Patti Labelle is getting hammered on social media for trying to take full credit for the sales explosion of her pies — so that she doesn’t have to give credit, pay homage, or pay any fees to the man, YouTube star James Wright, who put her pies on a video and made the product go viral.
Social media considers this a cultural sin. They realize that Wright’s video helped catapult her pies to record-breaking levels, and that she refuses to acknowledge his contribution, so they pummeled the R&B legend without mercy.