Frank Ocean: 'Gay' and Grammy Award Winning Singer Sued Over Channel Orange Song 'Lost'?

Grammy Winner Frank Ocean has been hit with a lawsuit over his channel ORANGE single, "Lost."

The openly bi-sexual "Thinkin' Bout You" singer is being sued by songwriter/producer Micah Otano, who produced several tracks for the 2012 album, which won the Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album at this year's Grammy awards.

Otano is not credited on the track. Producer Malay is given credit on the album for the song. Otano claims that Malay took a track the two worked on together titled "Daylight", turned it into "Lost" and took the credit for himself.

The lawsuit, filed on March 6 in the Central District United States District Court or California, names Ocean and Malay, as well as label Island Def Jam and parent company Universal.

Otano is seeking an undisclosed amount in back royalties and damages. Check out the lawsuit over at AllStarHipHop.com.

Frank Ocean, who was born Christopher Breaux, was raised in New Orleans and worked as a ghost writer for prominent artists such as Brandy and Justin Bieber before coming to fame as a member of the chaotic rap collective, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All.

Ocean received critical and commercial success via his first mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra and its singles "Novacane" and "Swim Good." Channel ORANGE Ocean's major label debut and netted him four singles that garnered radio play ("Thinkin Bout You", "Pyramids", "Sweet Life" and the song mentioned in the suit, "Lost"). Ocean's rampant popularity was attributed to his songwriting talent as well as a viral Tumblr post where the singer came out as a bi-sexual man, making him one of the first mainstream hip-hop/R&B   to do so.

What do you think? Did Ocean fail to give proper credit?

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