Diamond Dallas Page suing Jay-Z over the Roc Sign Appreciation

[MegaTronBomb!]

Cats really forgot that, years before Jay even became a respectable rapper.. DDP had trademarked that shyt.

On top of that, Jay paid out the ass for biting yet another person.


When you're pretending to be your imaginary father throwing up that diamond...... just know your pretend daddy caught that ether from a Pro Wrestler... and DDP sitting back like " that camel making me all sorts of money"

But of course, Jay was paying Homage to WCW and was planning to start his own wrestling stable

 

[JuvenileHell]

lol did DDP really sue the Camel? I know that the "Roc" sign was originally DDP's "diamond" sign, but I didn't know about a lawsuit

 

[cimalee]

I miss Wcw and the booty babe

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

lol did DDP really sue the Camel? I know that the "Roc" sign was originally DDP's "diamond" sign, but I didn't know about a lawsuit

Diamond Dallas Sues Jay-Z Over 'Diamond Cutter' Hand Sign - Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV.com

 

[No_bammer_weed]

haha....yep. And DDP was well within his rights, and justified in doing so. DDP's diamond symbol was still hot when Jigga and the Roc started biting it, so its not as if DDP was being petty and looking for a paycheck for nothing. Jigga was legitimately infringing on his trademarked symbol in real time.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

fukk outta here, Delta's been throwing that up since 1913, both of them can sit all the way the fukk down

edit: and who is that dude?

 

[Solomon Caine]

Yeah Camel paid up and Page agreed to drop the legal proceedings. I remember my home boy tellin me that its DDPs symbol when jay n them started using it.. I wasn't into Wrestling and didn't know why Diamond was @ da time.

 

[Prodigital]

Also looks a lot like the sign from the game assassins creed.

I'm sure hov had a hand in that tho

 

[JuvenileHell]

Diamond Dallas Sues Jay-Z Over 'Diamond Cutter' Hand Sign - Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV.com

Forget about Soulja Boy/Game, Sean Knowles is the true Shang Tsung of the rap game

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

fukk outta here, Delta's been throwing that up since 1913, both of them can sit all the way the fukk down

edit: and who is that dude?

He trademarked it tho... and had been selling T Shirts and merchandise with said logo.

Black sororities only care about boycotting Nelly cause he made the tip drill video.

 

[DontEemTry]

Some background

"“People were telling me that Jay-Z was stealing my sign and I’m like, who? I thought it was cool, I thought he was a fan. Herschel Walker did it in the end-zone in 1996 and when they asked him why he was doing it, he told them ‘I’m a big Diamond Dallas Page fan.’ Karl Malone did it in a playoff game. So why wouldn’t I think Jay-Z was a fan?” Page said.

“When I first heard about it, I thought he was giving me props. Months later, someone told me that Lebron James did it and I was thinking, ‘How cool is this, a whole other generation’ and I was telling one of my buddies about it and he tells me, ‘Dude, Lebron isn’t doing it for you.’ Then I found out about an interview Jay-Z had courtside during Lebron’s rookie season and they asked him, ‘Why does Lebron keep looking at you and making that sign,’ and he said, ‘That’s my sign’. That’s when I started to make phone calls.”

Page insists that while he respects Jay-Z as a person and for what he’s done in the music industry, the hand gesture is, and forever will be, associated with him and not the rapper.

“I had seven people yesterday, just walking around Los Angeles to the bank and Home Depot, flash me the Diamond Cutter sign. I haven’t really been on TV in four years, but that’s how I’m identified. That’s my sign. His lawyer dissed me pretty hard, so I just said, ‘Let the courts decide,’ said Page. “I’ll bring all my proof and he’ll bring his proof; what he has supposedly before 1996 and we’ll let the courts decide it. I can prove what I have; I can’t wait for this to go to court.”"

 

[dre]

Some background

"“People were telling me that Jay-Z was stealing my sign and I’m like, who? I thought it was cool, I thought he was a fan. Herschel Walker did it in the end-zone in 1996 and when they asked him why he was doing it, he told them ‘I’m a big Diamond Dallas Page fan.’ Karl Malone did it in a playoff game. So why wouldn’t I think Jay-Z was a fan?” Page said.

“When I first heard about it, I thought he was giving me props. Months later, someone told me that Lebron James did it and I was thinking, ‘How cool is this, a whole other generation’ and I was telling one of my buddies about it and he tells me, ‘Dude, Lebron isn’t doing it for you.’ Then I found out about an interview Jay-Z had courtside during Lebron’s rookie season and they asked him, ‘Why does Lebron keep looking at you and making that sign,’ and he said, ‘That’s my sign’. That’s when I started to make phone calls.”

Page insists that while he respects Jay-Z as a person and for what he’s done in the music industry, the hand gesture is, and forever will be, associated with him and not the rapper.

“I had seven people yesterday, just walking around Los Angeles to the bank and Home Depot, flash me the Diamond Cutter sign. I haven’t really been on TV in four years, but that’s how I’m identified. That’s my sign. His lawyer dissed me pretty hard, so I just said, ‘Let the courts decide,’ said Page. “I’ll bring all my proof and he’ll bring his proof; what he has supposedly before 1996 and we’ll let the courts decide it. I can prove what I have; I can’t wait for this to go to court.”"

it was his at first but not no more

even if Jay paid for it it was still worth it, it was kind of genius to come up with a way that anyone could rep and recognize the brand without even buying anything...and it wasn't something white america could say was a gang sign

but this reminds me of this time in high school a piano player came and played for us

they introduced the assembly as a producer for rocafella i was like oh shyt just blaze or somebody's about to come out...but this nerdish guy with a small sweater walks out, no one recognizes him...he talked to us and it came out that he played piano on a couple of their records...in hindsight he was probably someone Kanye knew and called in every so often cause he dressed like he was in that circle...

...anyways after every piece he played he got up and put up the //\\ or whatever for mad long like he wanted us to get up and do it or something...i think back on that like

you probably barely got credits on the album and you acting like you got a chain on under that tight ass shirt...just shows how big their movement was at one time i guess

 

[Cole Cash]

it was his at first but not no more

even if Jay paid for it it was still worth it, it was kind of genius to come up with a way that anyone could rep and recognize the brand without even buying anything...and it wasn't something white america could say was a gang sign

but this reminds me of this time in high school a piano player came and played for us

they introduced the assembly as a producer for rocafella i was like oh shyt just blaze or somebody's about to come out...but this nerdish guy with a small sweater walks out, no one recognizes him...he talked to us and it came out that he played piano on a couple of their records...in hindsight he was probably someone Kanye knew and called in every so often cause he dressed like he was in that circle...

...anyways after every piece he played he got up and put up the //\\ or whatever for mad long like he wanted us to get up and do it or something...i think back on that like

you probably barely got credits on the album and you acting like you got a chain on under that tight ass shirt...just shows how big their movement was at one time i guess

If you have ever been in a studio with some of these big names, you realize that these guys are more key to the movement behind the scenes than you think. for all you know, he engineered, re edited, controlled the session and directed the actual music notes and replays for someone in that building.

The fact that he was playing the piano tells you alot about his abilites as opposed to opening up serrato and going on autoplay.

 

[dre]

meh...it's possible...he was still flexin hard though

 

[Ineedmoney504]

i was a big wresting fan back in the g, so in the 90s i knew of the diamond cuter, but took that shyt, i dont even think it was something he took from him, once they started talkin bout being the dynasty it just came natural, but thats jay symbol now tho