

The results are often stomach-turning and difficult to listen to, but it’s nonetheless easy to see why this kind of music would resonate with a certain class of disenfranchised urban men where Talib Kweli or the Roots wouldn’t.

Jedi Mind Tricks have always taken an aggressive tact toward socio-political hip-hop, though it’s difficult to call their recent offerings “conscious” since they’re more concerned with grotesque expressions of anger. They are products of their times and these are bloodthirsty times.” That Jedi Mind Tricks choose to open their seventh studio album by quoting serial killer Richard Ramirez where they might previously have alluded to Gandhi or Malcolm X should tell rap fans nearly all they need to know about the 2011 incarnation of Philadelphia’s longest-running underground rap group. To demonstrate just how sincere the creator of the Star Wars universe is about protecting his creation, his characters, the movies, the settings, the concepts and the ancillary names, brands and logos – the following is a summary of the notable issues relating to Star Wars intellectual property.“Serial killers do on a small scale what governments do on a large one. (The Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm for $4,000,000,000 in October 2012 and immediately announced plans for a new set of Star Wars movies using the same characters and settings.) It is practically a running joke that any reference to Star Wars will expose you to a lawsuit from Lucasfilm or Disney. Since the original movie, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, George Lucas has not been shy about protecting his intellectual property rights.

No matter what revisionist history might try to argue. Though I recently re-watched the prequels and I would prefer to act as if they did not exist. It will be the seventh official full-length Star Wars movie to be released in theaters since 1977. It will also likely be the most infringed copyrighted work of the year (and 2016, too). It will be the biggest movie of the year. Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens on December 18, 2015.
