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Travis Scott Sued For Allegedly Stealing Album Art

Author Autumn Hawkins
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 12: Travis Scott attends the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on September 12, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

Travis Scott is in trouble again. The rapper is being sued by a French artist Mickaël Mehala per TMZ — who also goes by Black Childish. Mehala alleges that the Houston native stole his original artwork for Scott’s compilation album Travis La Flame.

The cover art shows an illustration of Scott in a desert with his body attached to a horse with a cactus in the background, similar to Mehala’s illustration.

The artist claims that he created the illustration in 2015 and sent it to Scott via Instagram DM in 2016 which is the same year the album and its cover art dropped.

Mehala says he never heard back from Scott but saw the resemblance of his art featured front and center when La Flame rolled out.In French legal documents obtained by the gossip site, “Mehala claims he formally registered a copyright for the art in February 2019.” The artist says that he repeatedly tried to contact Scott’s team and eventually heard back from one of his attorneys in the summer of 2019.The artist claims Scott’s lawyer said that the rapper was “unaware of using art belonging to anyone in particular” and noted that the cover art in question has been removed from several platforms.

Mehala however is not satisfied and wants the case brought in front of a judge. He is suing Scott for hundreds of thousands of dollars and wants sole control of art moving forward.

Autumn Hawkins is the National Hip-Hop and R&B writer for Beasley Media, currently residing in New Jersey. Prior to working at Beasley Media, she was in broadcast news as an entertainment producer. When she's not impatiently waiting for Beyoncé to drop new music, she is reading, shopping, or planning a vacation.

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