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Hiplife artiste, Guru, has shot a sharp message to detractors who wish to drag his name through dirt in order to deny him his dream of winning Ghana Music awards this year. �They will not succeed�, he said. �I�m aware that some individuals want to bring me down because they know I�m close to winning not less than three awards at the Ghana Music Awards in April.� Guru was responding to an allegation that hit media circles over last weekend that he stole a song, Bossu, belonging to new artiste Osagy which carried a similar title as well as chorus arrangement. Speaking to Showbiz last Tuesday, Guru claimed he had never come across the name Osagy in his life let alone steal his song. �Osagy wants to ride on my popularity but I want to advise him that it is not going to work because I am already established. I don�t need to steal Osagy�s song to make a hit when I already have a number of hit songs. �Of all the hit songs I released last year, no one has accused me of stealing a song than Osagy; a song, Bossu, which to me didn�t really make much of an impact. Osagy or whatever he calls himself should better find another strategy to promote himself rather than ride on my back to be popular� he said. About his song Bossu, the Lapaz Toyota hitmaker said he got the idea from his talent manager Frank Wiafe Agyekum, who wrote the lyrics of the song after which he went to Ball Jay�s studio to record it. He said Kwaw Kese was present at the studio when he was busily rehearsing the song, so it came to him as a surprise for another person to claim ownership of it. �Hiplife artistes Edem, Samini and Kwaw Kese can bear witness because I forwarded the song to them to do a remix of it. As it stands now, if Osagy is claiming I have stolen his song, I think the best thing for him to do is to go to court and I know he will lose because I have enough evidence to prove that the song is mine� Osagy had a different story to tell when he was interviewed earlier on Pluzz FM. He said he sent his song to some industry �heavyweights� for approval and possible feature on the song, and Guru was one of the people he sent his song to. According to him, he was overly shocked when he later heard the release of Bossu on air as a song belonging to Guru. Commenting on a seperate accusation that he stole another song Alkaida from Tee Phlow, Guru said both Shatta Wale and Nhyira Kojo have all sang versions of Alkaida and wondered why anyone should have a problem only with his version. �The title of my song is not Alkaida but Boys Abre and even if it was called Alkaida why can�t anyone do a song around a popular term that everyone was using? The sky is my limit and no one can stop me from doing what I know how to do best.� Guru said.