It Wasn't Me - (featuring Ricardo "Rik Rok" Ducent)
"It Wasn't Me" is a 2000 hit song by reggae artist Shaggy featuring Ricardo "Rikrok" Ducent.The song is based on a line from the Eddie Murphy film Raw. The lyrics depict one man (Ricardo Ducent) asking another what to do after his girlfriend caught him with another woman. Shaggy's advice is to deny everything with the phrase "It wasn't me", despite all evidence to the contrary.The song was Shaggy's first number-one hit in the U.S.The single also reached number one in the UK singles chart on March 4, 2001, making the song a transatlantic chart topper.War was a multiracial, multicultural American funk band of the 1970s from Southern California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". War brought a copyright claim against Shaggy claiming the musical horn refrain in "It Wasn't Me" was taken from their instrumental track "Smile Happy" off of the Why Can't We Be Friends album which Shaggy and producer Sting International initially denied.After listening to all of 5 seconds of "Smile Happy" there was no doubt that Shaggy and Sting International had jacked the refrain note for note. They eventually settled out of court. Judge for yourself:
"It Wasn't Me" is a 2000 hit song by reggae artist Shaggy featuring Ricardo "Rikrok" Ducent.The song is based on a line from the Eddie Murphy film Raw. The lyrics depict one man (Ricardo Ducent) asking another what to do after his girlfriend caught him with another woman. Shaggy's advice is to deny everything with the phrase "It wasn't me", despite all evidence to the contrary.The song was Shaggy's first number-one hit in the U.S.The single also reached number one in the UK singles chart on March 4, 2001, making the song a transatlantic chart topper.War was a multiracial, multicultural American funk band of the 1970s from Southern California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". 
War brought a copyright claim against Shaggy claiming the musical horn refrain in "It Wasn't Me" was taken from their instrumental track "Smile Happy" off of the Why Can't We Be Friends album which Shaggy and producer Sting International initially denied.After listening to all of 5 seconds of "Smile Happy" there was no doubt that Shaggy and Sting International had jacked the refrain note for note. They eventually settled out of court. Judge for yourself:
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