{"id":45081,"date":"2024-08-23T09:40:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=45081"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:40:21","slug":"omah-lay-accuses-colleague-of-stealing-his-album-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/23\/omah-lay-accuses-colleague-of-stealing-his-album-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Omah Lay Accuses Colleague of Stealing His Album Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abbah<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian singer Omah Lay has accused a fellow artist of stealing the concept for his next album. According to Omah Lay, he had shared the idea with this unnamed colleague as part of a proposed collaboration, only for the artist to release an album featuring the same concept.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on the Zach Sang Show, Omah Lay revealed that this betrayal forced him to re-record his own album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy song \u2018Holy Ghost\u2019 represents a new sound,\u201d he explained. \u201cOriginally, I planned to build the entire album around this new sound, but I had to rethink my approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omah Lay continued, \u201cI shared my vision with an artist I admired and trusted. Five months later, he released an album with the exact same sound. As a result, I had to start over and re-record my album, which I believe will be the greatest album in Afrobeats history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abbah Nigerian singer Omah Lay has accused a fellow artist of stealing the concept for his next album. According to Omah Lay, he had shared the idea with this unnamed colleague as part of a proposed collaboration, only for the artist to release an album featuring the same concept. In an interview on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45084,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45081\/revisions\/45084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}