Good Good productions has broken their silence on accusations of stealing Notnice Record’s smash hit ‘El Chapo Riddim’.
Following the release of their new ‘Life’s Path Riddim’, Dancehall artiste Popcaan and producer Ainsley ‘Notnice’ Morris called out the record for allegedly jacking ‘El Chapo’.
However speaking on the ongoing saga, label CEO Evan Powell, popularly known as Zum, refuting the claims saying he had ‘Life’s Path Riddim’ from early 2016.
“I have riddims for three, four, five years and when I feel like release dem, I release dem. I was going to release this [Life’s Path] riddim after the Cure Pain riddim, but it had the same kind of groove and so I waited,” he said. “If you do your research and listen to ‘Cure Pain Riddim’, you will see that my melody for Life’s Path was similar to that so if anybody copying anybody, it’s him [Notnice],” Zum added.
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When questioned about the reason for his delay in releasing the controversial riddim, Zum said it was due to the success of ‘Cure Pain’
“When I was ready to release a next riddim, the timing wasn’t right for the melody and so I changed it and released the Money Mix riddim; that’s the one Yanique is on with ‘Lifestyle’,” he added.
According to Zum, he wasn’t aware of ‘El Chapo’ until Dancehall fans began to debate about the similarities between the two projects.
The project made it clear that he had no reason for stealing from Notnice Records because he is in a league of his own citing that from his last three riddims, he landed about eight hits on each of them.
“Why would I copy a riddim with just two songs?” Zum questioned, “If I was going to copy anybody, I would copy myself. I feel like it’s even a waste of time to even be talking about this because we a talk bout a riddim weh only have two songs on it, it don’t even have no hits. Go look a hit riddim and stop talk bout people a copy you,” he added.
