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Cutty Ranks's claim over "Dame Tu Cosita"

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Cutty Ranks's separate and longer-running effort to be credited and paid for "Dame Tu Cosita," which he says derives from his 1991 record "The Stopper" and which he says he wrote before El Chombo translated it into Spanish in 1997. The 2018 remix with Pitbull and Karol G reached No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the video has passed five billion views.

As at January 2026 he had retained new counsel and told the Jamaica Gleaner: "I am still battling them because all now I haven't been properly compensated." He has also publicly backed Steely & Clevie's case.

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Jamaica Gleaner, "Cutty Ranks wages copyright battle over viral hit 'Dame tu Cosita'" (9 January 2026).
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A rhythm built in a Kingston studio in 1989 travelled to Panama, through New York, into San Juan, and became the pulse of the biggest Spanish-language pop music on earth. A Los Angeles court is now preparing to put the question of who owns it to a jury.

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