Hip Hop is a Golden Goose

And Corporations Keep Extracting Gold

Gabriel Patterson
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
4 min readMar 25, 2022

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The Notorious B.I.G. poses wearing a Kangol for his Greatest Hits album on Bad Boy records.
Bad Boy Records ©

Surely you’ve seen an ad for the Biggie Bag. Tell me this: If the Notorious B.I.G. never existed would Wendy’s have stumbled upon the precarious name of the Biggie Bag? No way. Not buying it. In fact, commerce is getting lax in what is and what isn’t considered public domain, especially regarding hip-hop. Once, when The Notorious B.I.G. went by the moniker…

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