Nigerian singer Omah Lay has disclosed that a fellow artist allegedly stole the concept for his upcoming album after he shared it with them in hopes of collaborating.
Instead of working together, the colleague released an album using Omah Lay’s idea, leaving him no choice but to re-record his own album.
Omah Lay shared this frustrating experience on the Zach Sang Show, revealing how the incident disrupted his creative process.
The Soso crooner said: “My song ‘Holy Ghost’ is a new sound. I was going to make the whole album with the new sound but along the line, I changed my mind.”
“I shared an idea with a certain artist and the artist went ahead and put out an album with my idea and I had to re-record my album.
“He came to me and I accepted for us to collaborate. Of course, it’s an artist that I love. And I told him where I’m headed with the sound. Five months later, he put out an album with exactly all the same sound that I shared with him.
“I had to go back and remake my album which is actually going to be the greatest album of all time in Afrobeats history.”