Things are about to get messy for the estate of late Youtube star Messy Mya, most widely known for his vocal inclusion on Beyonce‘s controversial top 5 hit ‘Formation’ (2016).
According to Mya’s family, Bey snatched the vocal clip without their permission and made millions without compensating them. Their response? An 8-figure lawsuit.
Details inside:
“The estate of Anthony Barré — aka Messy Mya — just filed suit against Bey for allegedly using a small, but memorable, piece from his 2010 video “A 27 Piece Huh?” and sprinkling it into her hit song … which has been certified gold.
Barré’s estate claims Beyonce straight-up ripped the deceased artist’s “I like that” phrase without permission … and then went on to make millions off the track. Barré, a YouTube star, was shot and killed in 2010.
Now, the estate is asking for more than $20,000,000 in back royalties and other damages for using some of his final recorded words.”
The suit surfaces nearly a year to the date of the tune’s premiere.
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I swear this chick gets sued for stealing all the time. But people worship her like she’s the most creative artist ever. She is not original at all. Fact.
I’m sure he would’ve loved to be included on Bey’s song .
Exactly…they are just trying to feed of the dead guy.
At RF……& I’m pretty sure if he did want to be included in Flea’s song, It’s no question he would’ve wanted to be compensated. Don’t make up excuses for this bish!! FOH!
Shut the hell up troll….IF U HAD ANY BRAIN, YOU WOULD KNOW THE LINE WAS MESSY MYA. She didn’t steal s***, we all know where it was from. Find something else to hate on…
Good artists copy and excellent ones steal!
NO LIES.
THAT BISH IS STEALING FROM EVERYONE.
SHE WORKS VERY HARD. FACT.
BUT SHE’S A THIEF TOO. FACT.
At GIGI thank you! So tired of people worshiping her like she’s God or the best artist EVER in life. I have not like Fleayonce since her first album…after that she married Dooky lips & turned rachet…..but NO MATTER what her fans are going to ride for her regardless of what she does. SMH!
Yeah..but everyone knew the line was from messy mya tho…SHE NEVER SAID SHE CAME UP WITH THE LINE. ANYWAYS THEY WILL LOOSE THIS CASE LIKE EVERY OTHER CASE BROUGHT BEFORE HER..
Lmao
By that, u mean she ll settle out of court as per usual?
Lol!
Nope…just like the guy that sued her for the lemonade trailer, whose case got THROWN out of court.
If you were a true Beyonce fan you would know that most of the lawsuits against her get settled. You can’t expect people to ignore past lawsuits that were settled like the one from Des’re for Still In Love (Kissing You) and the numerous accusations of her using copywritten material and labeling “copying” as “being inspired by”.
You are incorrect. The Still In Love(kissing You) was greenlighted by Des’re herself. However, she said as long as there was no music video filmed. Beyonce filmed the music video anyways and that’s why she was sued. Not for stealing. Furthermore, all of her other cases have been thrown out. LOOK IT UP!
Another day another lawsuit lol
Another day another win for her…LMAO
They high ball (20 mil really?) cuz they’ll likely get a cpl mil especially if she didn’t ask anyone if she could use it
Lock her UP!
how can you get sued over a video that wasn’t copyrighted tho? he put that s*** on a public domain
Right…LMAO. This will not end well for them.
Copyright applies from the moment a work is fixed in tangible form: book, video, pamphlet, painting etc, whether or not that work is publicly released. If the estate can prove it holds copyright then it has a case against Bey.
Thief once is back with a vengeance.
All those thefts, you’d think she’d get decent albums or single sales.
Smh
Girl…does LARGEDELE still have baby fat on her neck or is it gone?? Asking for a friend.
Adele’s record sales are LARGER than your favs kiii
Stop defending every comment you don’t like. You look stupid. Just chill. It’s just a lawsuit. Beyoncé doesn’t even know your heart is beating, and you just posting away.
Lol
Unlike Thiefyonce, Adele got Talent. She doesn’t need to be naked and push up her p**** on people’s face to distract from the fact rhat she has nothing to offer creatively but being an glorified stripper.
And SHE STILL OUTSOLD BEYONCE S ENTIRE CAREER WITH 1 ALBUM.
21 just passed 35Million album sold worlwide boo.
#NoFlopAllowed
Yet You Couldn’t Even Answer The Question. Thiefyonce Deluded Stans kii!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blue’s net worth is LARGER than CI-DUMMY’S. Shut up…No flop faves allowed here.
Can I please see the receipt that it costed Beyonce and Parkwood $7 Million to air a commercial please. No shade, I REALLY want to know if that’s true!
Thiefyonce***
Stealing from the dead.
That b**** aint never gonna get no shame.
Smh
Is she stealing again?
What else is new.
It would be a go if any of his content was copyrighted.
Messy Mya(May he rest in peace) didn’t know a thing about copyrighting, if he did he would’ve made sure the content he uploaded on YouTube had it.
Seems like his sister is just being greedy.The song came out over a year ago.Why now? She probably won’t get a dime and will be bitching to anyone that listens to her about the high legal bill she’s stuck with.She wants this guy to have writing credits and receive $20Million? Pick your battles wisely.I mean he’s sampled for a couple of seconds.
Any original content created is protected by copyright. You don’t need to copyright anything. Once you create a song, a play, anything, it is intellectual property that has copyright. The only thing you can’t copyright is an idea. Once idea is implemented, it has copyright (unless stated otherwise by a creator).
