OT Is Nike appropriating Public Enemy for their basketball commercials?

SHOULD BE MISAPPROPRIATING BROS. MOMENTARY LAPSE SINCE I WAS SO TRIGGERED.

Newest commercial uses "Shut em Down", which was a politically charged rap song in the early 90s.



Nike Commercial:

 

Fucking cracka azz Wieden and Kennedy.

 

Is that song old enough they can use it without permission?

 

Appropriation?? This thread is stupid.

They PAID PE for that...

 

I bet Flavor Flav REALLY needs the $. I hear he only has a pocket watch hanging round his neck these days.

 

Wrong. He's worth about 9 Mil.

 

It's really more of a case of someone not understanding a song, like playing Green Day's "Good Riddance" at a graduation, or the Police's "every step you take" at a wedding.

 

That's what I wanted to know

 

There is no God.

 

Wait until you find out Flava Flav IS God.

 

More likely they paid the record label. Who knows how much PE actually got. The song actually bashes Nike for doing what this marketing campaign is doing.

Plus its the principle of the matter, the song was a political statement about consumerism and exploiting the poor communities, yet they are marketing $200 sneakers to kids that can't afford them.

 

Fucking jealous as usual.

This thread is interesting to me because this song is my favorite PE song and the Nike line is my favorite line in it.

Would be like Arizona using By the Time I get to Arizona in a tourism ad.

 

or using Fight the Power at a Trump Rally.

 

Re: Flavor Flav

http://variety.com/2017/music/news/flavor-flav-chuck-d-public-enemy-royalties-lawsuit-1202543573/

 

To me, this is Public Enemy eventually selling out. Which is a shame, I was a huge fan of them.

 

You're trippin. And you must have no clue about why the Flava Flav Character exists.

He is supposed to be the epitome of what white America thinks about Black people generally. He played is part to a T and we love him for it.

911 is still a fuckin' joke.

 

I can't afford em. Lebron wouldn't buy em anyway if he's as cheap as he says.

 

I was at a UNLV game that he played drums with the band. One of the greatest things I've ever seen.

 

This is bullshit. Straight garbage take. The song fits the commercial. The commercial is FUCKING AWESOME and you call them sellouts?

Garbage.

 

Lodi totally should use CCR's Stuck in Lodi Again for their ads.