Kcee’s Five Star Music at War with Mavin Records

Rumors are making the rounds that Don Jazzy’s Mavin Records and Kcee’s Five Star Music are currently at logger heads over allegations of intellectual theft (musically of course).

Have you listened to the latest song “Jantamanta” by the Mavin stars hitting the airways? Then you wouldn’t deny the striking similarities in the concept and sound with that of Five Star Music’s “Ebeano.”

To further compound the controversy trailing both songs, they were released hours after each other.

According to reports, barely 3 hours after Mavin Boss, Don Jazzy released the “Jantamanta” track; Five Star Music started promoting their latest hit track “Ebeano.”

The Jantamanta track features all the Mavin Singers, from Don Jazzy himself, down to the latest trio, Di’ja, Korede Bello and Reekado Banks. The track also features Tiwa Savage, D’Prince and Dr Sid.

Ebeano on the other hand, features, Kcee, Harrysong and Skibi, with the sound of both noticeably alike. If you have listened to both songs, unless you’re deaf, you will observe the similarity too good to be a mere coincidence.

During a brief chat with NET, Kcee was lost for words when he was asked to talk about the reason both songs had too many similarities. He noted that such coincidences occur in the music industry. Hmmm, really?

However it has been alleged that Five Star Music allegedly stole the beat and concept from a snippet that was released online by Don Jazzy months ago.

Mavin Records apparently got wind of the fact that Five Star Music was using their melody and were going to drop their song soon, so Don Jazzy pushed the released date forward and dropped the track online with series of trends pushing the song across the country.

Apparently immediately the culprits learnt that Don Jazzy had dropped Jantamanta they also hurriedly dropped theirs including a video making it look like the both songs came out at the same time while Mavin Records took their time in shooting their own comic video.

Mavin Records have not called out Five Star Music over this alleged theft, but there are reports that artistes from the two record labels don’t see eye to eye.

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