Tanzanian music bigwig Diamond Olatnumz has been accused off ripping off Otile Brown and Jovial’s Such Kinda Love in his new song.
The Bongo crooner just released his new stripped down love track, Naanzaje. The release, which albeit taps into the aesthetics of his older music, sounds eerily familiar to Otile and Jovial’s duet, and keen listeners were quick to point that occurrence out.
Naanzaje and Such Kinda Love are both reggaeton midtempo tracks, a sound that seems to swiftly creep its way into the mainstream music scene. Both the songs sound similar to Tanzanian crooner Mario’s song For You and Rayvanny’s popular hit Teamo. The latter was notably the first song in the region among the four to have the reggaeton production elements.
This is definitely not the first time Platnumz has been accused of replicating another artiste’s work. In 2019, as reported by The Sauce Diamond whose real name is Naseeb Abdul was accused of stealing the audio for his song ‘The One’ from Namibian singer King TeeDee.
Namibian fans ganged up on Diamond, accusing him of kicking out the Namibian singer in the song that has gathered over a million views in 17 hours after it was uploaded on YouTube.
Previously, Wasafi artists Diamond and Rayvanny had been under fire for copying the video concept for their hit song ‘Tetema’ from a song titled ‘See You Again’ by Tyler The Creator.
In 2020, the internet easily deciphered that the video to Gere, a collaboration with his Kenyan baby mama Tanasha Donna heavily borrowed from Brazilian singer Iza’s Brisa video. Several scenes from both videos are bona fide proof to that.
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After the matter raised eyebrows, Iza sarcastically called out Diamond affirming he had indeed copied the concept of her video.
Not too long after, Platnumz dropped his hit single Jeje. As reported by The Sauce the video had a uncanny semblance to Nigerian superstar Wiz Kid’s Joro video, with the scene that features a vixen dancing up a storm being the major tell-tale proof that Diamond had been taking the easy way out and copying notes from his fellow artist.
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