Artists Tykeiya Dore and Marc Stephens have filed a $5 million copyright lawsuit in opposition to Drake and Chris Brown, claiming that their 2019 hit “No Steering” borrows extensively from Dore and Stephens’ 2016 monitor, “I Obtained It.” The go well with alleges notable similarities in chord progressions, tempo, and melodic construction, with specific emphasis on the parallel phrases “I received it” and “You bought it” featured in each songs.
In line with Hypebeast, The lawsuit goes past Drake and Chris Brown, naming an intensive checklist of collaborators, together with producers Noah “40” Shebib, Vinylz, J-Louis, and Teddy Walton, together with songwriters Velous, Nija Charles, and Michee Lebrun. RCA Information and related publishers are additionally implicated within the declare.
Of their submitting, the plaintiffs counsel potential avenues via which “I Obtained It” may have reached the “No Steering” workforce through business connections. Moreover, they problem YouTube’s response to a associated copyright declare, alleging that the platform improperly penalized Stephens’ channel after he requested a takedown.
