The #Ugesi Creators Are Being Accused Of Intellectual Property Theft

Last week Friday Ph, Makwa, August Child, Maraza and Kwesta collaborated on "Ugesi." Since then, the three collaborators have been accused by another rapper of having bitten his song. Kingv058 claims that he registered a song, titled "Nokwatja ka Gesi," with SAMRO. He called on the royalties collection organization for assistance in a tweet which eventually garnered a response from Maraza. 

Please forgive us owner of the word “uGesi” ????⚡️ ????????. Forgive us! Your inventions are just too cool. I also apologize on behalf of Eskom for selling ur product! Now we know why there’s load shedding. It’s coz they’re stealing ???? https://t.co/C4R57lrlWf

— MarazA #KOROBELA (@Marazamc) May 22, 2019

To the above tweet, Kingv058 replied with a tweet of his own. Unfortunately, the song that King described could not be found for analysis, so for the time being Tweeps will have to conclude what's happening for themselves. 

Since you are working for SAMRO???????? and Eskom apology???????? accepted wish you all the best with the song hope you continue stealing power frow ekasi???? https://t.co/QHiQvrnpyv

— Kingv_058 (@KingV_058) May 23, 2019