Singer John Park’s viral McDonald’s ordering rap — a YouTube video that has drawn more than 14 million views — has been stolen and uploaded to global music platforms as an official track without his knowledge, his agency confirmed on November 10.
According to a report by Sports Chosun, the track, titled “Mcdonald’s” and credited to an artist named “yoyotina,” appeared on YouTube Music and Spotify. The listing runs about 2 minutes and 43 seconds, and its provider information names Nigeria-based distributor Jungle Entertainment Ventures.
The upload appears to have been stitched together from audio taken from John Park’s own YouTube content. It opens with Kwak Jin-eon’s rap before moving into John Park’s part, using the original melody and flow unchanged. An unfamiliar chorus that was never in the original was added, followed by a rap that sounds like John Park’s voice but carries completely different lyrics — raising suspicion that generative AI was used to clone his voice.
Music Farm, John Park’s agency, said it has never released the rap as an official song. The agency confirmed that the track is being distributed without authorization on overseas platforms and said it is “currently discussing response measures internally in detail.” The report added that a strong response from the agency looks inevitable, with the alleged theft and the AI voice-cloning suspicion now overlapping.
The original video, in which John Park and Kwak Jin-eon learn hip-hop from rapper Loco and then order burgers by rapping at a real McDonald’s, was posted on John Park’s official YouTube channel. The main video alone has drawn about 8.73 million views, while related Shorts have added about 5.38 million, pushing the combined total past 14 million.
The clip’s popularity went well beyond YouTube: it led to John Park becoming an advertising model for McDonald’s Korea and to the launch of a “John Park Set” menu.
But the rap was created only as a one-off piece for YouTube entertainment content, never intended to be released as a song. That is what makes the unauthorized listing so striking: a casual on-camera challenge, filmed inside a restaurant, has been repackaged as a legitimate commercial release, with a lookalike voice filling in parts John Park never recorded.
Music Farm did not say what steps it will take or when, and it was not immediately clear whether the track had been taken down from the platforms.
