Did Will.I.Am steal local musician DJ Lag's beat?

In case you missed it: local artist, DJ Lag, accused DJ Megan Ryte of stealing one of his songs. People were upset because it was very clearly the same song and what made it worse is that Megan has not addressed this "coincidence". She also disabled comments on the YouTube video for the track. It seemed like she was just trying to avoid any backlash without acknowledging what she had done. Then there was a plot twist...