Awkward! Nadia Nakai’s new song is Nicki Minaj’s old song

The concept of sampling old music and reworking it into something new has become a large part of producing hip hop music all over the world but there’s sampling and then there’s downright passing off somebody’s work as your own and the Twitter streets seem to think that that is exactly what Nadia Nakai did with her new single Yass B***h.

Nakai dropped the single yesterday and a few keen-eared music fans immediately picked up the similarity between the single and another track released in 2014.

Take a listen to both songs, starting with Nadia’s single. And please be warned, both songs contain strong language:

Nicki Minaj’s Yasss Bish:

Does Nadia’s single qualify as having sampled the Nicki Minaj single?

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