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Nicki Minaj: after Tracy Chapman, a rapper from the Bronx accuses her in turn of plagiarism

2021-01-06T11:16:54.709Z


Brinx Billions claims to be the sole songwriter of the song Rich Sex, released in 2018 on the Queen album. According to him, the singer would have stolen the melody and the arrangements, as well as the title and entire verses. He's asking him for $ 200 million.


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.

Source: lefigaro

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