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Did Ella Mai force Jacquees to remove his ‘Trip’ remix from the internet?
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Singer-songwriter Jacquees was born Rodriquez Jacquees Broadnax in Atlanta
Atlanta singer Jacquees is known for remixing songs, but one of his latest remakes wasn’t well received by the singer behind the original.
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In August, he posted a snippet on Instagram of his own rendition of Ella Mai’s “Trip” and tagged the songstress. The following month, he uploaded the full ballad. But weeks after it was released, he was reportedly forced to remove it from YouTube and SoundCloud.
The crooner shared the news on Twitter by posting an article by SA Breaking News with several sad face emojis. He even took to the social media site to deny rumors that the track was removed, because he was making money from it.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😓😓😓😓😓 https://t.co/5TAvIzdTvJ
— Jacquees (@Jacquees) September 26, 2018
When fans caught wind of the announcement, many headed to their timelines to express their thoughts. Several were bummed they could no longer hear Jacquees’ version.
The fact that Jacquees version of Trip has disappeared is really making me upset.
— Chelly O (@ChellyO8) September 26, 2018
That Jacquees remix made me like the song.
— Francheska (@HeyFranHey) September 26, 2018
me forcing myself to listen to ella mais trip version bc she made jacquees delete his pic.twitter.com/pLiCsz1SVy
— De🍯 (@deannajayx) September 26, 2018
Others accuse Ella Mai and her team of making the call after Jacquees’ song reportedly outperformed the original. According to Fader, it was streamed nearly 2 million times within 24 hours. Mai’s version accumulated 6 million SoundCloud streams after a month.
Tweeps also noted previous instances where remixes of Mai’s songs were taken down.
Ella Mai is a new artist, her team doesn’t want anyone getting exposure off her.
— Jerome Trammel (@MrJeromeTrammel) September 26, 2018
T-Pain & Plies ‘Boo’d Up’ remixes were 🔥 (better than official remix! 👀) & Jacquees ‘Trippin’ remix is 🔥.
But @EllaMai team is NOT playing, they removed Plies’ version from my Twitter. 🤷🏾♂️ pic.twitter.com/FarxiT4r7v
Soon as Ella Mai saw Jacquees remix blowing up pic.twitter.com/vIBfx9AboO
— A1 (@124Bread) September 26, 2018
Ella Mai was happy with Jacquees’ remix until she saw it was becoming a threat. Perfect example of people wanting to see you good but not better than them🤷🏾♂️
— Trigger Specialist (@luch_1ma) September 26, 2018
Ella Mai was happy with Jacquees’ remix until she saw it was becoming a threat. Perfect example of people wanting to see you good but not better than them🤷🏾♂️
— Trigger Specialist (@luch_1ma) September 26, 2018
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On the other hand, a few believed Mai’s team made the right decision, especially since Jacquees shot a music video for the record.
I love Jacquees but man he put out a whole video to his version of “trip,” before Ella Mai released hers. That’s not right. It was her song so he should have respected her enough to let her put her video out first.
— The Curve Queen (@SorryImPretty) September 26, 2018
💯 emoji twitter is mad because Ella Mai’s people removed Jacquees’ remix of Trip off SoundCloud and Youtube. He didn’t just post a remix, he shot a whole video lol you can’t treat someone else’s single like it’s yours
— meryl sleep (@sportyidk) September 26, 2018
I don’t blame Ella Mai’s people for getting that Jacquees track removed. Son put out visuals for the track & everything. Tried to get a quick bag. Damn that
— Balco B 🇬🇾 (@Brannin) September 26, 2018
I think it’s smart Ella Mai’s people had him remove the remix. They probably heard that Birdman was putting Jacquees on tour with “Trip” being his new hit single.
— Harry Trillafonte (@Stephon_ArTRILL) September 26, 2018
And some chimed in with their own suggestions on how they thought the situation could have been handled.
Ella Mai could have went on tour with Jacquees and made bank but made him take it off the platforms
— Takeoff 🚀 (@k_wood25) September 26, 2018
If Jacquees(?) wanted to jump on it so bad then he should have had a conversation and they could've done a remix together. And it probably would've been dope.
— yodeling veterinarian of the alps (@shotsbywordplay) September 26, 2018
Ella Mai's team should have just made an official Remix instead of telling Jacquees to take his down. It really would have made the song much better.
— Kaitlin. (@kayy_renice) September 26, 2018
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