T-Pain Accused of Plagiarising From ‘Aashiqui 2’ Song ‘Tum Hi Ho’

Original composer Mithoon is upset over the matter.

US rapper T-Pain has been accused of plagiarising his new single ‘That’s Yo Money’ from the Hindi song ‘Tum Hi Ho’ featured in the 2013 Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur starrer Aashiqui 2. A flute melody used in T-Pain’s song is very similar to the iconic tune from ‘Tum Hi Ho’. The film’s director Mohit Suri was the first to bring attention to the issue and now music composer Mithoon has called out the rapper as well. Check it out yourself.

Dunno why but this seems familiar 🙈🙈🙈 #aashiqui2 #tumhiho @TPAIN https://t.co/69NJvAujsT . It’s a melody from Mithun’s song buddy @Mithoon11 @raiisonai @itsBhushanKumar

— Mohit Suri (@mohit11481) December 15, 2018

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

T-Pain got a lot of attention and trolling from Indian fans after which ‘That’s Yo Money’ has been removed from his YouTube channel. He tweeted about the controversy saying that he did not produce the song and had never heard ‘Tum Hi Ho’ before. He added that it was a small matter and his label was looking into it.

Woke up to getting dragged by brown twitter. Sooooo yea. I definitely didn’t produce this song. Had no idea that was a sample and have never heard the music before I got the beat from the producer. Easy thing to work out. The labels will be in contact. Thanx

— T-Pain (@TPAIN) December 15, 2018

Meanwhile Mithoon told Mumbai Mirror that he checked with T-Series and the tune was not taken with permission. Allegedly the Indian label plans to take legal action.