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The source said;
‘We were surprised that they went that route. They didn’t even just sample some strings, the beat and lyrics of the hook are basically the same. Tiwa is extremely upset because it seems like a rip off of her sweat.’

 

Asked if there were any enquiries from the Ubi Franklin led MMMG, the answer was negative. ‘They didn’t ask or inform us before the song was made. As a matter of fact, we reached out to them when we heard the song but they didn’t do us the courtesy of even responding.

 

 

This is not how to do things. Tekno himself is not sharing links to the song as much as his boss Ubi is. This is wrong‘,

He added too that ‘It may not have been in Ciara’s place to know that the song belonged to someone else but the onus was on Tekno as the featured act and producer (who we believe gave the song to her anyway) to inform her.’

On our part, we contacted Ubi Franklin before filing this report. Calls were not answered and text messages sent to him were not replied at the time of publishing this.

 

Although Tiwa Savage (along with Don Jazzy, his brother DPrince ) was listed as one of the composers on streaming sites such as TIDAL, she believes that does not suffice as ‘permission’.

 

Vera August 11, 2018 at 8:17 am

how do you know Tiwa and her team aren’t already aware of Before Nko being sampled. Before you can sample a song on a track for commercial purposes you need to get clearance from the originator. So I’m quite sure Ciara’s team had already done this. There is no need to publicly acknowledge who you sample. Samples are found in almost every song these days and very few artistes shout out the original. So I don’t see how she was trying to be dishonest

 

Ciara has taken to Twitter to give Tiwa Savage her credit on the song.

 

 

Ciara

 

 

“Shout out to @TiwaSavage on the inspiration and sample used in #FreakMe! She’s a beast! I fell in love with the melody when I first heard it in Africa 3 years ago . So good. #AfroWave,” she wrote.