(AllHipHop News) The award-winning Netflix series When They See Us told the story of The Exonerated Five (formerly known as The Central Park Five). Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape of Trisha Meili.
In When They See Us, director Ava DuVernay depicted police officers and prosecutors involved in the case as manipulative and callous. Linda Fairstein, the former head of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office’s sex crimes unit, is now suing DuVernay, Netflix, and co-writer Attica Locke.
“In the film series, which Defendants have marketed and promoted as a true story, Defendants depict Ms. Fairstein — using her true name — as a racist, unethical villain who is determined to jail innocent children of color at any cost,” Fairstein alleges in her lawsuit.
After the release of When They See Us in 2019, book publishing company E.P. Dutton dropped Fairstein as a client. She was also forced to resign from the Board of Trustees of Vassar College and other organizations following significant public condemnation. #CancelFairstein trended on Twitter.
“Linda Fairstein’s frivolous lawsuit is without merit,” said Netflix in a statement. “We intend to vigorously defend When They See Us and Ava DuVernay and Attica Locke, the incredible team behind the series.”
Matias Reyes eventually confessed he actually raped Meili in Central Park. The convictions of Richardson, Santana, McCray, Salaam, and Wise were vacated in 2002. However, Fairstein continued to deny coercing the then-teenagers to confess to a crime they did not commit. The Exonerated Five were given a $41 million settlement from New York City.
(AllHipHop News) The number of coronavirus cases has topped 218,000 globally and 8,700 in the United States. The disease was first identified in Wuhan, China before spreading across the world.
While coronavirus apparently originated in the Asian nation, many people are asking that it not be referred to as “The Chinese Virus” or “Kung Flu.” There are concerns those phrases are leading to xenophobic attacks against people of Asian descent.
Donald Trump was recently asked why he keeps referring to COVID-19 as “The Chinese Virus” when some critics perceived that to be a racist dog-whistle. The president said, “It comes from China. It’s not racist at all, no, not at all. It comes from China, that’s why. I want to be accurate.”
Actress/model Karrueche Tran is using her Instagram platform to call out discrimination against Asians during the coronavirus pandemic. She wrote, “The coronavirus is not ‘The Chinese Virus’! Let’s stop instilling more fear and hate. The world is struggling enough as it is. Please stop this!!!”
The song has sold 13.2 million units (combined sales and track-equivalent streams), is the second best-selling song worldwide for 2014.
As of 2019, it is one of the best selling songs in digital history.
But in a reversal of fortune, an appeals court overturned the original verdict and tossed the entire copyright infringement lawsuit.
The Hollywood Reporter stated U.S. District Court Judge Christian Snyder threw out the copyright infringement case after reviewing more evidence.
The rapper failed to the “extrinsic test” which “required that a copyright plaintiff identify concrete elements based on objective criteria that works are similar.”
The prosecution brought in an expert that just could not find the link that Gray prayed for to link “Joyful Noise” to “Dark Horse.”
“Dark Horse” was the first single off her fourth album and was quite successful.
The song featured Juicy J. It combined several genres like pop, trap, Hip-Hop, and electropop, creating what is called a “Southern rap-techno mashup.”
Flame is surely on his knees tonight, asking God to be with him during an appeal. With money like that up for grabs, we are sure this is not going away.
The Canadian artist has isolated himself in his Toronto mansion. The rapper posted a video from his home basketball court with the caption, “My life for the next however long.”
Drake might be at home for a while now. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he is closing the border to foreigners apart from US citizens.
President Trump has said that he is working alongside Canada on an agreement to suspend non-essential travel between the two countries while sparing trade.
Bankroll Got It is the mysterious production group behind some of today’s hottest bangers.
Whether it’s Lil Gotit’s “Da Real HoodBabies” or Mulatto’s “b##ch From Da Souf,” they enter the rap game with unique, never-before-heard-of beats that artists can’t help but go off on.
Comprised of 3 blood brothers Joel Banks, Matthew Banks, and Taylor Banks, the trio are proud to leave their day jobs in order to pursue the music thing full-force.
