The unnamed security guard is suing Universal Music Group-owned Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), Universal Protection Services and a variety of other parties for "alleged labor violations,...



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Rapper A$AP Rocky is being sued over a fight that took place in New York clothing store, this past July.

According to reports, A$AP Rocky was doing illegal drugs just before he attacked a man in a New York clothing store.

According to the lawsuit, Shenick Alcine witnessed A$AP Rocky doing illegal drugs inside the clothing store, sparking the assault.

The mayhem continued outside, when A$AP Rocky attacked two amateur photographers who were filming the incident.

A$AP Rocky was eventually charged with assault and robbery for striking photographers and attempting to take their cameras.

A$AP Rocky has already pleaded guilty to grand larceny and the assault and robbery charges were dropped.

Shenick Alcine is seeking unspecified damages.

via: http://allhiphop.com/2012/12/31/aap-rocky-sued-for-assaulting-man-while-high-on-drugs

Have you ever wanted to sue an artist over a bad concert? Well, the people who went to see Katt Williams perform in Oakland recently are doing just that ... TMZ has learned.

Williams and promoter Live Nation are on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit filed by Brian Herline on behalf of everyone who went to see the comedian "perform" on November 16.

According to the lawsuit -- filed on the day before Thanksgiving in Alameda County, CA -- Katt's show ended after just 10 minutes ... but not before he "confronted a heckler, took his clothes off, and attempted to fight at least three audience members."

The suit is seeking unspecified damages for "Katt Williams' non-performance."

Williams has been stringing together one bizarre appearance after another as of late and was actually arrested in Oakland just two days before the show in question.

We reached out to reps for Katt and Live Nation ... no word back.

SOURCE: http://www.tmz.com/2012/11/25/katt-williams-lawsuit/#ixzz2DHFQnHy

"80 Blocks from Tiffany's" is a project named after a popular documentary directed by Gary Weis in 1979 that reflected the days of early Bronx gang life. The project is solely produced by legendary producer Pete Rock and lyrically mastered by the Bronx Dynamite Duo Camp Lo…. they are the group "80 Blocks from Tiffany's".

The venture started in 2008 after working on the hit "On Smash" which included Camp Lo, Pete Rock, & Styles P. This is when the trio decided to revive the Hip Hop heartbeat and pay tribute to the birthplace of Hip Hop. 80 Blocks will provide a more detailed understanding of the entities that are the foundation of the art. It will include a mix tape entitled "80 Blocks from Tiffany's" to be, and a fourteen track album to follow.

"Mic Check" the second single from the "80 Blocks from Tiffany's" mix tape encompasses the essence of the four elements of Hip Hop: MC's, DJ's, Breakers, and Taggers. The "Mic Check" video was directed by the talented Court Dunn.

The mix tape includes songs like "Jimmy Page" and the 1st single "Mic Check" which paint the canvas of the gritty side of 80 blocks. It also includes jewels like "On Ice" and "High Life" that display glitzy side of Tiffany's.

For the album "80 Blocks from Tiffany's" Producer Pete Rock set the tone for Camp Lo on all of the tracks by providing authentic beats but yet with a distinctive style than what he is known for. The versatile layers created new flows, patterns, and subject matter making this collaborative effort an unexpected, unpredictable, unique, lyrical journey through Hip Hop culture. Towards the end of the excursion not only will you have witnessed an "Instant Classic", but also you'll feel like you just experienced a fantastic voyage to "80 Blocks from Tiffany's".

The official mixtape is available for download now on http://camplo.ne

"Mic Check" by 80 Blocks from Tiffany's (Pete Rock & Camp Lo) is the 1st leak from the 80 Blocks from Tiffany's warm up mixtape to be released in 2011.

NEW YORK – Two Texas women say they turned up topless in a Jim Jones video without their permission, and they're suing the New York-based rapper over the "Summer Time" shots.

Sharie Johnson and Samantha Stotts filed a lawsuit against the rapper Wednesday in New York, saying their privacy was violated by the shots in his "Summer Time" video, in which Jones and various others cavort on a tropical beach while he proclaims that he "can't wait for the summer time."

Lawyers for Jones didn't immediately return telephone messages Thursday.

Johnson and Stotts, two Houston-area friends in their 20s, were on a hotel's private beach last May in Miami Beach, Fla., when they noticed the "We Fly High" rapper's film crew and an entourage, their lawyer, Taso Pardalis, said Thursday.

"They weren't too impressed" and didn't know who Jones was, Pardalis said.

The women initially didn't realize they were being recorded and covered up or darted away when they did, Pardalis said. While one shot appeared to be a close-up, it was made from farther away, he said. They were aghast when a friend spotted the video online and alerted them this winter, the attorney said.

Johnson, a college student who works at a doctor's office, and Stotts, who has worked in real estate, want unspecified damages and want to stop the videos from being disseminated. Both Johnson and Stotts are now expectant mothers, he noted.

At least some copies were apparently removed from YouTube on Thursday after getting more than 30,000 views. Representatives for YouTube owner Google Inc. didn't immediately respond to an e-mail inquiry Thursday.

Jones, 34, is one of the Diplomats, a Harlem-based rap crew that also counts Cam'ron, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey among its members.

Jones had one of the top-selling rap songs of 2007 with "We Fly High"; his other hits include "Pop Champagne."

In 2009, he starred in "Hip-Hop Monologues: Inside the Life and Mind of Jim Jones," an off-Broadway play that chronicled his life on the road and on the streets.

