Nipsey Hussle’s Estate Settles with Crips Over “The Marathon Continues” Trademark
Written by laserteam on March 26, 2021
The marathon can officially continue. Nipsey Hussle’s estate settles with the Crips over ‘Marathon’ Trademark.
Nipsey Hussle’s estate has reportedly settled their lawsuit against the Crips over “The Marathon Continues” trademark, according to TMZ. On Thursday (March 25), Nipsey’s brother, Samiel “Blacc Sam” Asghedom, informed the L.A. County court that they reached the settlement with Crips LLC.
Last October, the Victory Lap emcee’s estate sued the corporate part of the gang over the rights to the infamous slogan. In the lawsuit, they claimed that the Crips filed a trademark for the catchphrase less than two months after “Hussle & Motivate” rapper was fatally shot outside his Marathon Clothing Store in Los Angeles.
However, Crips LLC filed to trademark the slogan 12 days earlier than him. They wanted to use it for several services, including “developing educational manuals for others in the field of community organizing, gang prevention and gang intervention.” The company later issued an apology to Nip’s family and said that they would not move forward in their journey to be granted a trademark for the slogan.
The statement also says that the Crips “respectively vow to support the wishes of Lauren London and the Asghedom family.”
“The Marathon Continues” became a popular catchphrase among fans following Hussle’s tragic death back in March 2019. Besides naming his clothing store after the slogan, he also named two mixtapes, The Marathon (2010) and The Marathon Continues (2011), after it as well.
