Clement Ige, the manager of music living legend, King Sunny Ade, has accused new generation artistes of sampling the juju musician’s songs without permission or credit.

Ige said this while speaking at Goldberg’s Ariya Repete Roundtable Discourse in Abeokuta. Ige, who has worked as manager for KSA for nearly forty years and is also an Executive Director at Culture FM, Ondo said such is not tolerated in saner climes.

He further accused the hip-pop artistes of misusing the stolen lyrics. He pointed out that rapper Olamide’s usage of makole marale in his hit single Eleda Mi was wrong. He wondered, how one would build a house before buying a land.

He said,

“They use the English language to speak Yoruba. Like the young man who sang ‘makole marale.’ How do you build a house before buying a land?” he asked. Many of them don’t give credit to the original composer of the song they adopt. They just sing it without seeking permission. That’s a copyright infringement. It’s not done in developed societies.

Till today, Small Doctor didn’t get our permission before and after singing ‘ijó tí m’ojó l’àná, tí wọn n’pariwo, oni nkọ, ola nkọ.’ And many of them are guilty of this.

The Davido that used Sunny’s lyrics in his song didn’t even get it right and that’s because he didn’t ask for permission. If he did, we would have corrected him. What is ‘Kuluso ewe, agbagba ewe…?’ The line is actually ‘Seleru agbo, agbara agbo’. I know because I co-wrote the song!”