Steely & Clevie

Last year a US judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses thousands of reggaeton releases of infringing the copyright in the ‘dembow riddim’, which originates in a 1989 track from Steely & Clevie. Attorneys working on the case are currently busy accusing each other of bad conduct…

A lawsuit that names Bad Bunny, J Balvin and Daddy Yankee among its defendants and basically accuses the whole reggaeton genre of copyright infringement has been allowed to proceed. Producers Steely & Clevie say they have never been credited for creating the drum beat that underpins the sound…