One of raps biggest acts is suing major restaurant chain for using song in ad [Video]

NEW YORK — The national restaurant chain Chili’s used a Beastie Boys song in an advertisement and now the renowned rap group is making some noise about it.

Billboard reports the group is suing Chili’s parent company, Brinker International Inc., saying it used the group’s 1994 hit “Sabotage” in a social media ad without permission. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, Billboard reports.

The lawsuit claims the ads also used images similar to the video from the song, in which band members Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, Adam “MCA” Yauch and Michael “Mike D” Diamond imitate a 1970s-style TV police drama, Variety reports.

The lawsuit accuses Brinker, which reportedly owns 30 locations in New York, of creating a Chili’s social media ad in 2022 that used parts of the song alongside a video of three people wearing 1970′s-style disguises stealing ingredients from a Chili’s restaurant.

The case was filed by Horovitz and Diamond, the …