You Stole My Steez: 8 Musicians Who People Say Got Famous Copying Other Singers

Trey Songz and R. Kelly

If anyone remembers, with his scrawny physique and braids, a few years back, Trey Songz was just one of many wannabe R&B singers trying to find their way into the mainstream. And during that time, he was singing about just making it in general, women with undeserving men and waiting for his “Wonderwoman.” But all it took to make it big was to talk about sex…like, constantly. He claimed he invented it, and the neighbors knew his name because of it. But with all that sex talk came comparisons that he bit the steez of R. Kelly. Hmmm…he did do a remix to “Trapped In the Closet” a few years back that Kelly wasn’t too happy about and he looked EXACTLY like him…but Songz doesn’t deny that he uses some of Kelly’s formula. The thing is, not only does he not care, but he says R. Kelly did some theft himself, and from you know who: “People say, ‘Well, I hear a lot of R. Kelly in your music.’ So what? R. Kelly took Aaron Hall’s whole style. Two albums straight. … You can say what you want about me.”