Deadman's Co-sign

**Deadman's Co-Sign**

_An artist in the music industry using the death of another artist to capitalize on their legacy for personal benefit._

**Common Motives:**

- Growing their brand
- Increasing streaming numbers and album sales
- Generating sympathy or good publicity

**Common Methods:**

- Releasing music featuring or remixing the deceased artist's work
- Purchasing or obtaining rights to incomplete projects of the late artist, then revising and distributing them as collaborations
- Publicly pretending to be deeply affected or grieving, resulting in sympathy streams or positive press

1. "I feel like it's mad disrespectful that XXXTENTACION didn't even know Lil Nas X before he passed, and yet Lil Nas X still used him for the Deadman's Co-Sign."

2. "It's pathetic that Drake really thought he'd get the Deadman's Co-Sign off 2Pac by using his AI voice model in the diss track on Kendrick."