**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
_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."
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."
by Worgrimm January 22, 2025
Get the Deadman's Co-signmug. 
Get the co-grandpibling-in-lawmug. The grandchild-in-law of one's spouse's sibling.
My co-great-nibling-in-law is a good person.
by Elivaldeq November 24, 2019
Get the co-great-nibling-in-lawmug. media term for those current TV shows where wannabees or one-star celebs hoping to raise their public profile are encouraged to compete, be humiliated, bullied, or patronised on camera...
Great symbiotic relationship -- the media get hours of cheap or unpaid labour; everyone gets their fifteen minutes of facial recognition; one or two win through to big bucks...
Great symbiotic relationship -- the media get hours of cheap or unpaid labour; everyone gets their fifteen minutes of facial recognition; one or two win through to big bucks...
'Jeez ! Yet another co-promo on TV... this time it's the Whiplash School of Cookery comp...but dammit, I love them all...it's so addictive...'
by mikroth February 6, 2009
Get the co-promomug. by Cuck-maker-69 August 2, 2019
Get the co-ingmug.