Actually you do need to copyright your material before uploading it to YouTube should you want to be credited as the creator of the project. YouTube clearly states that in their user agreement contract.
Where Is The Money You Curry Powder Ramen Noodle Headed Lookin A** B*tch Beyblade? Pay up!!
I love Beyonce, but why does she keep getting sued for little dumb, obvious stuff like this? OF COURSE you need to get vocal samples cleared. Why didn’t this happen?
Her team is either too arrogant or too incompetent to properly protect her.
I love when a Stan (stupid fan) goes up and down a post setting at every single comment opposed to their favs. It’s so hilarious
Bit*h stfu. You do the same when it comes to your ugly ass fav.
LMAO JAY’S HOOKER THIEF CAUGHT AGAIN LMAO. BYTCH SHOULD START WEARING A PRISON TETHER ON HER ANKLE SINCE SHE ALWAYS STEALING SHYT, DUMB BYTCH LMFAO.
Beyonce always getting sued and she will win this too! hate to say it but messy mya did not copy right that he wont get anything or his family or whoever trying to sue beyonce
If Freeda got paid for her part then give messy mya family a cut as well.
Adele has more talent than Bey? Lol laugh of the day. Last I checked she can’t dance and bey can hit higher notes so nice try haters. I’d like to see Adele try to do the vocal runs Beyoncé has perfected since the DC era….
Adele outsold Beys entire catalog with just one album. And she could habe laryngitis and still outsing her on ANY day, so just stop.
LMAOO Adele could never outsing Bey, stop the lies. Just because the only thing she can do IS sing, doesn’t make her a better vocalist. Bey would sing her ass under a ditch!!
I don’t know if he’s video’s on YouTube are copyrighted or not, but YouTube clearly states! All copyright handling is solely done by the uploader and creator of the content being posted.
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I highly doubt Beyoncé team failed to credit Mya for his content illegally. This is a woman who gave a 33% writing credit to Animal collective for a line that was SIMILAR to theirs for her song 6-inch.
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My Girls – Animal Collective
“I don’t mean to seem like I care about material things”
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6-Inch Beyoncé ft The Weekend
“Too smart to crave material thing’s”
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Jordan Asher 11%
David Portner 11%
Brian Weltz 11%
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Beyoncé team clearly went the lengths to make sure people were properly credited this time.
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With all that said I do think Messy Mya deserves a cut. It’s his voice, his content (cooywrited or not) he deserves a CHECK! She’s wrong on that part. Can’t defend her there.
Sounds likebana she’s paying homage to him. You do have to do things the right way though. Hopefully they can sit down and come to an agreement.
*sounds like she’s paying homage
stealing songs, buying awards, does this chick do anything legit lmfao
Tsk tsk tsk! Smh… Shameful.
Cant she release an album without any lawsuit? Damn B, well… What else is new, another album, another lawsuit
Queen Of Copyright Infringement.
A song that was so huge it has influenced an entire generation and is song of the year! Wow, A gold plaque! That is amazing.., -_-
I hope her family got paid BIG TIME.
This bish called beyonce build all her career on stealing and cheating.
Beyonce is scum filth
What a loser
this is just sad because she was clearly paying homage to him.
I want to know what black person bugged beyonce to make her copy them. She want to be cool so bad that people believe her skills. I think she should pay homage and pay them for wanting to be like them. Beyonce’s a big liar like a man who plays women. lol
Sueing a pregnant lady over somthing so petty how nice of them.
Beyonce, the placard of white supremwe, hypersexuality and black mediocrity, is a waste of space and should be tarred and feathered and ran back to her creole community
She is a thief, liar, promoter of nonsense, weapon of mass destruction used to pollute and erode our values
She has been used by white suoremists to further THEIR agenda, Becky is superior see your no 1 ‘Black woman’ wants to be white
F that idiot and her equally idiotic shills
The b don’t own shiz, is a s**** and a narcissist, and indented, dang what a combo their dumb just ughhh
And because of pretty privilege black people are blinded and can’t call the lying thieving bush out for what she is
I can
I was raised right, its content of character not the container if character and from all the lies, deceit, back stabbing I could never ride for that bish
Disrespecting her socalled inspiration Tina t
Was just classless and unredeemable
Y’all really wrapped up with that unscrupulous lying blonde
Ughh the whole thing is just bizarre and a testament yo how damaged we are to allow this uneducated disrespectful rude bish occupy our cm unity
Turn the channel, don’t listen or watch none of her stuff its been time for this divisive ‘yellowbone’ to get the f on
First and foremost it is not considered stolen nor is there anything owed to his estate because there was no profit made from his contribution. His “line” was solely used in the music video. It is not featured on the album version nor is the Formation music video on the Lemonade DVD.
So yeah they’ll keep suing and keep losing
I dont think even messy mya owned that… Once you upload to youtube, Doesnt it technically belong to GOOGLE who owns YouTube>?
Smh
Beyonce if you see this i hope it helps your not going to be able to twerk forever and your fans are getting older you should stop with the young stuff and adapt to mothers I know you want to stay on top and have young fans but it’s better if you could be yourself and have fans that like you for you then trying to keep up with the young people it’s better to have fans that will like you forever then have everyone change your hair maybe black or something you can do when you older that’s if you want to be performing forever and still have lasting fans hope this helps much love and congratulations on the twins girly.