Guru caught again in 'song stealing' accusations

The issue of song-stealing is not new to the
industry and so long as the industry continues to
fledge, accusations of artistes stealing songs will
also persist but it is worrying if one name is always
mentioned anytime the issue of song-stealing
comes up.
In less than a month, rapper Guru has been
accused by another upcoming artistes for pilfering
his song. After songs like ‘Nkwadaa Nkwadaa’,
‘Boys Abre’ and ‘Azonto Boys’ received rave
reviews, the artiste has released new singles and
two of such singles have come under serious
questioning.
On Hitz FM last week, K9, manager of budding
artiste Nautica, accused Guru of stealing
‘Oboompa’, a song recorded by his artiste – which
they have prepped for promotion in the coming
days.
According to K9, when ‘Oboompa’ was done, it
needed some major boost and so Management
decided to approach Guru for that feature. Guru was
said to have listened to the song, agreed to do the
feature but requested for an amount of GHC3, 000
– an amount K9 said was too exorbitant to pay.
According to him, they shelved the idea of a Guru-
feature after he requested for that amount and he
was overly shocked when he was prompted to a
website only to realize that the song has been
posted there with Guru as the owner of the song.
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When Guru was contacted, he claimed that he got
the song from some boys from Brong Ahafo. He
heard the song, liked it and featured the boys on it
and made it his own.
Right before this accusation, another young rapper,
Osagy Osagy brazenly accused Guru for pilfering
his song ‘Bossu’ which has the same arrangements
chorus settings as one of Guru’s latest works also
titled ‘Bossu'.
Osagy claimed that he sent his song to some
industry ‘heavyweights’ for support, approval and
possible feature on the song and Guru was one of
the people he sent his song to. According to him, he
was overly aghast when he heard the release of
‘Bossu’ on air as a song belonging to Guru.
Guru was not available for commentary on the
accusation leveled at him by the young rapper who
resides in the Volta Region.
Guru is no stranger to issues of song-stealing. Last
year, young and enterprising act, Tee Phlow
accused the rapper of stealing the concept of
‘Alkaida’, claiming he (Guru) was the first artiste to
come out with the song with the title when indeed,
he (Tee Phlow) released his ‘Alkaida’ song – right
after the GhOne organized hip hop completion “The
Next Big Thang’, a competition he placed 2nd.