While most people might think they’re from Atlanta (because of their heavy use of drums), they actually hail from the Bay Area.
In 2017, Bankroll Got It took home the trophy for 3rd Place at iStandard’s Beast of the Beats competition in Los Angeles. Since then, they’ve been growing their portfolio which includes working with artists Luh Kel, Stunna4Vegas, Queen Key, and many more.
Their strategy and work ethic is unmatched, doing whatever they need to do to get their fire beats in front of the right artists.
AllHipHop: How did you guys come together?
Joel Banks: We’ve always done music pretty much our whole lives. Me, I’ve had different situations in the past. They all didn’t work out as well. When our little brother started making beats and sent them to me just for feedback, I’m like “okay, maybe we’ll give it one more shot.” He got really good. Pretty soon, Taylor jumped on and we’d be flying to LA and New York. We hit it full-steam. It was the right combination with the family so it started working out. It’s a third time’s the charm kind of thing.
AllHipHop: What happened the first two times?
Joel Banks: Nothing, it wasn’t the right situation. It wasn’t the right time, I don’t think. It all connected together when the brothers came on board.
AllHipHop: Where were you guys working?
Taylor Banks: We basically had jobs to fund trips to LA. We’d book studio sessions Friday through Monday and try to get as many people as possible. We didn’t really know anyone in the industry so you can’t really get in without money. We had to make money to fund these trips. We’d go to Atlanta, New York, all these places to try and get in with these artists we’d be following.
Joel Banks: We’d start with conferences like A3C. Really our first established artist who helped us out was Asian Doll. We met her and Cuban way back at one of the conferences, walked up to them and tried to get their email. We started to work with Asian in Atlanta. When she got signed to Alamo, she helped us get in with Lil Gotit who we did the “HoodBabies” record with. Mulatto’s out of Atlanta, so we started working with her. Those 2 songs really built our sound that what we’re known for now.
AllHipHop: How’d you find out your sound?
Joel Banks: We were watching who either Asian was working with, or started taking notice of a lot of the young rappers and their other artists.
Taylor Banks: Watching Triller videos, like the “Woah.”
Joel Banks: Notice the sound. Artists like 10k.Caash, Tay Money, S3nsi Molly, a lot of Dallas artists we thought had an interesting sound. We created something that took a little bit of that, but really created our own more nightclub/stripclub music. That’s what worked for us.
Taylor Banks: We’ve always been a drum heavy producer, so those beats with barely any music were perfect for us. We’d come with the hardest drums we could think of, we’d put no music on it and it was a vibe that people liked.
Joel Banks: Which is why people think we’re from Atlanta because a lot of our artists come out of that area.
AllHipHop: Talk about being from the Bay, how does that play into your life/career?
Joel Banks: We’ve always been influenced by the Bay sound.
Taylor Banks: Just West Coast sound in general.
Joel Banks: Mainly because the drums are always so heavy. People ask us now why we don’t make Bay music… since we started working with Asian Doll, that’s why we do that sound. We still love West Coast music, but we haven’t done as much. Although now we’re working with a lot of West Coast artists, we’re trying to adapt our own way of doing some new West Coast sound.
AllHipHop: Where you guys were working?
Taylor Banks: We basically had full time career type jobs.
Joel Banks: Pretty much did a complete 180. I was in sales for an engineering company, but it taught me to realize you have to get in front of people. You have to be face-to-face. You can’t be sending emails because nobody opens them if they don’t know you. Learning sales and how to do that, we realize we have to fly to LA. The people we want to get to, we have to find a way to get in front of them. We’d fly to shows or if we knew they’re going to be at a certain event, we’d pull up just to meet them. We’d wait an hour to meet them.
Taylor Banks: We were pulling up on everyone.
Joel Banks: We’d check out the list of who’s performing on what night, we’d try to catch them after they perform. Usually start at up and coming artists because you could approach them. Trap Beckham, Pell, Jack Harlow, really anybody we’d notice.
AllHipHop: “b##ch From Da Souf” is a banger! How’d that come about?
