GloRilla is going through a copyright lawsuit from a social media character who says the rapper stole her viral catchphrase — “all pure, no BBL” — and used it in her 2024 track “By no means Discover” with out permission.
Natalie Henderson — aka @slimdabodylast on Instagram — says she went viral final yr with the phrase, seemingly a reference to not needing a “Brazilian butt raise” beauty surgical procedure. She says she then turned it right into a track with lyrics together with “All pure, no BBL/ Mad hoes go to hell.”
In a case filed Wednesday (June 20) in Louisiana federal courtroom, Henderson claims that GloRilla (Gloria Woods) violated federal copyright legislation by copying these lyrics into her 2024 observe “By no means Discover,” which options the road: “Pure, no BBL/ however I’m nonetheless gon’ give him hell.”
“There are unmistakable similarities between the 2 works,” Henderson’s lawyer writes. “Primarily based upon a side-by-side comparability of the 2 songs, a layperson might hear similarities within the lyrics, association, melody, core expression, content material, and different compositional parts in each songs and conclude that songs are basically equivalent.”
“By no means Discover,” that includes Okay Carbon, was featured on GloRilla’s debut studio album Superb, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and ended up because the top-selling feminine rap album final yr. The track itself, a bonus observe, didn’t chart.
It’s unclear whether or not the copying of such a small snippet of phrases quantities to infringement. Copyright legislation doesn’t cowl quick phrases, together with slogans and taglines, nor does it cowl commonplace materials that’s been broadly utilized by others. Whether or not the allegations in opposition to GloRilla clear these thresholds shall be determined by a federal choose.
A rep for GloRilla didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
This isn’t the star’s first tangle with copyright legislation. Again in 2023, GloRilla was hit with a lawsuit claiming she used unlicensed samples from a decades-old New Orleans hip-hop track in her hit songs “Tomorrow” and “Tomorrow 2.” The case was dismissed final yr.
In November, the rapper Plies sued her, together with Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B and others, over claims that the 2024 track “Wanna Be” featured an uncleared pattern from his 2008 observe “Me & My Goons.” However the case was voluntarily dropped in March.