GloRilla Wants Lawsuit Dismissed – Says Nobody Can Copyright ‘BBL’ Catchphrase

GloRilla wants to extremity suit claiming she stole the lyric “natural, nary BBL” from a viral catchphrase, telling a justice that cipher tin copyright that benignant of abbreviated and “cliched” expression.

The case, filed this summer, claims that an Instagram idiosyncratic named Natalie Henderson coined the operation — a notation to “Brazilian butt lift” country – and that GloRilla (Gloria Woods) aboriginal stole it for usage successful her 2024 opus “Never Find” without permission.

But successful a Monday question asking the justice to disregard the full case, the rapper’s lawyers accidental there’s 1 large occupation with the lawsuit: That copyright instrumentality doesn’t adjacent screen specified a “commonplace” bid of words.

“The operation ‘natural[e], nary BBL’ —referring to a idiosyncratic with a earthy assemblage who has not undergone the ‘Brazilian Butt Lift’ cosmetic procedure—is excessively common, everyday, trite, and cliched to beryllium protectable by copyright,” her lawyers constitute successful the filing, obtained Billboard.

GloRilla’s attorneys cites 7 different songs that person featured akin expressions astir BBLs implicit the past 2 years, including by rapper Real Boston Richey: “The operation astatine contented successful plaintiff’s opus is not archetypal and frankincense not copyrightable.

And adjacent if Henderson’s alleged catchphrase was copyrightable, GloRilla’s lawyers accidental her opus didn’t transcript it. They accidental there’s nary grounds that she ever heard Henderson’s phrase, and that she utilized a markedly antithetic 1 successful “Never Find”: “Anyone who listens to the 2 songs should easy scope the decision that these songs are not substantially similar.”

“Never Find,” featuring K Carbon, was featured connected GloRilla’s debut workplace medium Glorious, which peaked astatine No. 5 connected the Billboard 200 and ended up arsenic the top-selling pistillate rap medium past year. The opus itself, a bonus track, did not chart.

Henderson (@slimdabodylast connected Instagram) filed her suit successful June, citing not lone her viral operation but besides a opus that she wrote, which featured the lyric “All natural, nary BBL/ Mad hoes spell to hell.” GloRilla’s lyric reads: “Natural, nary BBL/ but I’m inactive gon’ springiness him hell.”

“There are unmistakable similarities betwixt the 2 works,” Henderson’s lawyer wrote astatine the time.

But arsenic Billboard reported astatine the time, specified claims ever apt faced an uphill conflict successful court. Copyright instrumentality does not screen abbreviated phrases, including slogans and taglines, nor does it screen commonplace worldly that’s been wide utilized by others. That’s precisely the statement that GloRilla’s lawyers made connected Monday.

Over her little career, the prima has already faced respective copyright cases – thing of a rite of transition for immoderate rising artist.

In 2023, she was deed with a suit claiming she utilized unlicensed samples successful her deed songs “Tomorrow” and “Tomorrow 2”; the lawsuit was dismissed past year. And past year, she was sued alongside Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B and others implicit claims that the 2024 opus “Wanna Be” featured an uncleared illustration from Plies’ 2008 way “Me & My Goons.” That lawsuit was voluntarily dropped earlier this year.