Jacquees Sent Cease & Desist Letter for Remixing Ella Mai's Song

[UserNameless]

On what planet does a popular artist need clout from some unknown, struggling ass artist that's signed to young money?

In the real world, her song is doing better than this dude's bootleg version on literally every metric

The cease and desist order is not an expression of weakness. It's the label doing its job to protect their legal property.

The coli is like an alternate reality it seems.

No you are ... some of y’all keep saying it’s no threat . He’s no threat... But taking legal action is a glaring display to the contrary ... He — and more specifically — his remix IS a threat .


I don’t sue people or institutions I don’t care about and don’t pose a threat.

That takes time and resources.


Drake didn’t sue Lanez over Controlla ... after sending their respective shots at each other, they actually ended up mashing up the versions and performing together.

Drake and his legal team didn’t see it as enough of a threat to initiate legal action .

Clearly Ella and her team see lil ol Quees and his ratchet, lil low budget video for his ratchet, lil low budget remix as a threat


Kinda sad low key.


To summarize yalls characterizations, this is literally like some lil hood nicca doing a cover and shooting a vid on an Obama phone and posting it to YouTube for shyts and giggles...but then unbelievable happened... the lil ratchet shyt got hot.

They know her time is limited. Intellectual property aside, the lawsuit says more about what her label thinks about her than anything else.

 

[Bushmaster]

No you are ... some of y’all keep saying it’s no threat . He’s no threat... But taking legal action is a glaring display to the contrary ... He and, more specifically, his remix IS a threat .


I don’t sue people or institutions I don’t care about and don’t pose a threat.

That takes time and resources.


Drake didn’t sue Lanez over Controlla ... after sending their respective shots at each other, they actually ended up mashing up the versions and performing together.

Drake and his legal team didn’t see it as enough of a threat to initiate legal action .

Clearly Ella and her team see lil ol Quees and his ratchet, lil low budget video for his ratchet, lil low budget remix as a threat


Kinda sad low key.


To summarize yalls characterizations, this is literally like some lil hood nicca doing a cover and shooting a vid on an Obama phone and posting it to YouTube for shuts and giggles...but then unbelievable happened... the lil ratchet shyt got hot.

They know her time is limited. Intellectual property aside, the lawsuit says more about what her label thinks about her than anything else.

Taking legal action to protect your property is a sign of weakness now?

No matter how "hot" it got the original still vastly outperformed it so no.. it was not a "threat" in the sense that it could put a dent in Ella's roll out. It was still blatant theft tho.

The company that owns the song has every right to threaten legal action

Only a fool would try to spin this in favor of that Jacquees breh.

 

[UserNameless]

Taking legal action to protect your property is a sign of weakness now?

No matter how "hot" it got the original still vastly outperformed it so no.. it was not a "threat" in the sense that it could put a dent in Ella's roll out. It was still blatant theft tho.

The company that owns the song has every right to threaten legal action

Only a fool would try to spin this in favor of that Jacquees breh.

Again , this has happened before with other artists signed to majors and there were NO LAWSUITS. Read that slowly .

 

[Bushmaster]

Drake was clowned for doing far less, by the way.

Yet these nikkas are defending blatant theft because they don't fux with Ella Mai. Have some principles ffs

The nikka tried to eat off of somebody else's work... Scust

 

[Bushmaster]

Again , this has happened before with other artists signed to majors and there were NO LAWSUITS. Read that slowly .

They didn't monetize the content. Making mixtapes, covers, tributes etc is not the same as straight up jacking some shyt and running with it.

Plus even if what you say is true, the fact that some other labels opted against pursuing legal action to protect their property rights does not mean that Interscope has to follow the same course

If somebody broke into your house and took your shyt and you didn't notify the police, it does not mean that I have to do the same if my shyt gets broken into..

Fail at basic logic brehs

 

[UserNameless]

They didn't monetize the content. Making mixtapes, covers, tributes etc is not the same as straight up jacking some shyt and running with it.

