Love Island’s Chris Hughes and Kem Cetinay released their much anticipated single, Little Bit Leave It, this week – and it shot to number one on iTunes in just three hours.
But some people were not too pleased with the newfound rap artists…
Grime star Lethal Bizzle has spoken out saying he wants his cut as the Love Island duo used his catchphrase, ‘leave it yeah’, without crediting him.
Posting on his Instagram, he said: “They couldn’t leave me alone innit. Kem and your other brother – I don’t what your name is – Ross? I don’t know what you’re called. You, you’ve taken my phrase. Cool, I want everyone to use my phrase. Everyone knows I make up words. I want people to use them. I don’t mind.
“But when you want to do a song and make money from it, I have a problem with that. So we need to have a conversation.”
He later tweeted that he had been asked by the label to feature on the song, but he turned it down – and was never told what the title of the song was.
He tweeted: “The label asked me if I wanna jump on the Kemp & Ross new single, I declined. I didn’t hear it or know the title was #LittleBitLeaveIt”.
When asked about Lethal Bizzle's comments on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show this morning, Kem said: “It was like a fanboy moment – I was just happy he’d tweeted us. We're amateurs, it's our first song - we didn't even think about the legal side of it. I've just said speak to the label, we don't want no beef. I think it's all light-hearted banter."
Lethal Bizzle first emerged on the scene in 2002 as part of More Fire Crew as a grime MC. He released a track in 2011 called Leave It Yeah – and it has since become one of his well-known phrases.
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