Childish Gambino is being sued over claims that he stole the Grammy award-winning song This Is America from another artist. Emelike Nwosuocha, known as Kidd Wes, has blamed Gambino, real name is Donald Glover, for copying his single Made in America.
The artist claims Gambino’s This is America’is a copy of his track, which was released on SoundCloud in 2016 and registered with the US Copyright Office in May 2017.
According to court documents filed in New York, he said the “lyrical theme, content and structure” of the two songs’ choruses are “glaringly similar. ”The rapper also employed a musicologist to compare the two tracks, who concluded that “these similarities are likely not coincidences”, the court documents added.
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