Veteran soul singer Angie Stone has accused Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars of copying one of her old group's tracks for their 2014 smash hit 'Uptown Funk'.

The star believes the track borrows too heavily from The Sequence's 1979 tune 'Funk You Up'. Speaking to The Sun, Stone said feels "robbed" by the similarities.

She said: "As far as I’m concerned the song belongs to us. We have been robbed, railroaded, overlooked and completely disrespected. Everyone got paid but my group.

"The truth of the matter is no one on that suit deserves it more than The Sequence because those lyrics are ours - 'Funk You Up was ours'. We branded it in 1979. Their record was not recorded before ours and I think it is because we are women on the ballot and we are getting railroaded. The truth is we have been trying to sue them long before the record became Record of the Year [at the Grammys]."

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Listen to the two songs below: