Willy Paul’s latest hit song that he recently put out on YouTube dubbed ‘Collabo’ has been pulled down from YouTube a few days after it was uploaded on the hitmaker’s official YouTube channel.
According to the record producer behind the record, iLogos Music, who pulled down the song over copyright claim accused the ‘Hallelujah’ hitmaker refused to pay for the song despite both of them coming into an amicable agreement.
iLogos Music was supposed to produce three tracks for Willy Paul for KShs. 25,000 which he did but Willy Paul refused to pay him afterward.
“Willy Paul begged me to produce three tracks for him each for KShs. 25,000 per track for his songs ‘Magnetic’, ‘Digiri’, and his latest single ‘Collabo'” iLogos Music said, “but he has never paid for the tracks plus the production of his projects, he owes me KShs. 180,000.”
“How do you complain about MCSK when you can’t even pay the producer that you work with.” iLogos Music posed on social media.
“Time for change. Some artists need some lessons. This is why Kenya industry is not progressing. We have to stop this.”
The ‘Collabo’ hit song was taken from the upcoming, highly anticipated debut studio album ‘Songs of Solomon’ by Willy Paul.
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“He has refused to communicate,” the record producer who pulled down the song from YouTube said, iLogos Music added, “I reached out to him three times and he said I can do whatever I want. I had to flag his YouTube channel until he clears his debt.”
iLogos Music’s issues with Naiboi
Six months ago, iLogos Music accused fellow record producer and rapper, Naiboi of neglecting to pay him for over 10 songs he produced for him and made a lengthy, social media post explaining how Naiboi real name Michael Kennedy Claver refused to pick his phone calls.
“Hey, this’s Ilogos music. So this is a very sad story. There’s this artist called Naiboi. I produced for him more than 10 songs but as I was expecting payments, this dude seemed to have no intention of paying and some of the tracks have been released.
When I started pushing for my rights of payments the guy never picked my calls or respond to any of my texts. I didn’t want to pick a fight and so I decided to sell the unreleased tracks, one of them was Toto whom the new client was Arrow Bwoy and he paid cash for the project,” read the post in part.
“So this Toto track had a written chorus already on that matter I’m the author of the prehook and hook. Suddenly, this Naiboi guy started to claim the rights of the song, the track he couldn’t pay for,” he said.
Naiboi through his lawyer David Katee has responded to claims that he did not pay for over ten songs producer by ILogos Music
“We have hereby been instructed by our client to demand the following from you; that you cease and desist from making any defamatory statements against him on any platform; That you furnish him with all his content in your possession with immediate effect,” reads part of the demand letter dated April 6, 2020.
“In 2017, you produced a sound recording for him in which he authored and recorded a chorus for the same but this also you claimed was lost with the rest but it resurfaced last week when a song was released by another artist.
“It is from the foregoing that our client states that you lied about losing his songs and you went ahead and sold the same recording and the chorus to another artist by the name Arrow Bwoy knowing very well that it belonged to our client.
Arrow Bwoy went ahead and did the verses and released the song which premiered last week containing the same sound recording and chorus but going by the name Toto,” read part of the letter
