French Montana Sued for $5 Million Over "Ain't Worried About Nothin"

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Producer Of “Ain’t Worried About Nothin” Slapped French Montana With A $5 Million Lawsuit

According to TMZ, French Montana might have to drop a bag for one of his biggest hits to date after allegedly stealing “Ain’t Worried About Nothing”.

According to a lawsuit, the song features his voice and his lyrics, but everything else about it was created by someone else Eddie Lee Richardson, aka Hotwire the Producer, says French stole a song he’d uploaded the year before ‘Ain’t Worried’ was released.

Hotwire claims his track, “*Hood* Pushin’ Weight,” hit SoundClick in 2012 as an instrumental with a “unique and artistic array of digital sounds and rhythms” and that it was also “tagged” with a single and repeating vocal … “Hotwire.”

“Ain’t Worried About Nothin” came out in April 2013, and Hotwire says it’s an exact duplicate of the music he created and produced just with lyrics and vocals on top of it. Now he’s now suing French for $5 million.

In early March Montana was also involved in a lawsuit for Fat Joe’s 2016 hit with Remy Ma, “All the Way Up.” A Florida artist filed a federal suit in New York alleging that his own “unfinished version” of the song, which also features French, is “identical” to Fat Joe’s hit song.