'You took my phrase, fam' - Lethal Bizzle isn't happy with Chris & Kem over their single

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Lethal Bizzle has told Love Island's Chris and Kem they "need to have a conversation" after he said they used his phrase without permission in their single.

The pair's song Little Bit Leave It is at number one on the UK iTunes chart at the moment.

Speaking on the 1Xtra Breakfast Show, they said they don't want any "beef" with the rapper.

But Lethal says people shouldn't be making money off him without credit.

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Kem Cetinay and his partner Amber Davies won Love Island

Lethal Bizzle released a track in 2011 called Leave It Yeah, which has since become one of his well-known phrases.

Meanwhile, Chris and Kem's Little Bit Leave It was released in collaboration with their fellow Love Island contestant and Blazin' Squad member Marcel Somerville.

In a video, external, Lethal Bizzle calls the pair Ross and Kemp, and says: "It's the people that made me realise, 'Biz, are you getting a percentage out of this?'"

He added later on Twitter that he was asked by the label to feature on the song and turned it down - but "didn't know or hear" about the lyric.

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Chris and his partner Olivia came third on Love Island

On Wednesday morning, 1Xtra Breakfast presenter A. Dot asked Chris and Kem what they think.

"Our first reaction was like fanboy reaction. We're the biggest fanboys of him, then we see everything that's going on," says Kem.

"We're amateurs. We don't know this industry. We just made a song, so stuff like that's not really to do with us. We're just trying to make a tune and hope everyone likes it."

The Radio 1 Breakfast Show team tweeted this picture of the pair talking to Nick Grimshaw., external

Asked if they'll give Lethal B a percentage of the profits, Kem replied, "that's not for us to say".

"We literally wouldn't be able to give him an answer. We didn't want to react and look like we're starting beef because we really like him."

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Because it's just one phrase, the rapper probably isn't entitled to royalties, says copyright lawyer Andy Millmore.

"Taking a verse from a song would be a copyright infringement.

"Taking three common words which are strung together, even if somebody came up with the order in which they appeared, is very unlikely to be a copyright infringement."

Lethal B, 33, says he wants to resolve the situation amicably.

"I'm a very reasonable person, so let's just get this sorted out before it has to go anywhere else."

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