Chris Brown and Drake have reportedly been sued for copyright infringement after being accused of stealing elements of their “No Guidance” collaboration. According to TMZ, singer Mr. Cooper and producer Drum’n Skillz — also known as Brandon Cooper and Timothy Valentine — claim “No Guidance” copied their own song “I Love Your Dress” and are seeking big damages.
In court documents, Cooper and Valentine claim their track dropped three years before Chris Brown and Drake’s “No Guidance,” which arrived in June 2019 and appeared on Breezy’s Indigo album. They say an analysis of the “No Guidance” beat, lyrics, hook and rhythmic structure proves it was copied or at least principally derived from “I Love Your Dress.”
The lawsuit points out “I Love Your Dress” containing the lyrics, “She got it, she got it” 16 times, with “No Guidance” mentioning “You got it, girl, you got it” at least 11 times. Not only that, but Mr. Cooper and Drum’n Skillz claim Chris Brown and Drake taunted them with the “Flew the coop” line, which Cooper says is a reference to his nickname, Coop.
“No Guidance” peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was nominated for Best R&B Song at the 2020 Grammy Awards. The song has over 693 million streams on Spotify, with the music video also racking up 373 million YouTube views.
“We’ve come together before and tried to link and make music and I think we were always kind of forcing it,” Drake told Rap Radar about Chris Brown in December 2019. “I think there was always resentment on both sides. You know, really at the end of the day when you kind of step away from it and break it down you start to feel silly ’cause it’s over girl stuff, you know? But obviously, that can snowball into real shit and that’s what happened in this situation.”
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He added, “I think we just both grew up to the point that that person that was in the middle of us is like, no longer a part of either of our lives currently and I have the utmost love and respect for [Rihanna]. I think of her as family more than anything.”
Listen to “I Love Your Dress” above and “No Guidance” below.
Ummm… Idk how Drum’n Skillz will win that one. It don’t even sound like they even borrowed “swag” from Mr. Cooper lol. It’s the Blurred Lines case all over again. Smh
Umm Newsflash the Gaye Family won the Blurred Lines lawsuit lol.
definitely far from the blurred lines case. the Thicke song was CLEARLY “based” on Marvin’s joint, while this one is a FAR reach.
this shit is a SERIOUS reach. 3 words (well, 2 of which were used by drake + chris), very common words at that? not even sung the same way? FOH
good acting.
Far out, listening to that made me think I could become a rapper that was shit sorry but expect these sort of comments when your suing 2 big time rappers for copy right, I’ve never heard of mr cooper seems like a way to get a payout and name recognised but personally I’d never listen to that song again. I’m pretty sure flew the coop could be hitting at a Aventador coupe I find it hard to think of reasons why Chris brown and drake would taunt this dude who has no threat to over powering them in the music industry ? be a interesting case that’s for sure
Who cares about these satanic women beaters!!!?