A company in Switzerland has put the “triple beam lyrical dream” otherwise known as Biggie Smalls on Boogie Boards and his family is suing them for using the rapper’s name and image, according to TheBlast.
Voletta Wallace, Biggie’s mom and his widow, Faith Evans are suing the Yes Snowboard company and famous Hip-Hop photographer Chi Modu for colluding to sell unauthorized “B.I.G boards”. The products have unauthorized use of the slain rapper’s face and autograph on the snowboards they claim, nor have the company paid for its usage, according to the lawsuit obtained by TheBlast.
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Both Wallace and Evans run the company Notorious B.I.G. LLC.
The suit asserts: “At a time where fame and popularity for musicians comes and goes on an accelerated time scale, it is hard to quantify the power – both emotional and financial – of a musician whose brand and persona are still appreciated, recognized, and replicated more than two decades after his death.”
Biggie’s camp is seeking an injunction against the company, along with profits made from any sales of the merchandise.
The estate also said they don’t want to damage an existing deal they had with another company and that could happen because the snowboards popped up and could hurt the possibility of that deal.
So far on the company’s website it looks like the Biggie Boogie Boards aka “B.I.G boards” have been removed.
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#FreeMeekMill Doc Drops
We applaud Biggie’s camp for tackling a company for selling unauthorized Biggie merchandise. Fighting for justice, we know, comes in all forms – just ask rapper Meek Mill.
Mill dropped the new trailer for the #FreeMeek documentary that explores his life and many challenges with the Philadelphia criminal justice system.
According to the official description: “Free Meek is an upcoming documentary series that will follow Meek and his fight for exoneration while exposing flaws in the criminal justice system. In collaboration with Meek and executive producers Shawn Carter, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Paul and Isaac Solotaroff, and produced by Roc Nation and The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC), the series will give viewers unprecedented access to the star’s life, career, and criminal justice odyssey, while demonstrating the negative effects long tail probation is having on urban communities of color. The series will premiere later this year exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories.”
“I never really looked at it like a nightmare,” Meek said in the trailer. “I looked at it as real life for a Black kid in America. It’s just real life.”