A music producer has called Nigerian Artiste and former Triple MG artiste, Emma Nyra out for stealing his content and illegally churning it out.
Recall that Emma Nyra recently released ‘Work Hard’, the lead single off her forthcoming EP, Love Vs Money.
The producer, OD Beats who filmed a session from Emma Nyra’s recording released the video along with an official statement in which he claimed to have hit a brick wall with the artiste’s management after finalizing work on the beat. He further claimed that Emma and her team have since refused to pay him his dues for the work done.
His statement reads:
“On June 29th Emma Nyra was in the studio with Samson Ohda aka OD Beats when he creatively produced and composed the reggae/afropop influenced beat for ‘Work Hard’ off her released Ep. After OD beats had been contracted (Verbally/Text Messages) to produce her EP, shortly after started having difficulty with payment from her camp. Subsequently after trying to make a deposit for OD to send over some tracks, they started making up excuses which lead to her stealing the intellectual property in a sordid attempt to recreate an idea idea she did not pay for and sell it of as having produced by another Houston based producer (Tag on the track) in a show of spite.
My reason for highlighting and sharing this story is to touch on the manner producers are often taking advantage of when they try to work with an established artist to a mutual end. I hear these stories countlessly and it’s devastating to the psyche when someone puts his heart and soul into something and someone else feels entitled enough to steal your efforts with impunity. In an industry that’s already lacking compensatory structure, I can only imagine how producers in Nigeria and other countries are being taken advantage of; which is not to say all artists are that way”.
See the video he released as proof:
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