Zakes fumes over song ‘theft’
MUSICIAN and producer Zakes Bantwini is fuming after a Nigerian artist, Dremo, allegedly stole the beat of his 2010 hit Clap Your Hands. Dremo released a new song, Bigger
Meat, the video of which was released on Twitter last week.
Bantwini, who was notified by fans on Twitter, said he was shocked by this and plans to take legal action against Dremo.
“I saw this on Twitter. Someone said to me, Zakes, this is your song. He tagged me and I was like, this is my song,” Bantwini said.
The 38-year-old had initially sent a series of tweets to Dremo appealing to him to acknowledge what he had done.
“@Dremodrizzy +27 (11) 482-1682 🇿🇦 this is my publisher’s numbers ask your team to connect and let’s sort this out brother. I appreciate you showing love to my production but let’s do things right. Bigger Meat is Clap your Hands, a song I did in 2010. Let’s connect & avoid problems.”
“@Dremodrizzy are you going to pretend like you don’t see my tweet? You are going to regret this gesture and courtesy I’m showing you brother, when we don’t hear from you by 5.30pm CAT you’ll have left me with no option but to involve my legal team, your choice #businessofmusic”
Dremo is signed under Davido Music Worldwide, and his music video has 90 600 views.
Bantwini confirmed to The Star that he met with his publishers, and they had decided to give Dremo until close of business yesterday to respond to them.
The song was released under Sony Africa.