After Nipsey Hussle’s death, the products of her store, Marathon, have become a precious commodity that she ran out of all available inventory in the weeks that followed. Beloved prestige and maximum visibility through things like his Grammy wins and a large televised memorial service that Nipsey won praise for his progression efforts in the network from President Obama and Jay-Z. .
However, the problem with this growing popularity is that it would have attracted unscrupulous corporations to the money. According to TMZ, Nipsey’s estate, run through his older brother Samiel Asghedom (also known as Blacc Sam), challenged several e-commerce sites that began promoting counterfeit products with the exclusive Crenshaw logo sold at the Marathon clothing store, as well as other branded houses, such as the marked “South Central State of Mind. “To curb the spread, Sam filed a lawsuit in the state of Illinois, where sites appear to do the most of their marketing, to make all the profits from sales or $2 million consistent with trademark infringement.
The sites look like paintings from China, and while they appear to be other sites, the lawsuit obviously indicates that the sites could work together, due to shared marketing practices, similar spelling mistakes, and “other telltale signs. “
Nipsey Hussle is an artist at Warner Music. Uproxx is a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.