Dr Seuss ghost gon come fuck u up

Doesn't look like the Dr Seuss copyright holders like sharing: https://www.library.upenn.edu/blogs/libraries-news/fair-use-and-dr-seuss

The Seuss estate is very protective of their copyright.

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You *can do a parody

It’s not parody and you will be open.to a copyright lawsuit. The distinction between satire and parody is subtle but simply rapping existing copyrighted words provides no social commentary on those words the streaming services will shut ur down.

I don’t think rapping out the entirety of the book verbatim is going to fly as a parody though.

Does wearing fright wig help?

It’s not parody if you use the whole thing as your lyrics. You are not poking fun at it, you are stealing the words. Now, if you wanted to use some creativity and write some similar sounding stuff, that might be ok. But 100% usage is stealing.

The Sneetches are/were a prominent college radio band in the 80's/90's. I don't recall them ever having any legal issues with their name.

What about the song on Spotify “Wocket in My Pocket,” that just raps the entirety of that Dr. Seuss book and has over 724,000 streams?

Someone on Spotify rapped all of “Wocket in My Pocket,” and it hasn’t been taken down after 724,000 streams