American rapper T-Pain accused of copying Arijit Singh's song from Aashiqui 2; gets slammed by netizens

Here is how Twitterati slammed T-Pain for allegedly copying the popular Bollywood song..

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New Delhi: American rapper T-Pain faced the heat of Bollywood lovers after he allegedly used the tune of the popular Indian track Kyuki Tum Hi Ho in his newest release titled “That’s yo money.” As the rapper shared his latest track, a recurring flute melody sounding very similar to the popular Hindi track caught the attention of the netizens who accused T-Pain of lifting the tune from the Bollywood song. The song is originally sung by singer Arijit Singh and is from the movie “Aashiqui 2”. Following the hullabaloo on the internet, Mithun Sharma the composer of the song commented that the tune that Pain was claiming to be his, sounded starkly similar to the work of Mithun. He said that “the melody that you have used in your new song is my original work for a previously released Hindi film..the Label is looking into this.” read his tweet. The song was then removed from YouTube. After the issue caught media’s attention, T-Pain’s tweet that had the song attached to it was removed from his official Twitter handle. Here is how the Bollywood lovers reacted to it:

Sir, the melody that you have used in your new song is my original work for a previously released Hindi film..The Label is looking into this.#tumhiho #Aashiqui2 https://t.co/5fnDf4sfg7

— Mithoon (@Mithoon11) December 15, 2018

He did a thing. Tum hi ho and T-Pain, who’d have thought it’d work so well?! ????#tumhiho #tpain #thatsyomoney https://t.co/wYPllnqcDc

— anjali (@eleventhxrtysix) December 15, 2018

Copy of Tum Hi Ho ????

— Prince Chauhan (@Prince1Chauhan) December 16, 2018

Lmao. T Pain accused of plagiarising new song from Aashiqui 2's Tum Hi Ho. World, why you so strange? https://t.co/FfmvJYdbNx

— Divyani Rattanpal (@Divyanie) December 18, 2018

???? pic.twitter.com/mqV4AFNuip

— Shivam Singh (@Beingshivam9) December 18, 2018

Sir, the instrumental is simply a copy of #TumHiHo

— Md Dipty Prodhan Dipto (@dipty98) December 15, 2018

Hella just ruined an amazing Bollywood song ????

— Megha Sharma (@meghasharma30) December 17, 2018