Joel Banks: That’s a funny story. It’s so crazy that’s probably our biggest, well-known record. When it dropped, we didn’t even know. They didn’t even contact us.
Taylor Banks: We weren’t in the room when they recorded it.
Joel Banks: We previously did one song with Mulatto over email, so she didn’t know us. One day, our friend Chelsea (A&R at Columbia) hit us up “oh s##t, you guys did Mulatto’s new single.” We’re like “what?” We saw it, they never hit us up. At that time, our sound was developing. That was a popular beat that we’re shopping around. We’re like “crap, we have to hit them up.”
People were telling us to tell them to take it down. That’s never been our approach, we’ll figure it out. She was then signed to StreamCut, a really good company out of Atlanta. We call, they worked it out. We got payment for it. Ended up being our biggest record. A lot of producers would overreact and yell at them, tell them to take it down. We always try to approach it in a way where we’ll figure something out first. It ended up working out really well for us.
AllHipHop: What about Lil Gotit “DaReal HoodBabies,” was that in the studio?
Joel Banks: No, those first two were not. [chuckles] It was through our manager, Sean. At the time when Asian Doll’s album came out, we flew to New York. Release party was that night and we had to be there, so we flew a redeye. The next day, we pulled up and met the Alamo team. Sean was based in New York, so he kept in touch with them. He’d feed them beats.
Since we met them, they were interested in us. One night, Lil Gotit didn’t even want to do the beat because it was so different. His manager forced him to do it, that’s how they described it in the Genius video. It ended up being the one because it’s so different. I don’t think anybody would’ve killed it better than he did.
AllHipHop: Why don’t you like to show your identity/remaining anonymous?
Joel Banks: It started out as a branding thing. We want our name bigger than what we look like as producers. Now it’s turned into a funny situation where it’s almost exciting to the artists to figure out what we look like. It’s not that we’re ashamed, it’s just a good way to market ourselves. It’s really working out.
When people come to the session, they don’t know what we look like. It’s always a funny icebreaker, they’re like “who’s Bankroll Got It? Where they at?” I was in Atlanta, at a Rae Sremmurd event. We’re trying to get connected with Slim Jxmmi. I meet him and he’s actually more excited to see what we looked like, than for us to meet him. He’s super pumped about meeting us: “now I know what you look like!” So we’re keeping that going for a while.
AllHipHop: What do you each bring to the table?
Joel Banks: It’s a tag team effort. Taylor’s a little more musical so he gravitates to the melodic stuff, where I gravitate more to the hard club stuff. What we really bring to the table is working together as a team. Since we’re brothers, we work together so much better than somebody else because we understand each other. We can get into arguments and not take it personal because we know at the end of the day, we’re trying to do what’s best for business.
The biggest thing is both of us understanding what it took to actually make it in this industry. It’s not just sending emails and being really good at music, it’s more about relationships and being in front of people. Showing them a good time in the studio, doing good business, being polite. Letting something slide that most people wouldn’t. Taking small L’s for big wins.
Taylor Banks: We approach this whole thing like a business. We track every song that we make, that we cut. We track if a song’s probably going to make someone’s album, when it makes the album, if we’ve been paid. We’re really diligent on how we approach this thing as a business. Make sure we have cash flow all the time, make sure we can fund the whole operation. The amount of networking and parties we’re doing all the time, it’s better to have 2 people.
AllHipHop: Wait, so is it 2 or 3 people?
Joel Banks: It’s 3, our little brother still lives in the Bay. He still definitely sends us beats. He’s more of a behind-the-scenes guy, he doesn’t enjoy the studio life like we do. It works out we can handle it down here in LA while he shoots music to us from the Bay.
Taylor Banks: At the end of the day, we have 2 people coming up with ideas versus one. You’re always going to win more if you have more ideas to the table, more beats all the time. You never really know what’s going to take off or what people really want, what different weird sound people are going to like. The more ideas the better.
AllHipHop: Talk about your lit vending machine with the Hennessy and Backwoods.
