Former professional boxer Mitchell Rose is reportedly planning on filing an $88 million lawsuit against Jay-Z claiming that the Brooklyn rapper stole his rapping style.

Rose claims that he gave his demo tape to Jay-Z after the March 2001 fight between William Joppy and Felix Trinidad and that the rapper began using the whispering rap style he used on the demo tape.

I saw Jay-Z as we were leaving the arena after the fight, I gave him my tape, and asked him to listen to it, Rose explained in a statement. He took the demo with him and shortly after that he began using the whispering (which he now frequents) in his songs.

I had previously trained some of my artists to use that style, but it quickly became obsolete after Jay-Z got a hold of it. He used the whispering to enhance his music and financially benefit from it, Rose continued. Jay-Z disregarded the fact that it was my demo where he got the style from as he went on to use it for his own personal gains, which is wrong

Jay-Z's representatives have yet to comment on the suit.