GloRilla is pushing back against a lawsuit accusing her of lifting a BBL-related lyric.
According to court filings reviewed by Billboard, the rapper has asked a judge to dismiss the copyright infringement case claiming she stole the line “natural, no BBL” for her 2024 track “Never Find.”
The suit, filed in June by Instagram user Natalie Henderson, alleges that she originally came up with the phrase in her own song, which included the lyric: “All natural, no BBL / Mad hoes go to hell.” GloRilla’s version, meanwhile, goes: “Natural, no BBL / But I’m still gon’ give him hell.”
Henderson’s attorney argued that “there are unmistakable similarities between the two works.”
But in a motion filed Monday (Sept. 8), GloRilla’s legal team fired back, claiming the phrase isn’t eligible for copyright.
“The phrase ‘natural[e], no BBL’ — referring to a person with a natural body who has not undergone the ‘Brazilian Butt Lift’ cosmetic procedure — is too common, everyday, trite, and cliched to be protectable by copyright,” her lawyers wrote.
They pointed to other songs over the last two years that used similar expressions, and argued that even if Henderson’s line could be protected, there’s “no evidence” GloRilla ever heard it. “Anyone who listens to the two songs should easily reach the conclusion that these songs are not substantially similar,” the filing stated.
“Never Find,” featuring K Carbon, appears on GloRilla’s 2024 debut album Glorious.
As Billboard notes, copyright law doesn’t extend to short phrases, slogans, or widely used expressions.
This isn’t GloRilla’s first brush with legal drama. In 2023, she faced a suit over alleged unlicensed samples in her hit “Tomorrow” and “Tomorrow 2” with Cardi B, though that case was dismissed. Another case involving her, Megan Thee Stallion, and Cardi B over the track “Wanna Be” was dropped earlier this year.
