DaBaby has discovered a collection of Mary Jane-friendly products with his face on them, and he wasn’t going to allow them to be sold without getting his fair share of licensing fees.
In an Instagram Live video posted on Saturday (March 23), the “Suge” rapper stopped by an unidentified smoke shop to confront the owner about paraphernalia that featured his likeness.
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“We gotta discuss this, man,” he said in the video. “What this is, bruh? Well, I need my percentage. You gotta give me one for free or something!”
After discovering that one such bit of paraphernalia was retailing for $49.99, he remarked that the owner needed to give him “$4.99,” or ten percent of each sale, to which the shopkeeper agreed.
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Last month, DaBaby made headlines when he threw away his Jordans in protest of his treatment at a Hornets game.
Taking to Instagram with an unboxing of the new “Coach Prime” Nike sneakers on February 13, the North Carolina native gave Sanders his flowers as he noted that while he likes Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan, he never received any free kicks from him.
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“Hey OG – I appreciate ya always checking checking on me, chiming in [and] making sure my head in the right space,” DaBaby noted before going into why he was choosing Prime and his sneakers over Jordan and his.
“I’m rocking with Prime, n-gga. I fuck with MJ but he ain’t ever sent me shit,” he said as he took off his Js. “Yo public service announcement. I rock with MJ. I fuck with MJ but he ain’t never sent me shit and at the Hornets games when the players will come and I had my courtside seats, y’all ain’t never let me shoot the ball.
“So I’m fucking with Prime. They let me throw the ball when I went out there to Colorado.”
The cancellation stemmed from the homophobic statements the rapper made at Rolling Loud Miami in 2021 – and he recently revealed the moment cost him a staggering $200million.
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The “Suge” rapper sat down with Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast last November, where he revealed that despite losing such an eye-watering amount, he realized that it was also a teachable moment that came with an important lesson.
