Nipsey Hussle‘s estate has released a legal fight against the Crips.

According to TMZ, the late rapper’s brother Samiel Asghedom is suing Crips LLC. about trademark legal rights to “The Marathon Proceeds”—a slogan that has develop into synonymous with Nipsey’s brand. The fit statements the Los Angeles-based avenue gang attempted to trademark the phrase “for many companies” and garments in 2019, just a pair of months following Nipsey was fatally shot. The estate details out that the spouse and children already secured “Marathon” emblems for several expert services and products and solutions, like Nipsey’s outfits shop.

Information of the lawsuit comes extra than a calendar year immediately after Nipsey’s spouse and children expressed annoyance over the Crips’ trademark programs. The gang to begin with apologized to the family and advised they would withdraw the filings.

“We respectively vow to assist the wishes of Lauren London (Nipsey’s longtime girlfriend) and the Asghedom spouse and children,” the Crips wrote.

Even so, the gang has since justified their “Marathon” trademark applications, stating: “The Crips business has prolonged utilised the phrase ‘The Marathon Continues’ as our ideology slogan in the earlier. Ermias, became a very well-recognised Crip and the phrase became popularized.”

Nipsey’s estate is reportedly trying to get monetary damages as perfectly as an buy for the destruction of any Crips-created merch that employs the “Marathon” emblems.