Baby Keem has some of the funniest bars in the game. However, they might need to be heard in their intended context in order to be properly appreciated. Fans tweeting out one particular line from Keem's biggest song, "Orange Soda" (off his debut album), is causing them to get suspended from the social media platform. 

People have reported that quoting "When you come see the crib, you better die, hoe" could result in an enforced time-out from Twitter. While this bar could be confusing to decipher on its own, you could make more sense of it after learning of the one that precedes it. The Nevada rapper first asserts, "I hate a bitch that I can't impress." For this reason, when a woman is welcomed into his immaculate abode, Keem expects a stunned reaction. 

It's a pretty hilarious lyric, but Twitter is overlooking the hyperbolic humor in it and interpreting it as a threat. This may be because it's an algorithm detecting an issue in the phrase "you better die, hoe." One suspended fan, named Colin, lamented to Complex that this algorithm “doesn’t use any type of context or any sort of ‘plagiarism check’ to see if they’re lyrics, quotes, etc.” 

Miley Cyrus was accused of appropriating many things during her Bangerz era, but Jamaican songwriter Flourgon wanted to hold her accountable over one appropriation in particular. Flourgon – real name Michael May – claimed that Cyrus’ 2013 hit, “We Can’t Stop”, copied a lyric from his own 1988 song, “We Run Things”. 

In March 2018, May filed a $300 million copyright lawsuit against Cyrus and her label, RCA, for this alleged theft. It argued that the “We Can’t Stop” lyric, “We run things, things don’t run we,” too closely resembled his own, “We run things, things no run we.” Cyrus’ lawyers responded that the lyrics weren’t copyrightable due to their own origins in a pre-existing Jamaican Patois phrase: “wi run tings, tings nuh run wi.”

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May, Cyrus and Sony ended the lawsuit with prejudice on Friday, meaning it cannot be filed again. The details of the signed settlement agreement were not revealed to the public. 

It’s quite ironic that “We Can’t Stop” was targeted for copyright infringement because in 2013, it sat right below Robin Thicke‘s “Blurred Lines” on the Hot 100 – a song which suffered one of the most notable copyright cases of the century. HNHH recently spoke to two industry professionals to explain how copyright infringement works, diving into the lawsuits against “Blurred Lines” and Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams”.