Joel Banks: A lot of the music we make is more nightclub/stripclub music. We wanted our studio to be a fun environment that reflects the music we like, also what we like to do. We tried to make it look like a Miami nightclub, bottle service. We buy the artists whatever liquor they like, if they’re over 21 of course. They can smoke in the room. Our vending machine almost started as a joke, but we drink Hennessy every night. [chuckles] Artists love Backwoods. For the entourage and people down the hall, they’ll buy it.
Taylor Banks: We got this studio as an empty room, so we really built this whole thing out. We built the booth, we had to come up with the vision of what environment artists would want to be in. The Hennessy vending machine, the selfie mirror, lights synced with the music, it feels like a club. We bring in new artists we’ve never met, they hit us up the next day. They want to come back because they’re so comfortable here. We want them to want to come here.
Joel Banks: The vending machine is also a marketing thing. People tag us when they see it, it’s funny. People wonder if the Hennessy’s going to break from the top row.
Taylor Banks: People tell us all the time, “yo I saw the Hennessy vending machine on IG, this is it right here?” It helps spread news about our studio.
AllHipHop: What are your goals as artists from this point?
Joel Banks: We really want to have our sound grow. We want to be the biggest in 2020. We want people to come to us for the music we make, for our sound to take off. In the future, we’d love to develop artists and sign producers. Get our brand to be really big. Do things outside of music, maybe in technology. Our #1 goal is to get us to be at the top. Have our sound take over.
Taylor Banks: We’re always thinking about our 2021 sound, trying to be ahead of the curve. Whenever we have artists in the studio, when we push play, we want to surprise them with something they’ve never heard before. Something crazy. The type of beats we make, we try to get singles. Not album cuts. Try to be the song that when people hear it, they’re like “what the f##k is that?” They have to search who produced that every single time.
AllHipHop: How’d you guys get your producer tag?
Joel Banks: We paid some dude on the internet to say the name. The option was of a radio voice, his voice, or a female. He did it once, it was $20. I said, “nah this sounds like s##t. Do it again.” I gave him another $20, he did it some more. I ended up having to chop 3 different parts of different takes to combine it. It worked out, it sounded good.
AllHipHop: Anything else you want to let us know?
Taylor Banks: For producers out there, you know your tag works if people see you and they say your tag first thing. If people aren’t saying your tag, you probably need a better tag. Our tag’s right in beat, it’s fire. You know the drums are going to drop right after you say it, it’s a whole thing.
Joel Banks: Some artists we’re working with now are Calboy, YK Orsiris, Lil Pump, Smokepurpp, Dreezy, Mulatto, Rico Nasty.
Taylor Banks: Queen Key, Tay Money, Chinese Kitty, Hoodrich, a lot of people.
Bun Bydaway hails from Wilmington, Delaware, an underserved and underestimated community, once dubbed “Murdertown.”
Like other black men all over the country, Bun found himself at the mercy of our criminal justice system early on in life. A system that was created to recycle criminals for oppression and profit, versus rehabilitating them and assisting them in finding opportunities for reformation.
Bun served his time and paid his dues for his misguided decisions as an adolescent.
However, after his release, he was on probation for a total of 11 years with the system waiting for him to trip up and violate.
Probation has recently come under fire as many feel the system will keep someone from traveling, obtaining jobs, and opportunity, almost forcing the individual back into a life of crime.
Rappers and celebrities like Meek Mill and Kim Kardashian have championed the call for prison reformation in this country, and Bun has accepted the same call to make this problem more visible and raise awareness.
He started his journey by highlighting his reformation in hopes to motivate and uplift other incarcerated black men. In July 2019, after 11 years, Bun was finally released from his probation sentence and took a trip to Dubai.
Mr. Bun Bydaway is now a serial entrepreneur, with multiple successful businesses and is also a career in source of motivation within his community.
He has created opportunities by employing felons amongst other men in need of mentorship and opportunity. You can see more of his progress and revolution in his upcoming untitled documentary, set to release Spring 2020.
AllHipHop: What was growing up like in Wilmington Delaware aka Murdertown.
