Did Drake Copy a Songwriter's Demo? The Janice STFU Lawsuit

The songwriter is Aviel Calev Hirschfield, who actually shares a writing credit with Drake on Beyoncé's "Heated." He says the chorus of "Janice STFU" was lifted from a demo he sent to Drake's team.

He has stems and metadata to back it up. Drake's camp says the claims are baseless. I use this case to walk through how demos, split sheets, and songwriting credits are supposed to work. If you send beats or song ideas to artists and collaborators, this is exactly the kind of situation you need to understand before it happens to you.

This is segment 3 from episode 04 of the Feelz Machine Podcast.