The supposed ‘arrest’, we’re told, was made in connection with his ‘admitted willful infringement’ of the intellectual property rights (copyright) of Mo’Hits Records Limited.
Sources suggest that it was the Mo’Hits camp that filed a complaint against Hansome which led to the arrest.
Kelly Hansome was reportedly made to sign an undertaking promising to ‘refrain from further use of Mo’Hits Records Limited’s material, released or unreleased, and offered profuse apologies to Mo’Hits Records Limited’. It was also said that the artiste was placed on a bail of N800,000.
But a few hours later, Hansome’s management responded with an official statement saying that their artiste, Kelly Hansome wasn’t arrested but only asked to appear at the station to ‘sign documents stating he will take down the song from the internet; this was after it was proven that Mo-Hits have the legal rights to the said song’.
‘I was never arrested so any media outlet that has published that better have a copy of the warrant posted alongside. God bless the media‘, @KellyHansome. ‘I do hereby order all online media outlets to desist 4rm further use of the song(feeling good by Tuface&Dbanj- Kelly Hansome remix)‘.
Don Jazzy finally spoke on the whole matter, and the Mo’Hits boss opened up in this frank email…
Thanks for taking the time to confirm from me instead of jumping into conclusions like some other people. I really appreciate.
Kelly Hansome was not Arrested cos if we really intend to do that he’ll not be out. All what we did was involve the law so as not to take matters into our hands like most people might result to in this kind of situation. We just wanted a proper documentation to make him hands off Mohits intellectual property.
We were informed of him using the beat I made for D’banj and 2face that’s not even supposed to be out at all, but was leaked by a music site some weeks back. Despite the fact that Kelly has not really been a lover of Mohits which he has made clear in countless unreplied diss tracks, we still made an effort to send him messages not to release the said track. But he stubbornly refused and went ahead to release the track. That is why we now decided to get the law involved by sending our lawyers to get on it. Police was just involved obviously to make sure things don’t get rowdy. We do not own or control the police to tell them how to do their job. You know how some police can take some matters personal anyway. All in all we got our apology letter and he signed the undertaking to leave our music alone. A lot of people including MI have remixed our works before in the past and we did not complain cos it’s allowed sometimes. But not in this case I’m sorry.
A collabo between D’banj and 2face (who is our mentor) is a big deal for us and we intend to still work on the original song. So Kelly using it is not acceptable for now. I do not believe in beef like my fans know. But come on, there is only so much insult one can take, and riding on a Don Jazzy beat without my permission after openly calling us all sort of names is definitely a cheeky move from him.
This incident has been resolved and doesn’t stop me from dancing to some of his diss songs that I like and the ones he might come up with after this. Neither does it stop me from being his fan. I think he is a talented brother with so much potentials if he could calm down a little #myopinion.
There was no form of violence recorded in resolving this issue.
The music industry moving forward is all we preach but not by beef or taking other people’s property. Please read with maturity and understand that we mean nobody any harm. If you think otherwise then I’m sorry. Maybe you’ll understand someday. Thanks for the love and support. May God bless us all. IDJA
