A Chicago recording artist is suing the band Black Eyed Peas and Interscope Records for copyright infringement.

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This song Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas hit number one on the Billboard chart last year. But a local musician called Phoenix Phenom says the song is stolen from her 2008 release called Boom Dynamite. Here’s that song.

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Ira Gould is an attorney representing Phoenix Phenom or singer Ebony Latrice Batts and producer Manford Mohr.

GOULD: What makes this song so successful, that was her inspiration. She wrote it with Manford Mohr. And like any author or originator of something that comes from the spirit and the talent, she wants people to know she did it.

Gould says songs were submitted to Interscope Records with the intention of getting a member of the Black Eyed Peas to sing on a Phoenix Phenom track. Gould says his clients want credit and a share of the profits.

Interscope Records did not respond to calls for comment.