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Black Eyed Peas in new plagiarism claim
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 29 January 2010
Black Eyed Peas have been accused of plagiarism again. This time rapper Phoenix Phenom, along with songwriter Manfred Mohr, have launched a lawsuit claiming that the group’s track ‘Boom Boom Pow’ is “virtually identical” to their song ‘Boom Dynamite’.
A lawyer representing the pair said: “My clients submitted their copyrighted song ‘Boom Dynamite’ to [the Peas’ record label] Interscope Records after Interscope had shown interest in some of their music, and the Black Eyed Peas later copied the song when they wrote ‘Boom Boom Pow’. A simple listening of the two songs will tell you that the songs are substantially similar, and that the hooks of the two songs are virtually identical in rhythm and lyrics”.
You can test that theory here:
Last year, Black Eyed Peas settled out of court with Adam Freeland after they used his instrumental track ‘Mancry’ as the basis for their song ‘Party All The Time’ without permission. Like this.
