Nigerian singer Omah Lay has recounted how a popular musician stole his idea and made an album with it.
The Afrobeat singer disclosed this in an interview with Zach Sang Show. The ‘Damn’ singer disclosed that he had an idea and had changed it with a popular singer who he loves and was hoping to make a collaboration with. Unfortunately for him, the singer stole his idea and made an album with it. Omah said he had to remake his album and believed it would be the greatest.
“Holy Ghost is a new movement, I was going to make the whole album with the new sound, but along the line, I changed my mind, and I decided to. I shared an idea with a certain artist, and the artiste went ahead and put up an album with my idea, and I had to go back and record my album.
I had an idea to do something with sound, and he came to me and asked me and it is an artist that I love. So, I decided to collaborate and show him where I was heading with Afrobeat and five months later, he put up an album with the same sound that I shared with him. So, I had to go back and remake my album, which would be the greatest album of all time probably in history”.
Omah Lay isn’t the only one who has had his idea stolen. Months back, Big Brother Naija season 3 housemate, Tope Adebuniyan better known as Teddy A had vented out over how a popular TV host stole his business idea. Teddy A recounted how he pitched an idea for a football podcast on IG and YouTube to the TV host and asked him to bring on board a big brand he represented, and he agreed to the idea.
However, the TV host gave him excuses as to why the idea couldn’t come to fruition, and Teddy A concluded that the brand didn’t support the idea. He was proven wrong when he saw the TV host hosting the program on YouTube, proudly sponsored by the said brand. Feeling betrayed, Teddy A questioned if that’s how the industry operates.
Over the years, musicians have called out themselves for intellectual theft.
In January, Singer and member of the defunct Plantashun Boiz, Blackface had called out Asake over alleged theft. In a series of tweets, Blackface accused Asake of not seeking permission before remixing his song. He noted how the artiste was trying to outsmart him, but he was way smarter than Asake thinks.
Still airing out his grievances in an interview with HipTV, Blackface stated that he deserved recognition on Joha as he took a swipe at Olamide, who is the record label boss of Asake, stating that if only Olamide had reached out to him, then there would have been a collaboration.
