Why did Rosa Parks decide to sue hip-hop duo Outkast? What spurred the civil rights leader to pursue legal action against the rappers? OutKast’s song “Rosa Parks” was meant as a homage to the Civil Rights icon. The lyrics don’t mention her explicitly, they mostly talk about falling off in the rap game, but Big Boi references 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 Civil rights figurehead Rosa Parks filed suit against Outkast |and laFaceRecords on Wednesday, March 31, asking for 25,000 in damages and to have hername removed from all of their products. 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). According to Billboard, Parks filed a lawsuit against Outkast in 1999 alleging defamation and trademark infringement because they used her name without permission in “Rosa Parks.” The song The 1999 lawsuit alleged defamation and trademark infringement because the Grammy-winning group OutKast used Parks' name without her permission in the song title "Rosa Parks." The chorus is: "Ah-ha, hush that fuss. 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 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. The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way today (Dec. 8) for civil rights icon Rosa Parks to proceed with her lawsuit against rap group OutKast over a hit song with her name as its title. Where pop culture & Black women meet.INTRO SONG: BUSINESS INQUIRIE Rosa Parks vs. OutKast OutKast has the dubious distinction of being sued by American civil-rights heroine Rosa Parks (1913–). The first single from their 1998 release Aquemini bore her name, though its lyrics did not mention her. Its chorus referred to her historic 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama bus, where African Rosa Parks' legal team filed a lawsuit against OutKast and LaFace Records in a court case later known as Rosa Parks vs LaFace Records, but ultimately lost the case. OutKast is an American hip hop duo, consisting of André "André 3000" Benjamin & Antwan "Big Boi" Patton. The duo is one of the most successful hip-hop groups of all time, having received six Grammy Awards. "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 But where the case of Rosa Parks vs. OutKast is concerned, what scrapes at your heart is something beyond the law. For all that the lawsuit may say about freedom of speech, it says more about the Provided to YouTube by LaFace/LegacyRosa Parks · OutkastBig Boi & Dre Present OutKast℗ 1998 Arista Records LLCReleased on: 2001-12-04Composer, Lyricist: A "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. If the only thing Rosa Parks did was refused to give up her seat. She did that as part of a broader effort, of which she had been a part since childhood (her father was a civil rights activist, and in the early years of the movement she was involved with investigating sexual assault and rape of women of color, leading organizing efforts, among other things).
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