Bun Bydaway: From the outside looking in, it may seem treacherous or unreal even like a battlefield but for me it was regular, growing up it was my norm. It wasn’t until I got older and got the opportunity to see the world outside of my world that I realized there was nothing normal about how I grew up and what I was exposed to. Growing up, making it back home was a maybe.
AllHipHop: What challenges did you face daily growing up in the hood.
Bun Bydaway: The challenges that I faced growing up in the hood, stem from a lot of things, survival, freedom, jealousy, envy. Surviving, every day there was someone getting shot, you just never knew would it be you. You could be a target for being an enemy, or you could become a target for being envied. Freedom, the route that I chose wasn’t legal, I knew my freedom could be snatched from me at any second.
AllHipHop: What are the main factors that drew you to the streets as an adolescent?
Bun Bydaway: The main thing that drove me to the streets was independence, I wanted to get it on my own and I wanted to get it on my own terms. Getting a job was never an option, was never thought of. Since everything around me was flashy, glitter and gold, it made it easy to choose hustling.
AllHipHop: If you could give the young version of yourself wisdom that you know now, what would it be?
Bun Bydaway: Watch who you call your friends, and how to invest my money more.
AllHipHop: How has doing time in prison positivity and negativity affected your life.
Bun Bydaway: Positive it really gave me time to think and get my head on straight it always slows me down in a good way .. Negative time I miss with my family that I can’t get back
AllHipHop: What are some of the traps the system sets for young black men while on probation.
Bun Bydaway: Sheesh, to be honest, the whole thing is a trap especially in Delaware its like land mines set everywhere for probationers, literally everywhere you step is a violation.
AllHipHop: How did you avoid these traps?
Bun Bydaway: After I failed about 6 times I realized I just couldn’t breathe wrong, but I got help from a new program called the Achievement Center they made for inner-city probationers to basically help them get past the Petty violations and the small stuff regular P.O’s violate you for. Without that program, I truly believe I’ll still be on probation.
AllHipHop: When did you decide to transform yourself into an entrepreneur and how did you get started.
Bun Bydaway: I been an entrepreneur if you ask me but in the right people’s eyes maybe ummm 2018. I Basically just took everything I knew and put it into what I enjoyed and believed would make money.
Bun Bydaway: BDW®️ Studios, CBDW INC. LIVE Events (1/2 Owner ), BDW®️ Road Run Trucking and BDW ®️ Vending.
AllHipHop: How do you plan to use entrepreneurship to affect social change
Bun Bydaway: I plan to continue shining a light on my entrepreneur ways, risks, and rewards to help inspire our society to want more for themselves, to take control over their current situations. Just because your stuck now, or feel like this is it doesn’t mean it has to be. People gotta understand there’s no perfect time to start, just start.
(AllHipHop News) Russell Simmons has weighed in on the worldwide pandemic caused by the spread of the deadly disease, Covid-19 aka the coronavirus.
Russell noted the spread of the coronavirus is directly connected to carnivorism.
Simmons who has been a devout vegan for over 20 years took to his social media platform of choice, Instagram, and talked about how the virus germinated from the savage slaughter of animals and how “it would not exist if the world was vegan.”
On Monday, he captioned along with a descriptive meme with a list of viruses and their connection to eating meat. He writes:
“I know people don’t want to read this And it’s tough to digest …….. But this statement is factual and necessary Eating animals is horrible unconscious behavior… Even as i catch up on the debate i see the talk of climate change with both candidates ignoring the elephant in the room How can they discuss climate change w/out discussing the emissions from the animals? FACT…The cause of this virus, the #1 cause of cancer, and CLIMATE change is the abuse and eating of animals PLEASE STOP EATING ANIMALS i am aware that There is a fine line between saying things that people hear and things that bounce off of them.. i hope this message is taken with the love that it is delivered with”
“There seems to be no proper or easy time to say what i said , the ongoing abuse of animals is hurtful on so many levels it’s hard to quantify them all .. “dominion over the animals” does not mean birth 100 billion animals into unbelievable suffering, so they could cause disease, destroy the planet, and create the worst karmic disaster in history …Which is repeated each year over and over… I’m convinced that one day this will all be illegal … i hope the overall affect of my words were, are helpful”
As the world prays its way out of this global plague that feels as punitive as the one that The Big Boss unleashed on Pharoah back in Moses’ times, the popular preacher and rapper convert will have to figure out another way to get the Holy inspired word to the masses.
