Ghanaian media character MC Yaa Yeboah slammed rapper Medikal and his label head, Criss Waddle of AMG Enterprise, over their response to being sued by veteran Ghanaian singing group Alabaster Field.
Yaa Yeboah, talking on United Showbiz on UTV, expressed consternation over the extent of ignorance within the Ghanaian music trade that causes artists to really feel entitled to make use of the mental property of different individuals with out due recourse.
Yeboah descended on Medikal and Criss Waddle particularly, who angrily took to X (previously Twitter) to query the ‘Christianess’ of Alabaster Field for suing Medikal over his use of a snippet from their timeless traditional, ‘Welcome’, in his new tune ‘Welcome to Africa’.
Waddle had written on X in response to the lawsuit, which seeks Ghc 15m in damages: ““In the event that they had been secular musicians I’ll perceive,However Gospel? You’ll be able to ask to be paid however to ask for 15 million cedis? How a lot does an entire album generate? If u wish to be depraved don’t add Christianity to ur identification,”
His phrases triggered MC Yaa Yeboah who dragged the businessman/musician and his protege: “You’ve taken any person’s hook with out altering something – you took the identical factor…to your rap. Then the individuals out of respect write to you and inform you that, do the precise factor or we take you to court docket. You are feeling you’re good so that you return and take away the offending half out and repost the video. Then they take you to court docket and somebody thinks they will query your Christianity. The ignorance on this trade is an excessive amount of!” Yeboah fumed.
Yeboah stated Medikal might have forestalled all this with a easy telephone name or a go to to Alabaster Field to hunt permission earlier than utilising the tune.
Alabaster Field dragged Medikal to court docket for copyright infringement over his use of a part of their tune, ‘Welcome’, in a current tune he launched.
The group initially despatched a stop and desist letter to Medikal for him to tug down the music with the offending materials and to offer an accounting of all income earned by the music or face a court docket battle.
Medikal refused to reply, resulting in being slapped with a Ghc 15 million lawsuit just a few days later.