The immense success of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” (2016 Grammy Award for Record of the Year, over one billion views on YouTube) has not come without the inevitable lawsuit.
The Sequence, one of the first female rap groups, are putting it in the air that their 1979 song “Funk You Up” was used as “inspiration” for the recent mega hit, TMZ reports.
The group, consisting of Angie Stone (of chart-topping R&B fame) Cheryl the Pearl and Blondie (not “Rapture” singer Debbie Harry) had their rep Kali Bowyer threaten the lawsuit in the media as they note the similarities in the hooks “funk you right on up” portion.
Strangely enough, no lawsuit has been filed but both parties fall into the ordeal with reputations that are less than stellar. In May of 2015, all five writers of The Gap Band’s 1979 hit “Oops Upside Your Head” were given credit for “Uptown Funk” after a terse yet brief battle over particular lyrics in the song. And nearly nine years ago, Bowyer was found to be lying about Chris Rock fathering her child after a sensational blitz through the media.
Both songs can be found below for a side-by-side analysis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_gF1v1xZDc
One question ….WHO DID NOT KNOW THIS, well besides young immature talent-less young thug fanboys??
This whole song nd vibe was a RIP OFF
The songs sound nothing alike…
Bruno Mars, do you only perform black music, like funk? or do you perform polka music as well?
Polka, polka – John Candy the GOAT
I’m surprised they are not dyeing Dr Dre for stealing their chorous and using it in keep their heads ringing
They recieved royalties from that
Reaching
Malvin gaye family just dont know what they started.
Is there any song Uptown Funk didn’t jack? That’s three songs now.
lol people are so petty.. unless you create your own genre of music you literally are an imitation of something.. i bet you anything i can find a song that sounds like this girls song before she dropped hers…2 different songs, similar style..its funk music lol
Yeah, Bruno Mars…come off that money. Your writers know what they were doing. Do your history and make sure you get things cleared, hints why Big Krit has a hard time releasing albums because of this same situation. But the difference Krit goes and gets his items clears.