Popular American musician Nicki Minaj alongside mega-producer Mike Will Made It have been slammed with a lawsuit by Julius Johnson who is claiming his beat was stolen.
Julius Jonson in the suit claimed that Nicki Minaj stole the beat ‘I Lied’ from her.
According to Johnson, the music playing under the vocals on Nicki’s track from “The Pinkprint” sounds like a carbon copy of a song he created years before she dropped “I Lied.”
In the lawsuit filed on Monday in California, Johnson claimed that Minaj and producer Mike Will Made It’s ballad sounds eerily similar to his song “onmysleeve.”
Johnson added in his lawsuit that his song was published on YouTube in 2011 — three years before “I Lied” was included on Minaj’s album “The Pinkprint.”
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He claims that “associates” or “affiliates” of Minaj, 40, and Mike Will, 34, also had access to the institute’s recording space around that time and allegedly got their hands on his
Johnson now wants the profits that both parties made from the song and is reportedly seeking a court order to either force them to take it down or give him credit and royalties for his contributions.
As at the time of filing in this report, neither Nicki Minaj nor Mike Will Made have reacted to the lawsuit filed by Johnson who also claimed that both “onmysleeve” and “I Lied” “contain substantially identical underlying instrumentation and beat,” as well as “utilize at least the same style instrument bed, rhythm, beats per minute, and song key.”
