A certain fellow, with the monicker Wise Kid, has come under
scrutiny after revealed to have illicitly profited by uploading songs of
Afrobeats star, Wizkid, on multiple streaming platforms.
Wise Kid is accused to have allegedly raked in the sum of
$73,170 monthly since October 2020 by uploading Wizkid’s recent album, Made In
Lagos on Apple Music, Amazon, Shazam, and Tidal.
An album uploaded by Wise Kid on the streaming platforms is
titled “Lasgidi Made,” a nominal alteration of the original “Made In Lagos” by
Wizkid. But despite the change in title, all the songs contained in the album
are songs by Wizkid, including Essence, Ginger, Grace, No Stress.
Wise Kid also uses similar social media handles to Wizkid. On Twitter, he is @wisekidaya, whereas Wizkid goes by @wizkidayo.
Wise Kid drew attention to himself after he tweeted a
now-deleted screenshot of an Apple Music analytics which he captioned “On God.”
The screenshot showed that in the past 4 weeks he’s enjoyed 9.3 million views,
133.6k average daily listeners, and 1.2k song purchases.
Wise Kid has denied the accusation of copyright
infringement. He tweeted, “I’m just an upcoming artist I know nothing about
this and please am not the one distributing Wizkid album on Apple music.”
He also claimed that Freeme Digital, a music distribution
digital company, handles the distribution of his songs.
The artiste has now deactivated his Twitter account and has just changed his Instagram handle to Ayaboyofficial from “wisekidaya”, a copycat of “wizkidayo”.
However, Freeme Digital has countered Wise Kid’s tweet by
saying: “We did NOT distribute his ‘Lasgidi Made’ album and have only
distributed his old content. We will see him and everyone else involved in this
lie and defamation in court.”
Freeme Digital also said that it will be deleting the rest
of Wisekid’s content on its platform.
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