Andrew E.

Andrew Ford Valentino Espiritu (born July 30, 1967), known professionally as Andrew E., is a Filipino rapper and actor. He is best known in the Philippines for his 1990 debut hit single "Humanap Ka ng Panget" ("Find an Ugly Person"). Andrew E. won a Rap Album of the Year award for his album Clubzilla at the 2010 PMPC Star Awards for Music. His single "Shoot Shoot Part 2" was later used as an instrumental for the campaign jingle "Heto Na Inday Sara".

Andrew Ford Valentino Espiritu (born July 30, 1967), known professionally as Andrew E., is a Filipino rapper and actor. He is best known in the Philippines for his 1990 debut hit single "Humanap Ka ng Panget" ("Find an Ugly Person"). Andrew E. won a Rap Album of the Year award for his album Clubzilla at the 2010 PMPC Star Awards for Music. His single "Shoot Shoot Part 2" was later used as an instrumental for the campaign jingle "Heto Na Inday Sara". === Allegations of plagiarism from foreign songs=== In 2018, Espiritu became involved in a plagiarism controversy when "Humanap Ka ng Panget" was accused of being an unauthorized translation of the song "Find an Ugly Woman" by DJ Cash Money and MC Marvelous. A thread in the /r/Philippines subreddit called out the rapper for allegedly making a cover of "Find An Ugly Woman" without Cash Money Marvelous' permission, just after the noontime variety show ASAP aired a tribute performance to Espiritu. The track "Alabang Girls" was taken from the Led Zeppelin song "Black Dog", where its band guitarist Jimmy Page guest on a show of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as he stated "If someone had taken my riffs without acknowledgment or payment, it would have been deemed theft. The same standard must apply to AI". The song chorus for the track "Banyo Queen" was heavily interpolated from Ben E. King song "Stand By Me".

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