The massive service has been postponed because of the coronavirus epidemic. This should not come as a surprise as Yankee Stadium has canceled all events for the next two months and New York has clamped all the way down on large gatherings.
In fact, no one can even try to link up with fifty people or more without getting fined.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residences of the Empire State on Wednesday that he has formed a coalition with the neighboring states New Jersey, Connecticut and most recently Pennsylvania.
The states have come together cooperatively with a common set of rules that will apply to all four states to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus.
It is for the safety of all people.
And above all else, Yeezy and Pastor Osteen want to accomplish one major goal: To heal the broken (not make them sicker).
The church service is postponed until a future date.
(AllHipHop News) It is almost sad to talk about it, but deceased rapper Juice WRLD who lost his life in a tragic overdose is worth a whole lot of money.
TMZ reports that the estate includes a condo in Miami worth $1.49 million and a few bank accounts, with one having a little over $1 million.
He also had half a million dollars worth of jewelry, which included nice chains and watches. His worth could jump up substantially since the rapper left fans with almost 2,00 unreleased songs.
His team has discussed releasing new music, but they have yet to decide because it has only been four months since his demise.
Rappers’ estates often release their posthumous music and their sales and profits go through the roof.
Examples are Biggie Smalls, Tupac, XXXtentacion, Mac Miller and now Pop Smoke.
The deceased rapper’s mom, Carmela Wallace, has filed to be named the representative for the estate. This is important WRLD did not have any kids and was not married.
Many did not know that she is still mourning: She lost her son in December and his father six months earlier.
It should come as no surprise that director Angel Manuel Soto’s Charm City Kings could have its own original soundtrack curated by a Hip Hop figure. Charm City Kings stars Robert “Meek Mill” Williams in a supporting role.
The Grammy-nominated emcee from Philadelphia might be involved in making a full-length album for the film as well. Veteran music producer Swizz Beatz is also attached to the potential project.
“Well, Swizz signed on to do it, but he can only do six records, and then Meek’s people also called me, and he wants to do it also. So I think those two are gonna try and figure it out. Hopefully, we’ll have one, but it’s still up in the air at the moment,” Charm City Kings producer Caleeb Pinkett told Variety when asked if there will be an official soundtrack.
Pinkett did confirm that music plays an important role in the drama about Baltimore dirt bikers. Meek Mill’s “Milladelphia” (featuring Swizz Beatz) and “Uptown Vibes” (featuring Fabolous & Anuel AA) are both used in the movie which reportedly took a big chunk of its $450,000 music licensing budget.
“I wanted the Meek records whether he was in the movie or not. Meek was in jail when the movie was starting to go. I had spoken to Meek a year or so before we started early on, and he was in. Then he goes to jail and I’m like ‘OK, tragic. Well….,'” said Pinkett.
He continued, “I was a month out from shooting and all of the sudden he was released. It was crazy, but we wanted Meek’s songs in the movie no matter what, because his sound, especially those two records in particular that we have in the film, are synonymous with that bike culture that our movie is about.”
Charm City Kings is being released via Will Smith and James Lassiter’sOverbrook Entertainment and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. It was co-writtenbyAcademy Award winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight).
Besides Meek Mill, the cast also includes Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Will Catlett, Teyonah Parris, Donielle Tremaine Hansley, Kezii Curtis, and Pacino “Chino” Braxton. Charm City Kings was scheduled to screen at the 2020 SXSW Festival before the event was canceled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
(AllHipHop News) A law firm is demanding to have their day in court with 50 Cent, global pandemic or not!
