Yung Gravy is Being SUED

The rap icon is going to court for the craziest reason ever.

[kaidenwilleford]

You know the rules...
Rick Astley will win this fight.

[thischanelnolongerexists]

And then it turns out he just wanted to rick roll him in court

[Zerolusa]

Rick Astley will just rickroll the judges until they surrender and send Yung Gravy to jail

[hushex]

Using the instrumental is fine, and hiring someone to redo the vocals is fine too. But to have him copy Rick’s voice is scummy

[Tom_Hillman]

To be fair, if gravy agreed to only use the instrumental just to go behind rick astley's back and hire an impersonator, that is not ok.

[angelparrilla]

Id say if he had another person do vocals and its creditted gravy'll probably slide on it. But I feel like it'd also depend on how actually differently placed the lyrics are and everything.

[Funkehh.]

You know the rules, and so do I..
SAY GOODBYE!


-Famous last words

[y]

Gravy shouldn’t have used an impersonator if he wasn’t allowed to. But it honestly isn’t that big of a deal since most of the song was gravy singing.

[thandilesishuba]

Why does this dude sound like one of the guys in the YT channel The Round table

[thepancakereviewer]

Can i take the time to say that ive never understood the hype behind Yung Gravy. His music always sounded like the definition of legacy sampling, and he always sounded more bored than cool.

[oztuskify]

Like trying to copyright somebody elses voice because it sounds like yours? There's a fine line between bullsh*t and horsesh*t.

[JimboCruntz]

But for the vocals to not be included, that means yung gravy didn’t pay enough for the rights.

So yung gravy getting an impersonator isn’t okay, if he wanted vocal rights he should pay for them. That’s how this works. This isn’t a “did they didn’t they steal” question. What he’s done isn’t parody or fair use, it’s theft of creative property.

[ophello]

I have no idea who this is and I wish that was true for the rest of humanity.

[AnUglyBarnacle]

Sampling and interpolating (hiring an impersonator for example) are complex legal issues and some dumbass YouTube commenters aren’t going to be the wise council to decide what’s fair

[grahambins]

Big fan of these music factoid shorts. Keep it up mintalicious

[christianstrange]

Well I mean it’s not heard to redo his voice

[christianmccauley]

I mean… why are we rooting for gravy? He explicitly and knowingly broke the terms of a contract, a contract he signed to he would be able to use the work of someone else.

I can’t imagine he won’t get dunked on in court. It’s like, an insanely clear attempt to break terms of a contract

[terrymcdonald]

Yeah, why wouldn’t you be cool with someone stealing your voice and making a ton of money off of it??

[DropDMurphy]

Were all the cool names already taken? Really..Yung Gravy?

[zestyclose_village]

I love hip hop. But I hate when rappers sample and blatantly steal others artists work and try to pass it off as their own.