{"id":475769,"date":"2026-09-25T22:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475769\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T22:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:12:13","slug":"oakland-rapper-ovrkast-on-legal-battle-with-outkast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475769\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Rapper Ovrkast. On Legal Battle With OutKast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/17903641215747.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrities Visit SiriusXM - August 13, 2025\" class=\"wp-image-3066458\"  \/>Source: Gary Gershoff \/ Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland Rapper <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/ovrkast-denies-outkast-name-change\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ovrkast.<\/a> has opened up about his ongoing legal battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopwired.com\/3048006\/ceelo-green-outkast\/\" id=\"3048006\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OutKast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legendary Atlanta duo reportedly filed a lawsuit against Ovrkast. over his stage name, claiming it is too similar to the group\u2019s name. The legal battle came as a shock to the Oakland MC, who expressed his disappointment over the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a series of posts, Ovrkast. explained that the situation has been an ongoing battle behind the scenes for some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot that I\u2019ve been dealing with emotionally\/mentally this past year behind closed doors regarding this whole situation. So before you criticize please remember that I am the newer and younger artist trying to figure my way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ovrkast. also clarified that he never signed an agreement with OutKast and said he tried to cooperate throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor the record, I NEVER signed any agreement. I tried my hardest to cooperate with different options every step of the way. This narrative that I\u2019ve done wrong is also wrong. (had to clarify) peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the lawsuit, Ovrkast. allegedly agreed to change his name to OVERKXST. After he reportedly failed to make the change by the agreed-upon deadline, OutKast took further legal action<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More news to come as the story develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Gary Gershoff \/ Getty Oakland Rapper Ovrkast. has opened up about his ongoing legal battle with OutKast.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1846,143,145,144,29722],"class_list":["post-475769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-lawsuit","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-outkast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}