{"id":6596,"date":"2025-06-20T23:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/glorilla-stole-viral-catchphrase-and-used-it-in-song-lyrics-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:23:27","slug":"glorilla-stole-viral-catchphrase-and-used-it-in-song-lyrics-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/glorilla-stole-viral-catchphrase-and-used-it-in-song-lyrics-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"GloRilla Stole Viral Catchphrase and Used It in Song Lyrics: Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tGloRilla is facing a copyright lawsuit from a social media personality who says the rapper stole her viral catchphrase \u2014 \u201call natural, no BBL\u201d \u2014 and used it in her 2024 song \u201cNever Find\u201d without permission.<\/p>\n

\n\tNatalie Henderson \u2014 aka @slimdabodylast on Instagram<\/a> \u2014 says she went viral last year with the phrase, seemingly a reference to not needing a \u201cBrazilian butt lift\u201d cosmetic surgery. She says she then turned it into a song with lyrics including \u201cAll natural, no BBL\/ Mad hoes go to hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a case filed Wednesday (June 20) in Louisiana federal court, Henderson claims that GloRilla (Gloria Woods) violated federal copyright law by copying those lyrics into her 2024 track \u201cNever Find,\u201d which features the line: \u201cNatural, no BBL\/ but I\u2019m still gon\u2019 give him hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere are unmistakable similarities between the two works,\u201d Henderson\u2019s attorney writes. \u201cBased upon a side-by-side comparison of the two songs, a layperson could hear similarities in the lyrics, arrangement, melody, core expression, content, and other compositional elements in both songs and conclude that songs are essentially identical.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNever Find,\u201d featuring K Carbon, was featured on GloRilla\u2019s debut studio album Glorious<\/em>, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and ended up as the top-selling female rap album last year. The song itself, a bonus track, did not chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s unclear whether the copying of such a small snippet of words amounts to infringement. Copyright law does not cover short phrases, including slogans and taglines, nor does it cover commonplace material that\u2019s been widely used by others. Whether the allegations against GloRilla clear those thresholds will be decided by a federal judge.<\/p>\n

\n\tA rep for GloRilla did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the star\u2019s first tangle with copyright law. Back in 2023, GloRilla was hit with a lawsuit claiming she used unlicensed samples from a decades-old New Orleans hip-hop song in her hit songs \u201cTomorrow\u201d and \u201cTomorrow 2.\u201d The case was dismissed last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn November, the rapper Plies sued her, along with Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B and others, over claims that the 2024 song \u201cWanna Be\u201d featured an uncleared sample from his 2008 track \u201cMe & My Goons.\u201d But the case was voluntarily dropped in March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n