Dr Dre forces US politician Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove promo video - BBC

Rapper Dr Dre has sent a cease-and-desist missive to US person Marjorie Taylor Greene, aft she utilized 1 of his songs successful a promotional video.

Greene utilized his deed opus Still D.R.E. successful a Twitter video celebrating Kevin McCarthy's predetermination arsenic talker of the US House of Representatives.

"They can't halt what's coming," she captioned the video.

Dre said helium had not licensed the opus to Greene, who has a past of sharing far-right conspiracy theories.

Her societal media posts person supporting outlandish suggestions that a 2018 precocious schoolhouse shooting was staged, and that a wildfire successful California was ignited by a laser beam changeable from abstraction by a salient Jewish family, the Rothschilds, who are the taxable of galore anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Such tropes are communal amongst right-wing QAnon followers.

The Georgia Republican's latest video showed her walking the halls of Congress successful slow-motion, smiling and reflecting connected her relation successful helping McCarthy unafraid the House talker position.

The people was the iconic soft riff from Still D.R.E, a 1999 azygous by Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Dre, whose existent sanction is Andre Young, instantly expressed his displeasure.

"I don't licence my euphony to politicians, particularly idiosyncratic arsenic divisive and hateful arsenic this one," helium said successful a statement to TMZ and the LA Times.

Within hours, the video had been removed from Twitter and replaced with the message: "This media has been disabled successful effect to a study by the copyright owner".

Dre's lawyers past sent Greene a missive accusing Greene of "wrongfully exploiting" his euphony "to beforehand [a] divisive and hateful governmental agenda".

The missive said that Greene's usage of Still D.R.E. constituted copyright infringement and that the rapper "has not, and volition never, assistance [Greene] support to broadcast oregon disseminate immoderate of his music".

"One mightiness expect that, arsenic a subordinate of Congress, you would person a passing familiarity with the laws of our country. It's possible, though, that laws governing intelligence spot are a small excessively arcane and insufficiently populist for you to truly person spent overmuch clip on," the missive continued.

They demanded that Greene "cease and desist from immoderate further unauthorised use" of Dre's work, and to corroborate that she had complied with the petition by Wednesday evening.

The person fired back, attempting to undermine Dre's motivation authorization by referring to his inheritance successful gangsta rap, arsenic a subordinate of NWA and shaper for artists similar Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Eminem.

"While I admit the originative chord progression, I would ne'er play your words of unit against women and constabulary officers, and your glorification of the thug beingness and drugs," she told TMZ.