It’s apparently ‘new year, new trouble’ for Skales as he is currently embroiled in a lawsuit filed by the estate of the late Abami eda, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
Skales was sued for using lines from the late Fela’s ‘Tears & Blood and ‘Roforofo Fight’ in the remix of his new song ‘Temper’ which features Burna Boy.
The infringement has resulted in YouTube immediately taking down the video.
In the song, where Fela sang “Hey, yeah/Everybody run, run, run/Everybody scatter scatter/Some people lost some bread“, Burna and Skales replaced it with “Hey, yeah/Everybody run, run, run/Everybody scatter scatter/Hey, yeah dance don catch fire/Hey, yeah boys don start to maya.”
This constituted an infringement on the copyright of the late singer according to his estate.
Both parties are however reportedly working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.