Welp...Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo now in legal dispute over NEPTUNES name rights

[Artificial Intelligence]

Not skateboard P being a dirtbag

 

[BobbyWojak]

man what in the entire fuhk??

Lmao he went a little too far but Pharrell, Neptunes and NERD are overrated

 

[JuvenileHell]

this is as bad as when Mobb Deep broke up that one time

 

[Awesome Wells]

this is as bad as when Mobb Deep broke up that one time

This is much worse.

Hav would've never done Prodigy dirty for a dollar.

 

[jadillac]

Eh, even if Chad has done nothing in the last decade plus, the Neptunes were both of them, and they apparently agreed to split everything.

Why should he be cool with Pharrell trying to trademark the shyt under his sole ownership?

But is Pharrell still going under the name, Neptunes? I haven't seen "Neptunes" name in years.

When i read album credits it just says, "produced/written by Pharrell Williams" , not by the Neptunes.

 

[Awesome Wells]

But is Pharrell still going under the name, Neptunes? I haven't seen "Neptunes" name in years.

When i read album credits it just says, "produced/written by Pharrell Williams" , not by the Neptunes.

Chad said he worked on the last Pusha T album on songs that should've said "Neptunes", but Pharrell put just his name on the songs and didn't credit Chad. When he was in GQ, he said his lawyers are straightening that out with Pharrell now.

 

[Canon]

welp hope the brehs can work it out

 

[Patrick Kane]

I don’t like this

They need to make up and drop that new NERD album they was working on

 

[Rekkapryde]

they need to fix that shyt.

 

[Still Benefited]

man what in the entire fuhk??

Alot of those beats we thought were tuff in the 2000s have aged horribly,and were actually terrible in hindsight. Neptunes are one of the biggest culprits who profited the most. Due to their success and being one of the last big prodcers,recency bias has them respected and placed too high based on their name. They not the worst,they are the worst most respected. Meaning the most overated of all the big name,legendary producers you can probably think of.

The musical "Stomp" is the Neptunes career in a nutshell. Just a stupid stupid sound that was thought to be genius because it was "different"








They were part of that whole "Bu bu but its different" wave that helped kill hiphop

 

[I love Latina women]

 

[Fanservice]

They ruined enough songs with those unfinished beats people thought were genius,and Pharrells weak voice. Easily the worst,most respected producers in hiphop history.


And yes this probably seems like a "hot take", because its random and has nothing to do with this thread. But its not,Ive just been waiting to say it

Nikka probably got half a mil for that fruity loop ass Drop It Like It’s Hot beat. Shyt sound like he made it by beating on a desk and clicking his tongue. I’m a hater too, fukk it

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

money ruins everything

And no-one ever really dies

 

[Ziggiy]

My thing is, we know what Pharrell has done the past decade plus.

What has Chad produced or put out?

I've heard artists talk about Pharrell making a beat right in front of them and doing the song by himself

And from album credits, he's not crediting the "Neptunes" name. So what is Chad filing for?

Is it a case where he's saying that anything Pharrell does he has a right to?

Chad is filing because apparently Pharrell is using the Neptune's trademark for business decisions without cutting Chad in on the decisions or the money made. This has little to nothing to do with production credits and everything to do with branding & marketing

If you and I enter into an equal partnership called “Coli Posters” and 20 years down the line you are a more prolific writer than me, it still does not grant you the right to slap the “Coli Writers” name on a burger chain simply because you kept writing. You’d need my say so to use the name and brand for the burger chain. If you said “fukk that nikka, he ain’t wrote a coli post in 10 years” I could still file suit for you fraudulently using the name without permission.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

They ruined enough songs with those unfinished beats people thought were genius,and Pharrells weak voice. Easily the worst,most respected producers in hiphop history.


And yes this probably seems like a "hot take", because its random and has nothing to do with this thread. But its not,Ive just been waiting to say it

They are actual geniuses. The fact that they used lame factory sounds to sell MILLIONS of records and stay among the charts made me respect them even more in the years following. I didn't like those beats then or now with the same drum and keyboard sounds. The only beats I would like from them mostly were their Clipse tracks. But I respect them.