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I dislike the whole concept of “beef” & find it disheartening that fans develop weird parasocial relationships regarding the petty grudges of celebrities, often incentivizing those celebrities to use that “beef” as a way to stir up drama & engagement.
And in a genre where beefs can spill over to the streets & result in murder, it seems particularly evil to monetize it & use it for marketing.
there’s a ton of YouTube channels dedicated to explaining the various beefs between artists that led to someone getting shot.
It’s murder (or the potential of murder) packaged as a consumer product where people slurp up every new diss track and escalation curious to see how far it gets.
Cuz that’s what people find thrilling about beefs. Will it turn into another boogie vs Tupac? Will another name get added to the long list of artists who have been killed?
Granted, in this case, it’s now a bunch of middle aged men & is kinda silly, so I don’t think it’s gonna lead to anyone getting shot anymore.
But at best, it’s kinda sad that people seem to enjoy encouraging antagonistic behavior
& petty grievances instead of cooperation & reconciliation.
You also see it in dumb shit like real housewives & reality show drama. People love to watch others fight & be angry & petty & mean. Sad.
I agree with your general sentiment, except I never saw “fandoms” invest in hip-hop beef. Everything that happened in the streets, to my recollection, was by the actual participants/friend groups of the dispute.
I think more about Beyhive and Swifties when I think about long-term sociological harm due to fandom.
And I think more about competitive dating shows (The Bachelor franchise all the way down) and apps in terms of normalizing behavior that is self-degrading and numbs us to the compassion towards others, not to mention the dangers of emotional and psychological manipulation. We shouldn’t normalize shopping for human affection like they’re hoodies on Amazon. And it shouldn’t be entertaining to watch people compete with each other for someone’s attention and affection. That’s not how real connections are made.
Lots of things bother me as much as rap beef bothers you, but maybe I just don’t know enough about it…
except I never saw “fandoms” invest in hip-hop beef
I'm guessing your eyes just stopped working when Kendrick dropped Not Like Us, and during the long beef between Kendrick and Drake that lead up to it, and thats just one example
I mean I don't know the real story, or care to be honest, but if you try and speak poorly over someone fucking over a woman on this sub you're not going to be well received.
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His trademark for the phrase "I ain't got it" covers commercial classes 025, 018 and 009 which include accessories, phone cases, hats, t-shirts and hoodies.
Nobody can own the phrase obviously, but they can own the rights to using that phrase for merchandise, which this lady was trying to do. Now only his company can sell such merchandise.
Looks to me that it has met the minimum requirement for an application for trademarking to be filed, but the application has not yet been seen by an examiner. I would assume that means there is no enforceable trademark at this time.
I believe trademarks are first-to-use. From what I've seen about this, she never sold any merch, just the song itself. 50 cent was first to use the phrase on merch, which would make it his. The registration doesn't necessarily need to be approved for him to assume its valid.
But I can't imagine that would be worth it after writing, producing and releasing the song which has "I ain't got it" in the lyrics 21 times in a row and then setting up a merch shop which has the words on all the products.
Yep, a 2 sec goog "The Rogers Test: The law protects creative expression. As long as a song title has artistic relevance to the song and doesn't explicitly mislead people into thinking 50 Cent sponsored or created her music, she is legally allowed to name her song whatever she wants."
So two reasons why that worked when it won't here:
Paris is actually the one who said "that's hot" as her catchphrase
She only got the trademark for clothing and accessories, so you couldn't make a bag with "Thats hot" and nothing else on the side of it, because honestly if you did that, you probably were referencing her anyway
??? Wrong guesss you were not on youtube back when the finebros trademarked the word “react” and were getting people takendown and sued for the word react
And they fought tooth and nail, if all content creators didn't protest so early on, they would probably make it an actual thing, and youtube would be dead, makes you think huh
His trademark for the phrase "I ain't got it" covers commercial classes 025, 018 and 009 which include accessories, phone cases, hats, t-shirts and hoodies.
Nobody can own the phrase obviously, but they can own the rights to using that phrase for merchandise, which this lady was trying to do. Now only his company can sell such merchandise.
While this is hilarious and I’m not really tripping on that part
How can he trademark the phrase “I ain’t got it” if he doesn’t have a financial use case associated with the term? Now nobody at all can use the term if there is a financial gain associated with it? Wow.
Not a lawyer. You would have to make money off of it in order for it to hold up as a trade marked phrase.
He released merch so that lets him trade mark it
Can you deny someone the right to use it by trademarking it after the other person created it?
If I trademark "im pickle rick" can I stop rick&Morty to ever show that episode ever again?
funny but it shouldn't be possible to trademark things that aren't your own, same for domains, all those resellers need to disappear from the face of the planet
Celebrating this as "knowledge is power" like she didn't do the work and he didn't take it to make it his own for profit. Isn't that your argument against ai? Isn't that your argument about corporate capitalism in general?
2018: Teairra Mari sues 50 Cent and Akbar Abdul-Ahad for emotional damages.
2019: A judge ruled in favor of 50 Cent, awarding him $30,000 for legal fees, as he argued the images were already viral before his repost.
2024: 50 Cent seeks to enforce the judgment against Mari, which has now grown to over $50,000 due to accruing interest.
Current Status
50 Cent has filed a Writ of Execution to collect the judgment amount. He claims that Mari has not provided necessary financial information and has not made any payments towards the judgment. Mari has expressed that she is open to a payment plan but has not proposed one
I don’t know why the artists get mixed up with 50. If it goes bad, he’s gonna drag you! He did it to Rotimi and a few other folks that worked with him. I even heard he and the guy that plays Ghost fell out. I would steer clear of him as an artist.
You gotta be petty to cut off revenue streams that would get you the 30k you’re owed just so that the person who owes you money doesn’t make more than that loot they owe you.
If 50 had that encounter with Cersi, he'd have first seat at Joffery's wedding holding a banner that says "All Robert's sons have black hair" and laughing as Joffery's chocking on his poison.
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