Nicki Minaj Is Being Sued For Stealing 'Starships'

Pop star Nicki Minaj is being sued for allegedly stealing the melody for her hit song 'Starships'.

Nicki, along side four other parties, are being sued by Chicago artist Clive Tanaka, claiming they lifted elements of his 2011 track 'Neu Chicago.' Clive says he noticed the similarities in the tracks when he posted a mash-up of the two songs on his Soundcloud.

via Chicago Tribune:

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, September 10 in Chicago, claims that Tanaka’s track already had hundreds of thousands of online views and plenty of radio plays before “Starships” was written in 2012. As of today, “Neu Chicago” exceeds 100,000 plays between YouTube and Vimeo. Tanaka’s lawyer Christopher Niro says that “Neu Chicago” was used in commercial campaigns in Sweden, where Red One and the other three collaborators, Carl Falk, Wayne Hector, and Rami Yacoub, are based. “They had a very good opportunity to hear it,” Niro is quoted as saying.

The mash up:
 


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