Brinx Billions hopes to make millions out of this business.
While he has known Nicki Minaj for nearly fifteen years, he assures that the singer plagiarized him.
The latter would have had no qualms about "
stealing
" his song, he says.
According to information from the American site TMZ, which obtained legal documents, it is the title
Rich Sex
, a song recorded with Lil Wayne on his
Queen
album
released in 2018.
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Brinx Billions, Jawara Headley of her real name, assures to have made listen to this piece to the singer in 2016. Very enthusiastic, she would have predicted him a real success.
But if she can boast of having had flair, Minaj would nevertheless have shown dishonesty.
Brinx Billions says that besides the melody, arrangements and rhythm, Nicki Minaj would also have appropriated her title and entire verses.
The only author, composer and producer behind
Rich Sex
, however, he is not credited as such on the song.
He is therefore suing Nicki Minaj, as well as the Universal Music Group, Young Money and Cash Money labels, from whom he is claiming 200 million dollars in damages.
Baby I Can Hold You by
Tracy Chapman
This is not the first time that
Nicki Minaj's
Queen
album
has been the subject of accusations of plagiarism.
In 2018, singer Tracy Chapman also sued the American rapper for copying her lyrics and melody on the track
Sorry
.
According to Chapman, it was an identical copy, with a few details, of his hit
Baby I Can Hold You
, released in 1988.
If the agents of Nicki Minaj had made "
multiple requests
" in order to be able to use these elements, Tracy Chapman had affirmed to be always opposed to it.
Finally, the rapper had given up including
Sorry
in this record which has sold more than 500,000 copies in the United States.