NEW YORK – American singer Ariana Grande’s latest single, 7 Rings, may have achieved a high numbers of plays on streaming platform Spotify, but the song hasn’t gone down well with some artists.
Three rappers have come forward to accuse the artist of plagiarism.
Rapper Princess Nokia stated that 7 Rings borrows from her song Mine, incorporating a similar beat and even some lyrics.
“Does that sound familiar to you? ‘Cause that sounds really familiar to me,” she wrote. “Ain’t that the lil song I made about brown women and their hair?”
Another artist, Soulja Boy, has asked Grande for “credit. Period.”, tweeting that 7 Rings sounds like his single, Pretty Boy Swag.
Meanwhile, rapper 2 Chainz has claimed that the song 7 Rings sounds similar to his jingle Spend It.
7 Rings chalked up 14,966,544 global plays on Spotify after it was rolled out last Friday.
That tally easily overtook the previous record of 10,819,009 Spotify streams for All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.
On 7 Rings, which begins with a riff on The Sound Of Music’s My Favourite Things. Grande raps about being able to buy Tiffany rings for her friends because she has a lot of money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYh6mYIJG2Y
According to TMZ sources who were involved in the recording, 7 Rings was not just a random song title.
Shortly after her breakup with Pete Davidson, Ariana reportedly went out with her friends to a jewelry store and bought seven engagement rings for them. The lyrics of 7 Rings also feature references to her breakups, just like Thank U, Next.
Ariana Grande shared that she is “so sorry” to anyone offended by her latest single, “7 Rings.”
