Kanye West Could Buy 'White Lives Matter' Rights For $1 Billion, Owners Say - TMZ

Kanye West 'White Lives Matter' Rights Price Tag ... Only $1 Billion, Owner Says

11/6/2022 1:00 AM PT

Kanye West is going to request to ammunition retired 10 figures if helium wants immoderate accidental astatine owning the rights to 'White Lives Matter' ... truthful says 1 of the owners of the phrase.

Ramses Ja, who got the rights to 'WLM' past period on with his vigor amusement co-host Quinton Ward, tells TMZ ... they're not looking to merchantability the trademark, but immoderate imaginable purchaser would person to travel up with a $1 cardinal connection to adjacent marque them see selling.

For Ramses, the astir important happening is helping organizations warring for Black people's rights ... truthful a $1 cardinal dollar connection would marque them reconsider their tendency not to sell, due to the fact that they could bash truthful overmuch bully with that benignant of money.

Kanye's been stirring the cookware with his 'White Lives Matter' shirts for a month, but helium hasn't been capable to merchantability them successful America due to the fact that helium doesn't ain the rights.

As we reported ... the trademark was acquired by an anonymous listener of Ramses and Quinton's radical justness vigor show, "Civic Cipher" ... filing it the aforesaid time Ye wore the arguable look astatine Paris Fashion Week.

The listener transferred ownership implicit to Ramses and Quinton a fewer weeks backmost ... and it covers the close to merchantability covering with those words displayed.

Ramses says their lawyer would instrumentality ineligible enactment against Kanye, oregon anyone other if the shirts are sold ... and the $1 cardinal terms tag would look to beryllium an adjacent bigger deterrent.

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Kanye's nary longer a billionaire aft losing tons of concern partners implicit his antisemitic rhetoric ... and Ramses says Ye has not reached retired to him astir the trademark rights.

And, get this ... successful bid for Ramses and Quinton to clasp their trademark, they request to usage it successful commerce, they can't conscionable beryllium connected it ... and based connected what Ramses is telling america here, it seems similar they're coming up with a unsocial mode to bent connected to the rights.