An attorney for law firm Reed Smith is asking a judge to allow 50 Cent’s deposition of Rick Ross, even though the United States has shut down over a global outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
50 is battling Reed Smith in a $32 million battle over a leaked sex tape featuring Rick Ross’ ex-girlfriend, Lastonia Leviston.
50 Cent was found liable for leaking the tape and had to shell out $7 million to Leviston, which forced him into bankruptcy in 2015.
“Current government projections reflect uncertainty regarding when the virus will be brought under control, but even the most optimistic estimates are currently offered in terms of months, not weeks,” said Reed Smith’s lawyer, Thomas G. Rohback.
“To continue with existing lawsuits during these trying times, courts have canceled live oral argument, and have allowed for telephonic hearings. So, too, courts have recognized that taking depositions remotely by video and/or telephonic means is preferable to continuing discovery for an uncertain duration in civil cases that are impacted by the coronavirus emergency.”
At first, lawyers for both sides thought conducting the deposition via video was a good idea, but they could not agree on what date and time to do it.
Reed Smith wants to keep the March 25th date, but 50 Cent’s legal team wants to delay the depostion until a later date.
“Counsel for Mr. Jackson has expressed a willingness to use video technology, but only after adjourning this date to some future date when he might be able to take the deposition in person. Counsel for Reed Smith opposes any such adjournment. Likewise, Counsel for Mr. Ross opposes that adjournment.”
Reed Smith is asking the Court to issue an order directing that the deposition of Mr. Ross be conducted remotely on March 25th, 2020.
(AllHipHop News) It’s been a rough few days for Christian “Hitmaka” Ward. The former rapper/current record producer, also known as Yung Berg, was accused of pistol-whipping a woman on Saturday.
Original reports suggested Talia Tilley was Berg’s girlfriend. However, the 34-year-old Atlantic Records executive denied ever being in a relationship with Tilley. He also claimed the entire ordeal was actually part of a robbery and assault scheme against him.
Hitmaka posted surveillance footage of the alleged home invasion to his Instagram page. He also uploaded a letter from his lawyer which went into detail about Tilley’s alleged plot to rob Berg.
Attorney Shepard S. Kopp also stated that his client turned over videos and phone records to the Los Angeles Police Department. Apparently, Tilley’s cellphone showed that she shared Ward’s address with an unknown person that was in contact with her throughout the attempted home invasion.
Hitmaka wrote on IG:
On Saturday 4:30am three gunmen made an attempt on my life & home invasion. I have all the surveillance footage which some I’m posting & also other evidence needed. I retained legal council & decided that with this matter which I’m totally traumatized about that I must let the truth out as media outlets without having proper info are attempting to stain my character and reputation that I have spent my entire life building. I could’ve been murdered inside my home on Saturday & I would like to take this time & thank all of my family, friends, & colleagues who have reached out regarding the matter sending love and positive energy. This footage is very alarming to all my fellow people in music & living in los angles area pls be safe and monitor who you allow in your home. I made a crucial mistake which could’ve costed my life THIS WOMAN WAS NOT MY GF EVER. I won’t dive further into this & will let my lawyers move forward accordingly. Pls stay safe amidst these tragic times not only for myself but the entire world. Swipe right for more & my lawyers statement Video #1 suspects passing firearms through my home gate Video #2 suspects retreating after my ADT alarm sounds & jumping gate on my property.
(AllHipHop News)Eternal Atake is currently the #1 album on the Billboard 200. Lil Uzi Vert’s sophomore studio LP premiered with 288,000 first-week units, and it is expected to remain at the top of the chart for another week.
Industry prognosticators expect Eternal Atake to pull inanother six figures in its second week. At the moment,Uzi is projectedto earn230,000 – 225,000 equivalent album units for the chart week ending March 19.
The Philadelphia native is getting a sales boost from Eternal Atake (Deluxe) – LUV Vs. The World 2which arrived one week after the standard edition. The deluxe presented 14 new tracks. Both versions will be combined for charting purposes.
