Two New York musicians filed a lawsuit against drill superstar Ice Spice on Wednesday, alleging her 2023 hit single “In Ha Mood” infringes on the copyright of their song “In That Mood” published a year earlier.
In the 21-page complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn-bred musicians alleged Ice Spice and her producer Riot “copied” the title, hook, chorus, phrasing, and tempo of “In That Mood” without permission or proper credit.
According to the lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone, the correlations between the two songs “are so strikingly similar that they cannot be purely coincidental.”
The musicians noted that their song was released as a single in early 2022 in connection with an advertising campaign that never ran and later in July 2022, as part of the album “Boom Bap 2 Drill Rap”.
They say the song was performed publicly at least three dozen times around New York and in other states including West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida.
The new lawsuit is asking for damages to be awarded at trial.
Last year, Ice Spice took home Best New Artist at the 2023 MTV VMA Awards with hits like “Princess Diana” with Nicki Minaj and “Karma” with Taylor Swift. The artist has already begun to tease new music for 2024 with a snippet of what appeared to be an unreleased song earlier this month.
