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Back in 1998, Outkast dropped their now-classic album "Aquemini." There's one song that stands out in particular: "Rosa Parks," which quickly became a favorite among Outkast's listeners. It's worth noting that despite the song bearing the same name as the historical icon, it mainly focuses on the notion of becoming less popular in the rap game. Parks v. LaFace Records, 329 F.3d 437 (6th Cir. 2003), was a lawsuit filed by attorney Gregory J Reed in March 1999 on Rosa Parks' behalf against American hip-hop duo Outkast and LaFace Records, claiming that the group had illegally used Parks' name without her permission for the song "Rosa Parks", the most successful radio single of Outkast's 1998 album Aquemini. A few months later, Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005, at 92. “It was kind of weird, because I think Rosa Parks was misled,” said OutKast engineer Neal H. Pogue, to Creative Loafing, in 2010 In the late 1990s, Outkast released their single “Rosa Parks,” named after the civil rights activist. It was one of the best singles off of their album, Aquemini . However, the rap duo’s Rosa Parks, Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000) and Antwan Patton (Big Boi) of the rap group OutKast, settled an ongoing six-year lawsuit in which Parks accused the duo of defamation and trademark infringement in relation the group’s 1998 Aquemini’s song entitled “Rosa Parks.” In the settlement, OutKast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Arista US civil rights icon Rosa Parks has won the right in court to proceed with her case against rap duo OutKast for using her name as the title of a hit song. The US Supreme Court allowed a court ruling that reinstated Ms Parks' claims, made in 1999, against OutKast and three Bertelsmann AG companies. Parks, 92, had claimed that the song “Rosa Parks” on a 1998 OutKast album amounted to false advertising under U.S. trademark law and intruded on her rights. In December 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the hip-hop duo OutKast and their record label affiliates. By denying OutKast’s petition for review, the justices let stand an appellate court ruling that reinstated portions of Rosa Parks’ lawsuit against the musicians. In effect, the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the [] In 1999, Parks sued the record company and OutKast for defamation and trademark infringement over the song titled Rosa Parks. Lawyers for Parks claimed it defamed her and used her name without Parks, an activist in the 1950s, and the rap duo OutKast resolved a lawsuit over using her name on a CD released in 1998. Under the settlement, OutKast and co-defendants SONY BMG Music Entertainment, Arista Records LLC, and LaFace Records will help develop educational programs to "enlighten today's youth about the significant role Rosa Parks Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 26, 1956. Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images. Most of us know Rosa Parks as the African American woman who quietly, but firmly, refused to give up her bus seat to a white person Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. That small act of "Rosa Parks" is widely considered one of Outkast's best songs. In 2020, The Ringer ranked the song number eight on their list of the 50 greatest Outkast songs, [ 9 ] and in 2021, The Guardian ranked the song number two on their list of the 20 greatest Outkast songs. "OutKast's 'Rosa Parks' sparked controversy when the civil rights icon's estate sued over the use of her name. The legal battle lasted years but ended with a Outkast Song Controversy. In 1998, the hip-hop group Outkast released a song, “Rosa Parks,” which peaked at No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart the following year. The song Become A Better Singer In Only 30 Days, With Easy Video Lessons! Ah ha, hush that fuss Everybody move to the back of the bus Do you want to bump and slump with us We the type of people make the club get crunk Ah ha, hush that fuss Everybody move to the back of the bus Do you want to bump and slump with us We the type of people make the club get crunk Many a day has passed, the night has gone Rosa Parks and rap duo OutKast have settled a lawsuit in which the civil rights pioneer accused the group of wrongly using her name in a song title, her guardian said yesterday (April 14). Rosa Parks is the first single released from the third studio album Aquemini of American hip hop duo OutKast. The single was released on July 25, 2008 by LaFace Records, RCA, and Arista. The song is named after Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks, it is also of the duo's most successful singles to date, and was also Grammy Nominated for "Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group". It also stirred While it was an artistic triumph, “Rosa Parks” generated a bit of controversy, due to its unauthorized – and somewhat-confusing – association with the Civil Rights icon. The famous instigator of the Montgomery Bus Boycott would ultimately sue the group and their label for misappropriating her legacy, eventually forcing OutKast to settle "OutKast's 'Rosa Parks' sparked controversy when the civil rights icon's estate sued over the use of her name. The legal battle lasted years but ended with a
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