{"id":1555,"date":"2016-10-01T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jsel\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T16:00:08","slug":"a-possible-legal-trap-for-trap-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jsel\/2016\/10\/a-possible-legal-trap-for-trap-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"A Possible Legal Trap for \u201cTrap Queen\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jsel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/Fetty_Wap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1556\" src=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jsel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/Fetty_Wap-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"fetty_wap\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jsel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/Fetty_Wap-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jsel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2016\/10\/Fetty_Wap.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/2937578\/fetty-wap-trap-queen-lawsuit\/?xrs=_m.app_txt\">MTV News<\/a>, if it were up to Danish musician Lazar Lakic, we would all be living in a Trap Queen-less world. Lakic is suing rapper Fetty Wap and producer Tony Fadd over their quadruple platinum and Grammy nominated hit song \u201cTrap Queen\u201d on grounds that he is the true owner of the track\u2019s underlying beat. The crux of the suit is that Lakick originally purchased the exclusive rights to the song \u201cHello,\u201d which was sampled in \u201cTrap Queen,\u201d from Fadd in 2014 but less than a year later, after \u201cTrap Queen\u201d became a rousing success, Fadd asked to re-purchase the rights to the song but Lakic refused. Lakic claims that he has yet to receive a cent of the song\u2019s earnings despite being the true owner and is calling for the prohibition on the sale of the song and the destruction of all copies. However,\u00a0Fetty Wap\u2019s attorney, Navarro Gray, claims that Lakic\u2019s suit lacks any and all merit as Fetty Wap legally purchased the song and has the documentation to prove it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Loren Shokes (Class of 2017) is the Executive Editor of Online Content and the Online Interview Editor for the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to MTV News, if it were up to Danish musician Lazar Lakic, we would all be living in a Trap Queen-less world. Lakic is suing rapper Fetty Wap and producer Tony Fadd over their quadruple platinum and Grammy nominated hit song \u201cTrap Queen\u201d on grounds that he is the true owner of the track\u2019s 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