Somebody Bit Me! The "Whatcha Say" Controversy!

So I made this song "Whatcha Say" back in late 2007 and its pretty much been on my MySpace since then. It was probably one of the dopest and deepest songs I've ever written. I sampled the beat from the Imogen Heap song "Hide and Seek" and there are basically two parts of the beat and two parts of the song. The first part kinda builds the whole mood and the tenseness, then when the beat switches at right around 2:00 the whole song changes. The original song that I sampled from is a completely a cappella song, so all the instrumentation and stuff I did was original. Well basically, this dude put out a song with the same title earlier this year and when I heard it I was like "ummm, okay, thats cool, he's using the same sample" lol... and it was cool, but then when the sample cut out (like mine did, lol) the chord progression and everything was quite similar. Now I'm not saying its a bad song or anything, but it just sounds like mine ^_^

So check out mine... and the part that they kinda bit starts right around 2:00,

This is his version, its produced by JR Rotem, the same dude that produced a bunch of Sean Kingston's stuff, he's dope, but in this case his dopeness is not that much to where he can bite my stuff, lol...



you can check him out on myspace at... http://myspace.com/JasonDerulo or on twitter @JasonDerulo

Anyways, check it out and see if you can see the similarities!

Illy!