[dead]

Can't think of a much dumber lawsuit off the top of my head.

[TexKat]

You beat me to posting this. Good, isn't anything sacred any more.

[samtheman]

That's a shame. :)

[smith288]

But she wont sue Ice Cube and Cedric 'The Entertainer' for saying she was just a secretary for NAACP who wouldnt move?

That scene in "Barbershop" was hillarious.

[diamondjoe]

Yet another example of the "old guard" of the civil rights era being passed by as the new guard--which is not as tied to dogma--brings in the dollars. Jesse Jackson suing "Barbershop" is one example, and this lame lawsuit by Rosa Parks is another. If Rosa thinks she can win a p.r. war against OutKast, she's dreaming.

Memo to Ms. Parks--when you are an historical figure, you lose the right to have every say over how your name is used.

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[yonif]

I've listened to that song. Maybe she wants to make money off it?

[Physicist]

As sincerely as I admire Mrs. Parks, I have to side with the rappers on this one. The First Amendment cuts both ways; may its edges stay forever sharp.

[veronica]

Good for her. By and large the rappers are scummy and their "music" is crap.

[VOYAGER]

But the high court rejected the appeal without comment.

Where's the surprise, isn't that the usual left end tripple handoff run performed by this "candy assed" U.S. "soopreem" court?

This way no face can be put to a "super liayer" on the court and another silver bullet is skillfully dodged by the Wimpy Time Kids!

[King Prout]

hahahahahahahaha

[Republican Red]

Isn't OutKast the group that Wesley Clark keeps namedropping?

Clark is running with a crowd that is being sued by Roas Parks. HAHAHAHAHAHAH.

[newgeezer]

Parks ... sued in 1999, claiming use of her name without permission ... infringed on her right to publicity.

The often-cited "right to privacy" is ridiculous enough. But, a "right to publicity"? BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-...

[whattajoke]

(I post this as an FYI, not trying to sway opinion one way or another... BUT, I think her lawsuit is nonsense).

FYI, the album that this song appeared on won a bunch of critical music awards.

Also, OutKast is slated to win a bunch more for their latest album they released this year.

Here's the lyrics from "Bombs over Baghdad" from the same Stankonia album... which I've yet to figure out.

[Dre]
1, 2.. 1, 2, 3; yeah!
In-slum-national, underground
Thunder pounds when I stomp the ground (Woo!)
Like a million elephants with silverback orangutans
You can't stop a train
Who want some? Don't come un-pre-pared
I'll be there, but when I leave there
Better be a household name
Weather man tellin' us it ain't gon' rain
So now we sittin' in a drop-top, soakin wet
In a silk suit, tryin' not to sweat
Hits somersaults without the net
But this'll be the year that we won't forget
One-Nine-Nine-Nine, Ano Domini, anything goes, be whatchu wanna be
Long as you know consequences are given for livin - the fence is
too high to jump in jail
Too low to dig, I might just touch hell - HOT!
Get a life, now they gon' sell
Then I might catch you a spell, look at what came in the mail
A scale and some Arm and Hammer, so grow grid and some baby máma
Black Cadillac and a pack of pampers
Stack of question with no answers
Cure for cancer, cure for AIDS
Make a nigga wanna stay on tour for days
Get back home, things are wrong
Well not really, it was bad all along
before you left adds up to a ball of power
Thoughts at a thousands miles per hour
Hello, ghetto, let your brain breathe
Believe there's always mo', OWWWW!

Chorus: 2X
[Dre] Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
{Choir} Bombs over Baghdad!
[Dre] Yeah! Ha ha yeah!
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
{Choir} Bombs over Baghdad!
{Dre} Yeah! Uhh-huh

[Big Boi]
Uno, dos, tres, it's on
Did you ever think a pimp rock a microphone?
Like that there boi and will still stay street
Big things happen every time we meet
Like a track team, crack fiend, dyin to geek
Outkast bumpin' up and down the street
Slam back, Cadillac, 'bout five nigga deep
Seventy-five emcee's freestylin' to the beat
Cause we get krunk, stay drunk, at the club
Should have bought an ounce, but you caught the dub
Should have held back, but you throwed the punch
'Spose to meet your girl but you packed a lunch
No D to-the U to-the G for you
Got a son on the way by the name of Bamboo
Got a little baby girl four year, Jordan
Never turn my back on my kids for them
Should have hit it (hit it) quit it (quit it) rag (rag) top (top)
Before you read up, get a laptop
Make a business for yourself, boy, set some goals
Make a fair diamond out of dusty coals
Record number four, but we on a roll
Hold up, slow up, stop, +Control+
like Janet, planets, Stankonia's on ya
Movin like Floyd comin' straight to Florida
Lock all your windows then block the quarters
Pullin' off on bell 'cause a whippins in order
Like a three piece fist, 'fore I cut your daughter
Yo quiero Taco Bell, then I hit the border
Penny pap rappers tryin' to get the five
I'm a microphone fiend tryin' to stay alive
When you come to ATL boi you better not hide
cause the Dungeon Family gon' ride, hah!

Chorus: 2X
[Dre] Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
{Choir} Bombs over Baghdad!
[Dre] Yeah! Ha ha yeah!
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
{Choir} Bombs over Baghdad!
{Dre} Yeah! Uhh-huh

{Choir}
Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah
Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah
Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah
Bombs over Baghdad! Yeah

[Dre]
B-I-G, B-O-I
An-An-Andre
To the T-O-P

[Dre and Big Boi]: 15X
Bob your head. Rag top.

(1, 2.. 1, 2, 3, 4) (Gimme some)

{Choir}: 23X
Po-wer music, electric revival

[weegee]

Sounds like she didn't use Bill O'Reilly's legal team (good call).

She's a public figure whether she wants to acknowledge it. Disney never paid Daniel Boone's heirs and think of all those hats that they sold in the 1950s.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, maybe it's time for me to write a new rap song called "Rosa Parks' Lawsuit Trigga Finga Be itchin'"

[dfwgator]

I wonder if OutKast didn't have the current Number 1 song in the country would this lawsuit have been brought when it was?

[El Gato]

Supreme Court Allows Rosa Parks to Sue Rap Duo

They did no such thing. The Court of Appeals did that, the Supreme court merely declined to hear the case, for whatever or no reason at all, since the article states they refused to grant cert and had "no comment".

[Republican Wildcat]

LaFace Records, the record producer

hmm...I've just changed my mind. This is French-sounding, or close enough. Sue the pants off them!