Controversy is trailing Emma Nyra‘s new single, ‘Work Hard’ few days after its release as a music producer, Samson Ohda known as OD Beats has accused her of stealing the song.
In promotion of her forthcoming EP, Love Vs Money, Nyra released ‘Work Hard’ as the project’s lead single on Monday, July 18.
OD Beats is however claiming to have originally created the beat to the song but was subsequently denied payment and credit. He released a statement along with a clip of the said studio session with the singer.
His statement reads: ‘On June 29th Emma Nyra was in the studio with Samson Ohda aka OD Beats when he creatively produced and composed the reggae/afropop influenced beat for ‘Work Hard’ off her released Ep. After OD beats had been contracted (Verbally/Text Messages) to produce her EP, shortly after started having difficulty with payment from her camp. Subsequently after trying to make a deposit for OD to send over some tracks, they started making up excuses which lead to her stealing the intellectual property in a sordid attempt to recreate an idea idea she did not pay for and sell it of as having produced by another Houston based producer (Tag on the track) in a show of spite.
‘My reason for highlighting and sharing this story is to touch on the manner producers are often taking advantage of when they try to work with an estab artist to a mutual end. I hear these stories countlessly and it’s devastating to the psyche when someone puts his heart and soul into something and someone else feels entitled enough to steal your efforts with impunity. In an industry that’s already lacking compensatory structure, I can only imagine how producers in Nigeria and other countries are being taken advantage of; which is not to say all artists are that way.’
There has been no reaction from Emma Nyra yet.
