Jacquees Sent Cease & Desist Letter for Remixing Ella Mai's Song

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Now I’m lying :heh:

You mad af

Take this “Jacquees” nikka dikk out your ass and pull your skirt down.

Point is, label owns the music, not Jacquees. He ain’t on that label, he doesn’t write for them, he doesn’t sing for them. Make your own shyt

You are lying lmao you can’t even admit you quoted me first with an essay to my ONE sentence response about her coming up off breezy

Emotional :mjlol:
 

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She literally blew up doing Chris Brown covers lol

They weren’t on the radio or being promoted.

So did Swae Lee...


So did Tory Lanes (who’s a biting ass nikka himself)

Basically, hold your own nuts and get poppin by your own music. This is what Ella chick and her label did. No one knew about this chick before the song.

Point is, no one should be mad or surprised by this. This is hers and the labels property.

And this has been done before. For example, Maxwell redid “This Womans Work” to absolute perfection. Thing is, he got permission.. he also didn’t recreate the song as soon as it came out he recreated it later down the road and was in an entire different genre.

Regardless of he’s making money or not, hold your own nuts the label can put a stop to your shyt if they want. Tpain had a different song that sounded similar with different lyrics but was a clear “parody” if you want to call it that. Ceelo did the same thing with Redbone but BOTH songs didn’t go anywhere except youtube.

Be an Ella mai stan brehs lol
 
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This reeks of insecurity all the label’s behalf. Once in a blue moon talent actually comes up in a discussion pertaining to the music business. If Ella had an indelible sound then jacquees is no threat and of no consequence. Remember when Wayne did “A Milli”? Remember when Ross did “BMF”? Remember when Snoop did “Gin & Juice”? Anybody else could have released their own version in a day but the original would always stand alone

Her & her label got caught trying to spin some tepid bullshyt
 

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And another thing. Tpain is an established artist. Him doing a cover of a song is like an honor because he doesn’t actually do it a lot. Same when Ceelo did Redbone, kinda the same when Wayne did Dej Loaf (such a stupid analogy)... but those songs make you listen to the original.

Even doing covers of Chris Brown isnt nothing special because Chris isn’t an up and coming artists (see Justin Beiber)



Jaquees is an up and coming artist doing a cover of another up and coming artist... FOH:camby:
 

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Mai is fukking trash. Imagine having your song upstaged by a c level midget singer
 

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I already brought up Rhianna... no response


And I’m definitely AAgang but this is music we’re talking about. If you getting mad at her then get mad for any other non-AA that made hit music in America and stop listening to their shyt as well.

She made a hit and it got buzz... now a nikka trying to remake the hit she just made and its taking away from her buzz and the label is saying fukk that. Tpain and Plies aren’t really RnB singers so no one cares.

the general concept of trying to protect a microwaving artist's buzz makes sense from a label standpoint, but judging from the backlash, looks like they went about it completely wrong even if jaquees was doing too much/trying to monetize. these cease and desist letters only avoid backlash if you aim them at an artist bigger than you.

now her crafted image goes from the cute, alt r&b chick to snake/diva for people. should've just tried to hop on a collab. i don't think it'll hurt her too much long-term, but still.

on the flip, people reference beyonce's and the yeezy / the weeknd remixes. honestly i really think if the weeknd version blew, hov/bey would've had no problem throwing out that cease and desist :sas2:
 

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the general concept of trying to protect a microwaving artist's buzz makes sense from a label standpoint, but judging from the backlash, looks like they went about it completely wrong even if jaquees was doing too much/trying to monetize. these cease and desist letters only avoid backlash if you aim them at an artist bigger than you.

now her crafted image goes from the cute, alt r&b chick to snake/diva for people. should've just tried to hop on a collab. i don't think it'll hurt her too much long-term, but still.

on the flip, people reference beyonce's and the yeezy / the weeknd remixes. honestly i really think if the weeknd version blew, hov/bey would've had no problem throwing out that cease and desist :sas2:

I doubt the bolded

I honestly haven’t heard a single soul talk about this shyt except on here. Not on social media, not on a podcast, nothing...


And honestly, regardless of how it looks they’re in the right. You can’t be jacking an up and coming artists song if you’re an up and coming artist yourself. Especially when NONE of your projects got this amount of buzz. He should pull it out of respect for her regardless if it’s hotter.. they supposed to be cool, right?

I’m sure she actually doesn’t care but its a label thing and ethically correct.

And I agree 100% about the Weeknd when he was doing covers. Thing is, The Weeknd was an up and coming artist... those others weren’t. It’s different when you cober songs from people who already got platinum plaques but I still think they would’ve filed that paperwork if it blew up.

Prince for example didn’t allow ANYONE to put out covers of his shyt for a long time
 
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