncan Mighty, Omawumi,Iyanya etc playing 10 years ago? They were all doing some meaningless R&B, American Hip-Hop.
They started playing the hiplfie/afro hip-hop style just about 5 years ago after their exposure to Ghanaian music from STV's MUSIC AFRICA and their traveling and colloborations with Ghanaian musicians.
Infact most of the Afro hip-hop hit songs in Nigeria are less than 5 years in the Market! While it is has always been the hit style in Ghana for over 20 years. I vistited the country(Ghana) severally in the 90s and early 2000s and I witnessed the trend. And even Tony Tetuila acknowledged and confirmed it when he was on tour with TicTac to Ghanaian parties in Ghana and abroad!

We Nigerians just like to copy(or maybe steal) things from other places and then pretend to claim ownership! Very soon we shall claim to be owners of Azonto dance!

sally bonne:

And ur point is, reggae music has been on from time immemorial became popular by bob marley jah rest hos soul, u guys wana tell me now dt all d regga artists in naija and beyond should b sued , african prints or should I say ankara has been worn in nigeria since ages past btonly recently started gaining attention wen d foreign celebs started getin dressed in dem, last time it was beyonce dt wore gele 2 d red carpet and modelled in it, nobody complain, so if naija decide to borrow frm ghana weda nw afro abi na hiplife it must b wahala, pls 4 d record we are nt dragging anytin wit ghana, dnt no why any issue bothering ghana and naija have to b so sensitive, u release sth it bcomes a trend u nw want 2 sue ppl following u, abeg, and 4 d azonto dance no one is intrested in claiming it belong to najia for petes sake we have had dances frm yahooze to atlanta, etighi and ddose ones done by dose dancers in ajegunle, small azonto now we no go hear word, ghana u have nt told us your competition wit naija we no dey drag anytin o,haba

londoner: @mikeapollo........

The uptempo stuff Ghanaians were playing a few years ago was HIPLIFE, although it took its name from high life, it had its origins in hip hop.It was rap and NOT highlife.

You can not tell me that Nigerians music of today sounds remotely like hiplife.

To be honest new Ghanaian groups NEVER took up the mantle of highlife, but rap.

You are talking about tony tetuila because he had songs with Ghanaian artists and some were produced in Ghana....these are COLLABO's......NONE of Tuface's stuff whether from his days in Plantasion boys or now have anything to do with the highlife sound....none at all. The only ones that had anything Ghanaian was when he featured with GH artists on their songs or label mates V.I.P when they are both signed to a Nigeria label.

Its the same with all those artists you mentioned. There are NO young Ghanaian artists who really use highlife sound.

In fact, all songs are on youtube, so why don't you post here what you are claiming to be the truth? People like J Martins etc and Don Jazzy get their highlife inspirations from Naija highlife artists and when they cover songs Nigerian artists they do covers to like Osondi Owendi and Rex Lawson's song etc, in fact Dbanj has his inpiration from Yoruba music too.....so where did Ghana come into it?

Please tell me when Omawumni started using Highlife or anything Ghanaian? She actually hasn't or do you think that musical inspiration just happens in Ghana.

After the old musicians in Ghana who played highlife,the younger generation left it to die. The Nigerian highlife has been given the attention and respect it deserves by younger Nigerian musicians of today.

There has been continuity in Nigeria between the old and new highlife musicians......Ghanaian artists of today chose to go down another route.

I want you to paste here the Ghana music you are saying Naija copied.......put them here side by side we can all play it here and hear for ourselves.

mikeapollo:


My point is, we should be magnanimous and honest enough to acknowledge other people's efforts and ingenuity. Other people have acknowledged the contribution of Nigerian music.
For instance, it is very unprofessional and shameful for P Square to steal virtually all the Azonto steps/moves and then call it 'Alingo'(ruubiish) inorder to take the credit(it is like stealing someone's copyright works). It smacks of dubious tendency.

Why not be original and keep it real.....when you use or adopt someone eles' work or idea, be real to acknowledge it and give credit to who it is due.....you would also be credited and acknowledged when someone uses your own work/idea/style.....

sallybonne:
Na wah o! Why all this ghana and nigeria barrage of insults and counter insults on the net,last time it was because of the last olympics about the baskeball issue now it is about flavour and nigerian musicians lifting songs, if the wutah guys have a case they have a right to go to court, but what am still asking is it ghana law court or ICC cos I dnt see how they will order flavour and him going, dis post is laughable, please easy on the insults guys, ghana ,nigeria we all are brothers and sisters, neighours and are west africans too.