After a couple of months of airplay on MTV, Mister F.A.B.’s Ghost Ride It video (featuring a replica Ecto-1) has caught the attention of Columbia Pictures, who don’t want their IP associating with the West Coast fad of getting out and climbing around on a moving car. Columbia has threatened legal action if the video isn’t pulled from airplay and Internet video outlets. The video nearly found F.A.B. banned from MTV, and required 52 editting changes to make it on MTV Jams (possibly why the premiere was originally delayed by a week.)
BallerStatus.com: Your video is about ghost riding, it’s teaching people how to do it. Are you getting flack for that?
Mistah FAB: I’m getting flack for it. People are saying what they wanna say, but it is what it is. Like for my video, I had to edit hella stuff. I edited the video like crazy. People always gonna stop something. When you infiltrate pop culture and cross over to other areas and other demographics, they like, “Woah.” The reason why a lot of people are trying to stop it is because they kids is doing it now. It ain’t no longer the black kids in the community doing it, it’s the white kids, the Filipinos, the Chinese… everybody’s doing it.
It’s a cultural shock right now. If you not a part of it, you’re trying to stop it. That’s what you call a movement, and I’m just happy to be at the forefront of it. People just gotta be responsible for what they doing and how they do it. It’s not safe, so you gotta be responsible.
Still, F.A.B. is sticking to a “any publicity is good publicity” philosophy.
“Publicity in the music industry, good or bad, is great. My momma always say, ‘When they stop talking about you is when you get worried,’” FAB confessed.
More on the story at GB Props, Ballerstatus.com, and PCs previous article on Mister F.A.B. (plus the offending video, at least until it gets yanked from YouTube) can be found here.
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This Mr Fab is a complete idiot. If he has ever been effected the death of a loved due to a traffic accident and really knew what it was like he wouldn’t promote this insane “ghost riding” crap.
Ban the video and don’t buy his “music”! I don’t want him to make a penny from such irresponsibility.
I disagree. If anyone is stupid enough to ride on the hood of a moving car and gets injured, then I would say that Darwinism is doing it’s job.
I also see no reason that it should be banned from TV. If every dumb act was banned from television, there wouldn’t anything on.
I agree with Zoe. Banning anything because people old enough to have common sense don’t use it is just one more way society is trying to push off their own responsibility and place blame on others.
If you get on top of a moving car (which has been seen in plenty of TV and movies before this video), you’re a moron. I don’t care where you saw it. Someone seeing it on TV/Movie should understand that there’s obviously more going on (safety wise) than what one sees.
“there wouldn’t anything on”
*Sigh*
Irony.
To be fair, I was reading YouTube comments before I posted.
I don’t think that Sony has a case. They don’t own the car (the guy who modded it does) and they don’t own the car design (the car manufacturer does). In fact, that isn’t even the same model car used in the films, so at best it’s a “look-alike”. Since they replaced the No Ghost logo on the sides with Mistah F.A.B.’s logo, there’s no aspect of Sony’s intellectual property in the video.
The fact is that there are people who are stupid enough to ghostride. By glamourising it in a music video the makers are are effectively promoting it which is an extremely irresponsible thing to do.
Good ridance to bad rubbish, that’s what I say.