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American singer,\u00a0The Weeknd<\/strong>\u00a0has been sued for at least $5million for alleged plagiarism.<\/p>\n According to TMZ, a Somali-American poet named\u00a0Yasminah<\/strong>\u00a0is suing the 28-year-old and the song’s producers,\u00a0Daft Punk,<\/strong>\u00a0for ‘at least $5million’, claiming her song Hooyo is the blueprint for ‘Starboy,’<\/p>\n The gossip site reported that the self-described ‘activist’ released her track in 2009, seven years before The Weeknd’s chart-topper.<\/p>\n According to Yasminah, \u00a0both tracks feature the ‘same hook, same key, similar tempo and both songs feature prominent claps on beats 2 and 4’.<\/p>\n The Weekend’s ‘Starboy’ which was an instant hit after it was released has sold more than 6million copies in the US alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" American singer,\u00a0The Weeknd\u00a0has been sued for at least $5million for alleged plagiarism. According to TMZ, a Somali-American poet named\u00a0Yasminah\u00a0is suing the 28-year-old and the song’s producers,\u00a0Daft Punk,\u00a0for ‘at least $5million’, claiming her song Hooyo is the blueprint for ‘Starboy,’ The gossip site reported that the self-described ‘activist’ released her track in 2009, seven years before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n