Remember the song, ‘Tum Hi Ho‘ from Aashiqui 2? Of course you do. While it was an enjoyable melody, it soon became a pain in the ass after every second person you knew used it as their freaking ringtone.
Tum Hi Ho had become so popular that if it had released in recent times, Musically Tik Tok would have been full of people lip syncing that shit till kingdom come.
Well, it looks like the song has made it to the US of A. To be a little more specific, into rapper T-Pain’s song, That’s Yo Money.
One more surprise before the year’s over #ThatsYoMoney out now 💰 https://t.co/2ahN7kXenv pic.twitter.com/gMWen2BReK
— T-Pain (@TPAIN) December 14, 2018
The song that was released on the 13th of December has been taken off YouTube after T-Series, which owns the rights to the song, complained of copyright infringement, Mumbai Mirror reported.
Indian Twitter users meanwhile made T-Pain quite aware of the situation with a barrage of tweets.
@TPAIN yes the way u have used it its really not correct its better u create original work this song is so close to us and @Mithoon11 spends years for creating his work plz do not use it in this way may d lord give u wisdom
— Resham Talwar (@Rj_Resham) December 15, 2018
Lmao I was singing to aashiqui in the background the whole time i swear
— divita (@divitaloveshawn) December 17, 2018
Hello @TPAIN , if u are a hard working & passionate musician then would request u to kindly remove the instrumental music played here which is #tumhiho & actually owned by @Mithoon11 .
Mithoon’s passion & hard work results in such brilliant original tunes.Sure u can do the same— Sumeet Basu (@sumeetbasu) December 16, 2018
T-Pain has also responded to the tweets and the entire controversy, saying that he had never heard the music and was introduced to the beat by his producer.
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
However, Mithoon, the composer of ‘Tum Hi Ho‘ had told Mumbai Mirror that T-Series was looking to take legal action.
