Marjorie Taylor Greene has agreed to stop using Dr. Dre’s music after the rapper slapped her with a cease and desist letter following the use of his song in a video promoting the new House Republican majority.
The Republican representative, who used a riff from his song Still DRE in her video, told Dre’s attorney that she would no longer use his “copyright” in a letter sent by his staff and obtained by TMZ.
“On behalf of Congresswoman Greene, please note that no further use of Mr. Young’s copyright will be made by any political committee or social media outlet she controls,” the letter read in part. “Nothing herein shall be deemed an admission of any fact or a waiver of any right or defense,” she added.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has agreed to stop using Dr. Dre’s music after the rapper slapped her with a cease and desist letter following the use of his song in a video promoting the new House Republican majority.
Greene’s letter came well before the deadline imposed by Dre’s attorney, Howard King, in the earlier cease-and-desist, which urged her to provide “written confirmation” according to the lawsuits by Jan. 11. at 5 p.m. EST.
Greene defiantly criticized the rapper, whose legal name is Andre Young, for his lyrics before receiving the letter.
“While I appreciate the creative chord progression, I would never touch your words of violence against women and police officers, and your glorification of thug life and drugs.” Greene told TMZ and then tweeted.
On Monday morning, Greene posted a video of herself walking through the House office building, speaking on the phone with former Speaker Donald Trump on Friday night, and taking a selfie with new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. .
Legal battle: The Republican representative, who used a riff from his song Still DRE in his video, informed Dre’s lawyer that he would no longer use his ‘copyright’ in a letter sent by his staff and obtained by TMZ
Greene tweeted a statement he gave to TMZ going after rapper Dr. Dre, after his lawyer went after him for using “Still DRE” in a video the Georgia Republican posted to social media Monday.
“It’s time to start… and they can’t stop what’s coming,” he wrote, with the familiar tune of “Still DRE” playing throughout the less than two-minute video.
A lawyer for the rapper managed to get Twitter to remove the video.
Instead, the social networking site said: “This media has been disabled in response to a report from the copyright owner.”
The cease and desist letter from Dre’s lawyer obtained by TMZ tore down the Georgia legislator.
“He is mistakenly displaying this work through various social media outlets to promote his hateful and divisive political agenda,” attorney Howard King wrote.
Dr. Dre’s lawyer managed to get Twitter to remove video of the Georgia congresswoman after she used a riff on ‘Still DRE’ in an ad to promote the new Republican House majority.
King wrote that Dre would never give Greene permission to use his music.
“One might expect that, as a member of Congress, I would have a passing familiarity with the laws of our country,” King said.
“However, it is possible that the laws governing intellectual property are too arcane and insufficiently populist for you to have really spent much time on them,” the lawyer continued. “We are writing because we believe that a real legislator should make laws and not break them, especially those incorporated into the constitution by the founding fathers.”
King noted that US Copyright Law prohibits politicians from using musicians’ songs for political campaigns unless the official gets permission from the copyright holder, “a step he didn’t take,” he told her. the lawyer to Greene.
“You are hereby required to cease and desist any further unauthorized use of Andre Young’s music,” King said.
With that, Greene hit out at Dre on Twitter, suggesting that his music, from the 1990s gangsta rap era, was sexist and gratuitous.