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Chris Brown and Drake ripped off an earlier track when they wrote their 2019 collaborative song ‘No Guidance’, according to singer Braindon Cooper and producer Timothy Valentine. Not only that, but ‘No Guidance’ includes a sneaky lyric alluding to the audacious song-theft, it’s alleged.
Cooper and Valentine reckon that ‘No Guidance’ lifts from their 2016 track ‘I Love Your Dress’. In fact, according to their new lawsuit, “by every method of analysis, ‘No Guidance’ is a forgery – copied from plaintiffs, who wrote, recorded, and published their original song ‘I Love Your Dress’ approximately three years earlier”.
Beyond the musical similarities between ‘No Guidance’ and ‘I Love Your Dress’, Cooper and Valentine say they also have evidence that Brown and Drake could have accessed their track – which was posted to SoundCloud in 2016 and then distributed to all the streaming services in early 2019 – before starting work on their collaboration.
Cooper says that in March 2019 he was approached by an A&R representative associated with Drake’s then label Cash Money Records who wanted to know if the musician had any unreleased music he could get access to.
Although Cooper didn’t send any unreleased tracks, he did direct him to his then new album ‘My Life In Black & White’, which includes ‘I Love Your Dress’. All of which possibly suggests that people linked to Drake – and by association Brown – were aware of Cooper’s music, including the supposedly ripped off track.
As for this sneaky ‘No Guidance’ lyric that allegedly alludes to Brown and Drake knowingly ripping off Cooper’s work, that goes “flew the coop at seventeen, no guidance”. Because Cooper is often known as ‘Coop’, see? Which seems a bit of a stretch, but, reckons the lawsuit, that lyric is “a disguised reference to Cooper, which defendants used mockingly after stealing substantial portions of the work created by Cooper”.
It remains to be seen how Brown and Drake respond to the song-theft claims, though Cooper and Valentine say they want 50% of the rights and royalties in the duo’s 2019 hit.
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