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Apparently, Nintendo is trying to get a legal trademark on the outdated phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong".

Yeah, no, that's stupid. There's no justifiable reason to get that trademarked. Nintendo does not deserve money when people use that phrase in movies. They just don't.

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2...-kong.aspx

Most likely they want to use that phrase in a commercial and feel that it would be ironic if Ice Cube tried to sue them over it. It's an interesting situation, since Donkey Kong is a copyrighted term and one that they've successfully defend before and Ice Cube decided to use that as part of a lyric in one of his songs since it sounded cool.

It brings up some interesting questions, if nothing else.

Questions that have already been answered. It's called "fair use" and it's perfectly acceptable in song lyrics.

The question is: would Ice Cube be able to sue Nintendo because they used the phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong" in a commercial?

Considering that Nintendo has Donkey Kong trademarked, I'd think that he would have a tough case...

Ice Cube probably doesn't need the money. When does his next dysfunctional-but-nontheatening family friendly movie debacle come out?

Dude's one more nut-shot away from hopefully being able to fade into obscurity before he embarasses himself again.

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Not wanting to be a gangsta rapper anymore somehow is a bad thing? I would not agree...

It's not the fishing, it's not the smile, it's the life jacket that gets me.

IC: Well, I wouldn't want to do anything reckless.

A Black Falcon Wrote:Not wanting to be a gangsta rapper anymore somehow is a bad thing? I would not agree...

Didn't say that it was, but you have to admit that we're looking at a total image change here.

True, no question. I just don't think it's for the worse.