Additionally, Don Toliver’s Heaven or Hell is projected to debut in the Top 10 next week with 55,000 – 60,000 equivalent album units. Jay Electronica’s The Written Testimony, which heavily features Jay-Z, is looking at a Top 20 opening with 25,000 – 28,000 units.
(AllHipHop News) Migos were among the many musical acts that were promoted as performers for the ill-fated Fyre Festival. The Atlanta trio was reportedly paid $100,000 upfront for the 2017 gig, but the event never took place because of the organizers’ fraud and mismanagement.
According to The Blast, Migos were involved in a legal battle as a result of the concert being canceled at the last minute. Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff apparently reached a deal in the Fyre Festival bankruptcy.
The “Give No Fxk” rappers reportedly agreed to pay the total sum of $30,000 in a settlement payment. A judge signed off on the agreement which means all claims against Migos have been dismissed.
In 2018, Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland pleaded guilty to wire fraud. He is currently serving a six-year sentence in federal prison. McFarland and fellow Fyre co-founder Ja Rule were named as defendants in numerous civil lawsuits.
(AllHipHop News) Oprah Winfrey has been heavily criticized lately. Specifically, the media mogul was slammed by people like Ari Lennox and Mo’Nique for her connection to documentaries about alleged sexual abusers Michael Jackson and Russell Simmons.
Winfrey probably did not expect she would actually be accused of being a sex trafficker. That’s exactly what happened as right-wing conspiracy theorists spread rumors that the 66-year-old actress/executive was named by convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein as a co-conspirator.
Just got a phone call that my name is trending. And being trolled for some awful FAKE thing. It’s NOT TRUE. Haven’t been raided, or arrested. Just sanitizing and self distancing with the rest of the world. Stay safe everybody.🙏🏾
“Just got a phone call that my name is trending. And being trolled for some awful FAKE thing. It’s NOT TRUE. Haven’t been raided, or arrested. Just sanitizing and self distancing with the rest of the world. Stay safe everybody,” tweeted Oprah.
Some social media users believed Winfrey’s Florida home was recently raided by law enforcement. The debunked conspiracy theory also asserted that Celine Dion, Madonna, Tom Hanks, Charles Barkley, Kevin Spacey, and other celebrities were involved in a sex trafficking ring.
TMZ reports that 6ix9ine (born Daniel Hernandez) is facing a lawsuit from Fashion Nova. The company is seeking $2.5 million from the Brooklyn-bred entertainer.
Fashion Nova claims Hernandez was paid a $225,000 advance in October 2018. The payment was for 6ix9ine to promote the brand on his social media and in his music.
Apparently, Tekashi got arrested two weeks after receiving the $255K and Fashion Nova never got the services promised. According to the lawsuit, 6ix9ine agreed to return the money but never did.
Hernandez pled guilty to nine felony counts for his involvement in a racketeering conspiracy with Nine Trey Blood gang. He was sentenced to 24 months which included 13 months of time served. The “Gummo” rapper is expected to get an early release for being a “model prisoner.”
(AllHipHop Rumors) Megan Thee Stallion and Kodak Black. Ya know, rappers are pretty much the kings and queens of petty BS and 2020 is no exception – even with a dude in jail! Kodak Black is a bad, bad man and Megan Thee Stallion is my crush! Seriously, tho…
Kodak Black has taken exception to the phrase “drive the boat” which has been adopted by Megan. Meg showed up on Strahan, Sara and KeKe, and KeKe Palmer asked where the phrase came from. They uniformly agreed that the Houston native did.
Moving on….Kodak Black, from the belly of the beast, caught wind of the whole situation. How this dude did that, I don’t know. He may have somebody updating his IG from outside those walls. Anyway, he says on the ‘Gram, “I Really Wanna Go Bad On Lil One but I’m Keepin This S### Pretty.” I didn’t know this mattered, but I guess it does.
“Driving the boat” is when Meg is pouring hard liquor directly in the mouth of her victim.
KB said “drive the boat” over a year ago in Feb of 2019 on an IG Live. And people loved it. People loved it and Megan trademarked it. Sucks to be Kodak Black.
