Nigerian singer, Lyta is getting dragged on Asian Twitter for heavily plagiarizing a music video from Kpop artiste, GOT7.
Lyta released the music video for his latest single “Hold Me Down” on Friday, August 14, 2020, and has already racked up over 400,000 views on YouTube.
However, it didn’t take long before K-Pop fans noticed the significant similarities between “Hold Me Down” and the music video for GOT7’s hit song “Just Right” with over 300 million views.
Watch the two videos below and compare the similarities.
Meanwhile, Furious K-Pop fans are calling on Lyta to explain and apologize for the similarities using the hashtag #ApologiseLyta.
Lyta they’re dragging ur hair in Asia right now😂😂😂😂 Lyta’s not the video director mf. #ApologiseLyta 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
— nairamarley (@officialnairam1) August 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/Wet_Wizkid/status/1294574291917340672?s=20
https://twitter.com/YinkaPost/status/1294563335002828803?s=20
https://twitter.com/BagOfNuts_/status/1294555511526952961?s=20
Lyta is getting called out in Thailand for plagiarism. 👇🏼👇🏼 with a hashtag to go #ApologizeLyta . The video director is responsible for this but Lyta is the bigger picture here apparently pic.twitter.com/rgqxeL5rGi
— Demo’ (@Demo__UK) August 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/chaos_got7/status/1294630833387638785?s=20
https://twitter.com/jejungkooke/status/1294587388132376576?s=20
https://twitter.com/chaos_got7/status/1294631882164965378?s=20
https://twitter.com/chaos_got7/status/1294631371567173632?s=20
So Lyta will make Nigerians know GOT7 now, how do you copy abi you forgot that we are in a global space, did you think Kpop don’t have fans in Africa? Haba!!!!! #ApologiseLyta
— Nwagbo Nkiru (@pharmNk) August 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/Crypto__Gem/status/1294632792635199489?s=20
So South Koreans they drag lyta, this life no balance 😂……….. #ApologiseLyta #ApologizeLyta
— Destin A ©️ (@DestinAkpos) August 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/Crypto__Gem/status/1294636106491863040?s=20
from plagiarism got7 friendship necklace, plagiarism the album design, plagiarism, the choreography, plagiarism yg's hit the stage choreography and now plagiarism the whole mv from scene to scene, im tired of this, jype better not gonna let this slide again@GOT7Official pic.twitter.com/N2AUnHWBBU
— kath (@defjbeoms_) August 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/chaos_got7/status/1294632131717672960?s=20
🤦🏾♂️ Lyta is not the video director!! #apologiselyta
Y’all go check the number of dislikes on Lyta’s new video "hold me down"
Asians are dragging Lyta for plagiarism; they said he copied Got7’s just right video. pic.twitter.com/Cr7zeCiCur— ✙ (@adelzmusic) August 15, 2020
No excuse for plagiarism!
Please send emails to [email protected] and report Lyta's 'Hold Me Down' mv for plagiarism.
✔️Include the music video link in your email
✔️Report the MV
❌Leaving comments in the MVDon't interact with the mv 🙏@GOT7Official pic.twitter.com/UNhK5oIDnN
— GOT7.with.Phoenix (@GOT7wPhoenix) August 15, 2020
This is coming just four days after Lyta signed to Naira Marley’s record label, Marlian Music.