Tigra explained, “I’m not even sure that we can pursue legal action. It’s just more of like, it’s straight swagger-jacking. Unfortunately, the girls were 15 and 16 years old when they wrote Cars That Go Boom and do not own the masters. Tigra is still in the music industry, and is well versed on how this situation should have been dealt with. Had L’Trimm’s song heavily influenced Erika, then she should give Tigra and Bunny D recognition and compensation.
RELATED: Lisa Rinna Says She’s Closer To Erika Jayne Than She Ever Was With Denise Richards Lisa Downplays Friendships With Denise and Garcelle Beauvais And Says They Are “Party Friends” And people are going to think that is really her song.” Women aren’t respected in the music business as it is, and we are minorities. And women like Erika don’t think about other women, more importantly, because we’re the underdogs. Bunny opined, “It’s heartbreaking that people just don’t think about other people. “I was actually an Erika fan, and that’s why I’m kind of brokenhearted,” Bunny told The Sun, “I was rooting for her, I saw when she was going through the divorce, and I was like ‘Oh my gosh, my heart is breaking for her.’ I saw she was getting sued. I was like, ‘God bless her heart,’ you know, and then I find this out.'”īunny also thinks Erika, used to the power and status that came with marriage to Tom, was unconcerned with potential copyright issues. She opined, “There’s kind of a reckoning, in this time in history with creators of color, Erika should have said ‘Hey, this is their music.’ I’d love to say I’m flattered, since imitation is the best form of flattery, but she never gave me the chance to be flattered, because she never bothered to acknowledge us.”īunny added that the song, “was blatantly robbed, and to not reference L’Trimm was shady.” As a fan of Erika on RHOBH, Bunny felt a deeper sense of betrayal for the alleged “rip off” since she was rooting for the star post-separation. Tigra said there should have at least been some acknowledgement. Tigra said, “How privileged can you possibly be that you don’t think that people will recognize that you didn’t make that up? Or, that we’d never find out?” Then there’s a question of cultural appropriation. RELATED: Garcelle Beauvais Says It’s “Baffling” RHOBH Cast Believed Erika Jayne Right Away But Not Denise Richards After all, it’s a well know song that was included on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs Of All Time and VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs lists.
“The craziest thing I really can’t wrap my head around is that it’s not an obscure song,” Tigra added, “it’s such a well-known song that it’s kind of a part of the fabric of hip hop.”ĭid Erika know what she was going when she plagiarized the lyrics? Tigra seems to think so, and she accused Erika of wielding her financial privilege to get away with it. The least Erika could do is say, ‘Okay, I was inspired by it.’ But to add insult to injury you jack it and pretend that you made it up, like we never existed.” She never even bothered to shout out L’Trimm or tag us or anything.
Tigra lamented, “And Erika never reached out either of us, and we haven’t seen a penny for it, of course.