GloRilla is facing a copyright lawsuit from a social media personality who says the rapper stole her viral catchphrase — “all natural, no BBL” — and used it in her 2024 song “Never Find” without permission.
Natalie Henderson — aka @slimdabodylast on Instagram — says she went viral last year with the phrase, seemingly a reference to not needing a “Brazilian butt lift” cosmetic surgery. She says she then turned it into a song with lyrics including “All natural, no BBL/ Mad hoes go to hell.”
In a case filed Wednesday (June 20) in Louisiana federal court, Henderson claims that GloRilla (Gloria Woods) violated federal copyright law by copying those lyrics into her 2024 track “Never Find,” which features the line: “Natural, no BBL/ but I’m still gon’ give him hell.”
“There are unmistakable similarities between the two works,” Henderson’s attorney writes. “Based upon a side-by-side comparison of the two songs, a layperson could hear similarities in the lyrics, arrangement, melody, core expression, content, and other compositional elements in both songs and conclude that songs are essentially identical.”
“Never Find,” featuring K Carbon, was featured on GloRilla’s debut studio album Glorious, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and ended up as the top-selling female rap album last year. The song itself, a bonus track, did not chart.
It’s unclear whether the copying of such a small snippet of words amounts to infringement. Copyright law does not cover short phrases, including slogans and taglines, nor does it cover commonplace material that’s been widely used by others. Whether the allegations against GloRilla clear those thresholds will be decided by a federal judge.
A rep for GloRilla did not immediately return a request for comment.
This isn’t the star’s first tangle with copyright law. Back in 2023, GloRilla was hit with a lawsuit claiming she used unlicensed samples from a decades-old New Orleans hip-hop song in her hit songs “Tomorrow” and “Tomorrow 2.” The case was dismissed last year.
In November, the rapper Plies sued her, along with Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B and others, over claims that the 2024 song “Wanna Be” featured an uncleared sample from his 2008 track “Me & My Goons.” But the case was voluntarily dropped in March.