Tum Hi Ho ruined by rapper T-Pain? YouTube pulls down video

T-Pain is under plagiarism attack for plucking a tune from one of Bollywood’s favourite, Tum Hi Ho from Aashiqui 2. Tum Hi Ho sung by singer Arjit Singh was one among the must-have playlist songs of 2013, hence for T-Pain to have snipped the tune couldn’t possibly have escaped unnoticed. The American rapper’s latest track, titled, That’s Yo Money, which he released on many platforms, features a reoccurring flute melody cannot escape the ears of the all-time-Bollywood song listeners. Netizens on sniffing the similarity have slammed the artiste for copying the popular Hindi song Tum Hi Ho from the movie Aashiqui 2 of 2013. According to reports, the duplicating came to the public’s full light when Mithoon, Bollywood composer and also the original creator of the song, raised the issue on his Twitter handle.

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The music composer tweeted, "Sir, the melody that you have used in your new song is my original work for a previously released Hindi film..The Label is looking into this,".

Sir, the melody that you have used in your new song is my original work for a previously released Hindi film..The Label is looking into this.#tumhiho #Aashiqui2 https://t.co/5fnDf4sfg7

— Mithoon (@Mithoon11) December 15, 2018

Soon after the tweet, fans of the Bollywood song went about calling the American rapper for copying the Bollywood tune.  Here are some of the tweets slamming T-Pain for copying the song:

Dunno why but this seems familiar 🙈🙈🙈 #aashiqui2 #tumhiho @TPAIN https://t.co/69NJvAujsT . It’s a melody from Mithun’s song buddy @Mithoon11 @raiisonai @itsBhushanKumar

— Mohit Suri (@mohit11481) December 15, 2018

Sir, the instrumental is simply a copy of #TumHiHo

— Md Dipty Prodhan Dipto (@dipty98) December 15, 2018

Hella just ruined an amazing Bollywood song 😤

— Megha Sharma (@meghasharma30) December 17, 2018

@TPAIN yes the way u have used it its really not correct its better u create original work this song is so close to us and @Mithoon11 spends years for creating his work plz do not use it in this way may d lord give u wisdom

— Resham Talwar (@Rj_Resham) December 15, 2018

On Saturday, T-Pain himself released his tweet surrounding the controversy, he tweeted, "Woke up to getting dragged by brown twitter. Sooooo yea. I definitely didn't produce this song. Had no idea that was a sample and have never heard the music before I got the beat from the producer. Easy thing to work out. The labels will be in contact. Thanx,".

Woke up to getting dragged by brown twitter. Sooooo yea. I definitely didn’t produce this song. Had no idea that was a sample and have never heard the music before I got the beat from the producer. Easy thing to work out. The labels will be in contact. Thanx

— T-Pain (@TPAIN) December 15, 2018

Following the outrage online and complaint from the makers of Tum Hi Ho, the song has been removed from YouTube.