Nigerian artist Omah Lay has claimed that a fellow musician, with whom he had discussed concepts for his upcoming album, appropriated his ideas to create his own project.
He revealed that he initially shared these ideas in the spirit of collaboration, only for the other artist to subsequently release an album featuring the same concepts.
During an appearance on the Zach Sang Show, Omah Lay expressed that this experience prompted him to re-record his own album.
“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,” he said.
“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.”