Bad Bunny loses a millionaire lawsuit against rapper Missy Elliot for plagiarism in the song “Safaera”, which he released in collaboration with reggaeton artists Jowell, Randy and Ñengo Flow.
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Bad Bunny was sued because “Safaera” was very successful with more than 320 million YouTube views.
Bad Bunny loses millionaire lawsuit against rapper Missy Elliot for plagiarism in the song “Safaera”, which he launched in collaboration with reggaeton artists Jowell, Randy and Ñengo Flow.
american rapper Missy Elliotwho was recently part of the Super Bowl halftime show, sued the Puerto Rican artist for using an original arrangement of the song “Get ur freak on”, which was written by herself and produced by Timbaland in 1995 and was part of the album “Rare essence”.
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With this lawsuit, Elliot gets 90% of the profits from the song, while Bad Bunny will only get 1% of the profits from the hit song, which alone on YouTube already has more than 320 million views and on Tik Tok it was one of the most famous trends during the beginning of the quarantine.
It was precisely the magnitude of his success that caused Elliot to sue for having used parts of his song “Get ur freak on” without any change. Given this, the bad rabbit will also have to pay a large sum of money for copyright, a sum that is still unknown how much it will be.
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Like Bad Bunny, Jowell, Randy and Ñengo Flow will also receive only 1% profit from “Safaera”. “We went down with that song, we had to give it up,” Jowell assured for the YouTube channel MoluscoTV.