Plus even if what you say is true, the fact that some other labels opted against pursuing legal action to protect their property rights does not mean that Interscope has to follow the same course

They’ve done videos too... fukk you talking about

Shyt ain’t new


And of course Interscope doesn’t have to follow the same course ... that’s the point . Catch up nicca

 

[Kasgoinjail]

The same people that gave Tevin no props?
O wow

 

[SadimirPutin]

That’s social media for you. Everyone supposedly hates her version now

He also put out a video before her, now hes playing victim for retweets & likes

bingo

Its funny............I thought the Coli HATED people hopping on somebody else's wave

 

[Keengcong]

Don’t this dude got a whole album of his own songs that he just released that he needs to worry about promoting?

I get it, it’s his first legit taste of being noticed big time for being talented. He did a good job on the lil l remix now it’s time to move on to his own shyts. Go on a interview and say that he meant no harm and tell people if they liked that song go listen to the album.

 

[Bushmaster]

Don’t this dude got a whole album of his own songs that he just released that he needs to worry about promoting?

I get it, it’s his first legit taste of being noticed big time for being talented. He did a good job on the lil l remix now it’s time to move on to his own shyts. Go on a interview and say that he meant no harm and tell people if they liked that song go listen to the album.

Basically

 

[Blessings]

Y’all acting like 4275 ain’t the album of the year

 

[Bushmaster]

The nikka can definitely sing. Just needs to be more original and get some better writers

 

[Made Man]

Short-term, little picture thinking vs long-term big picture thinking failure

Short-term: this removes the more popular remix
Little picture: it's all about Ella Mai again

Long term: if she kept the remix alive, every time it plays listeners (subconsciously) also think of her music and it is another way of being relevant
Big picture: by letting other artists doing remixes she gets promoted, she stays at the forefront of the culture, she grows as a star, gets support on her projects

She and her label wanted it to be 1 way, but it's a whole other way. It's not like people are now going to think "I want to hear Jacquees' version, but it's not availabe, so I'll check Ella Mai's", no people are checking for Jacquees more now and are annoyed with her. What she should've done, is create an OFFICIAL REMIX with Jacquees on it and they should've shot a video for it. But.. they chose short-term, little picture. Could've turned this into a win-win..

She's not from the US getting a good foothold in that market, but you know it won't take much for the crowd to turn on her when she goes at a local US artist...

Idk man, i think you got it all wrong

Short term: She gets a little more spins here in the U.S. because people like the Jaqueese song better. She already secured the U.S market with Boo'd up and those same Jaqueese fans that you guys claim she will lose is already checking for her because of the success of Boo'd up. I don't think you guys understand what that 1 song did for her .

Long Term: That hit is associated more with Jaqueese than Ella Mai. That hit will never be looked at the same because you have the "inferior" version after you(or your team) came up with a dope concept, and you put in a solid performance only for someone else to steal that concept you created, analyze it, see what you did right and wrong and then put theirs out . That is wrong on many levels. Her ceiling is much higher internationally than Jaqueese and whatever backlash from "his fans" she will receive is miniature compared to her potential stardom worldwide. I doubt people in Australia, Germany, Sweden, Britain will be checking for Jaqueese in 2 years, however Ella already has an advantage in the international market(Being from Europe).

We have seen many features overshadow the original artist on their own tracks and in a way it become theirs . Look at Wayne, Drake, Chris Brown, Ty Dollar Sign, T-Pain..... When you have a hit doing well without features you don't mess that up. No need to do a remix when you already rolling.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

This is @Stacker Pentecost talking about Ella.



Clearly it's personal

Chick got the nerve to talk about other people caping yet she got a 15 min video obsessed with someone she hates. Weird ass chick man

 

[Made Man]

I would hate to see the business/marketing skills of some people in here. And we wonder why CACS run every damn thing in this world.