Ice Spice finds herself in hot water amid copyright battle over song 'In Ha Mood'

Ice Spice was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over her 2023 hit single In Ha Mood.

As reported by PEOPLE, the lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday, January17, 2024.

The documents obtained by the outlet, accuse the artist of copying the elements of Brooklyn rapper Duval “D.Chamberz” Chamberlain and Bronx-based sound engineer and producer Kenley “Kass the Producer” Carmenate's 2022 song, In That Mood.

Clarifying their claims, the plaintiffs alleged that Ice Spice and her producer Riot "copied" the "drill" style of the song, its title, hook, chorus lyrics and tempo without asking permission from the musicians or crediting them accordingly.

"The similarities between In That Mood and In Ha Mood, as described herein, are so strikingly similar that they cannot be purely coincidental," the lawsuit read.

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Chamberlain and Carmenate proceeded to allege that In Ha Mood is "at least substantially similar" to their track in many ways that clearly "are not just incidental, but rather go the core of each work."

The filing further claims that, “the similarities between In Ha Mood and [In That Mood] — including the key phrase used in the chorus and repeated in a substantially similar manner numerous times throughout both songs — are such that it is simply not reasonable to believe that In Ha Mood could have been created without having heard [In That Mood] first.”

Chamberlain and Carmenate claim that they wrote and recorded their track, In That Mood, on August 8, 2021 and released it on January 28, 2022.

They launched their song as a single which was meant to be used "in connection with licensing for an advertising campaign that never ran."

Nothing has been heard from Ice Spice over the filing of this lawsuit neither her representatives have responded to PEOPLE’s request for comment.