Alabama rapper YBN Nahmir scored his first breakout hit with “Rubbin Off the Paint,” which is produced by Swedish up-and-comer Izak. While he should be celebrating its debut at No. 79 on the Billboard Hot 100, the Alabama rapper is actually being forced to fight for the rights to his own song. On Wednesday, he shared a lengthy Instagram post detailing the situation.

According to YBN, it all started when his former manager sold the beat to a “big record company” without his knowledge:

ALL YOUNG ARTISTS BEWARE Early on, one of my old managers helped me buy the “Rubbin” beat off line. Once shit started moving, he got excited and then, w/o my knowledge and on some greedy shit let one these big record company niggas finesse him into selling the beat to them. Then the company tried to force me to do a deal w them claiming they own my song. It’s fucked up bc this is my big shot and they tryna finesse me out my shit like I’m stupid or some shit. Nah bruh, YBN =Young Boss Nigga! So y’all already know, I ain’t havin that shit. OML, Im smooth tho, I’ll rather get up wit somebody before they ever finesse me out my shit

While the specifics of YBN’s conflict are unknown, shady publishing deals have been around since the beginning of the music industry. Recently, Metro Boomin set off a discussion about the topic with a series of tweets directed at Artist Publishing Group (APG), a music publishing company administered by Warner/Chappell, a publishing subsidiary of Warner Music Group that also owns Atlantic Records. Mike WiLL Made-It and London On Da Track also joined the conversation and confirmed Metro’s contention that APG “basically just want[s] to [en]slave you and steal your music to make hits.”

Just before YBN Nahmir made the legal drama public, producer Izak recently sat down with Genius to explain how the “Rubbin Off the Paint” beat was created.

In the video, Izak explained how was influenced by Pierre Bourne’s production on Playboi Carti’s smash hit “Magnolia”:

I was listening to “Magnolia”—like I said—but I wanted to add my own flavor to it, so I had two 808s because I didn’t want to the beat to be too repetitive…. I wanted to switch it up a little bit, so I added this kick pattern. After the first eight bars I was like, “Okay, we need to slow it down because people are gonna get hype,” so I put this trance effect right here. It slowed down the vibe on the beat.

Read all the lyrics to YBN Nahmir’s “Rubbin Off the Paint” on Genius now.