He had a brush with the law in a swanky setting in December 2008, when he punched a friend of R&B crooner Ne-Yo's in the face in the Louis Vuitton store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Jones pleaded guilty the next year to a misdemeanor assault charge and was sentenced to time served — the few hours he was in custody after turning himself in to police.

Trey-Songz-Being Sued

Our homie Be Stylistik is reporting R&B heartthrob Trey Songz is being sued for copy right infringement. Its being alleged that Trey Songz is using the beat of plaintiff Derrick of Doc MOB records and iHip-Hop Music LLC illegally.

Read entire article and view court documents: RASHA ENTERTAINMENT

Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown's former manager and friend Bernadette Brennan is now suing the rapper for $100,000 in studio time and says that the fiesty rapper needs some help according to a new report in the NY Daily News.

"It's always sad when an artist has everything they need at their fingertips but still displays such self-destructive behavior," Bernadette Brennan told the Daily News.

"I hope she gets the help she needs," Brennan said of her ex-client. "I was one of the few people in her corner." Although Brown, 32, has released just one album since 2001, the platinum-selling performer still behaves like it's her '90s heyday, sources said. Sources told The News that Foxy - whose real name is Inga Marchand - is becoming an industry outcast over her unreliability.

Brown denounced Brennan as a fake manager, adding that only her family represented her. Brennan said she plans to sue Foxy for costing her more than $100,000 in studio fees, among other expenses.

The two were once close. Brennan bailed Foxy out of jail and took the rapper into her Manhattan home last summer after a bizarre mooning incident with a neighbor on Brown's Brooklyn block.

The manager even backed Brown after a July meltdown in the lobby of her posh midtown high-rise, where the hip-hop star reportedly tried to attack her

A concert promoter who planned to host a "Welcome Back Party" to celebrate the release of T.I. from jail is not accepting the rapper's excuse that he couldn't attend because he was under home confinement.

Carl Davis has filed a lawsuit in Alabama District Court claiming he lost his life savings when he agreed to put up money for a Birmingham comeback performance by T.I. (a.k.a. Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.), who was in prison on a weapons charge.

According to the complaint, Davis allegedly entered into an agreement for T.I.'s performance with Jervon Morgan, who represented himself as T.I.'s first cousin, liaison and agent.

Morgan is then said to have introduced Davis to Jason Geter, the CEO of Grand Hustle LLC, who presented a written agreement whereby the concert promoter would pay $50,000 to a bank account controlled by T.I.

Davis says he made the payments even though the defendants, including T.I., Morgan, and Geter, "concealed the fact from Davis that artist T.I. was on probation, on three years of supervised release and under home confinement as a condition of his plea agreement."

Davis also says that he didn't know that T.I .told a radio station that he wouldn't be performing at the Welcome Back Party that was to be held on May 28.

Up until the last second, Davis thought he had a concert, but he says that word of T.I.'s no-show, plus his financial investment, led him to experience heavy stress, suffer chest pains, nausea, emotional distress and hospitalization.

He's now suing on several counts including misrepresentation, promissory fraud, conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and breach of contract. He's demanding unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – A concert promoter who planned to host a "Welcome Back Party" to celebrate the release of T.I. from jail is not accepting the rapper's excuse that he couldn't attend because he was under home confinement.

Carl Davis has filed a lawsuit in Alabama District Court claiming he lost his life savings when he agreed to put up money for a Birmingham comeback performance by T.I. (a.k.a. Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.), who was in prison on a weapons charge.

According to the complaint, Davis allegedly entered into an agreement for T.I.'s performance with Jervon Morgan, who represented himself as T.I.'s first cousin, liaison and agent.

Morgan is then said to have introduced Davis to Jason Geter, the CEO of Grand Hustle LLC, who presented a written agreement whereby the concert promoter would pay $50,000 to a bank account controlled by T.I.

Davis says he made the payments even though the defendants, including T.I., Morgan, and Geter, "concealed the fact from Davis that artist T.I. was on probation, on three years of supervised release and under home confinement as a condition of his plea agreement."

Davis also says that he didn't know that T.I .told a radio station that he wouldn't be performing at the Welcome Back Party that was to be held on May 28.

Up until the last second, Davis thought he had a concert, but he says that word of T.I.'s no-show, plus his financial investment, led him to experience heavy stress, suffer chest pains, nausea, emotional distress and hospitalization.

He's now suing on several counts including misrepresentation, promissory fraud, conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and breach of contract. He's demanding unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

Mack 10 and his record label, Hoo Bangin' Entertainment, as being sued for over hundred thousand dollars by Producer Ervin "EP" Pope for unpaid royalties.

EP claims that he had an oral agreement with Mack 10 to be compensated $60,000 for producing two songs, "It's Your Life" and "Big Balla", on Mack 10's album Soft White.

He is seeking the payment for the production of those tracks along with the unpaid royalties from the sales of the album.

EP has produced tracks for several artists including Jay-Z, Twista, Kanye West, and Snoop Dogg

According to LA Fox News affiliate, Fox 11 News, the fake Rick Ross is ready to settle with the former crack dealer whose name and image he hijacked for his own financial gain.

"Freeway" Ricky Ross says the former corrections officer, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts, has made millions exploiting his name and image.

In an interview two years ago, after he finally came clean about his former life as a prison guard, Roberts denied ever knowing who Ricky Ross was when he assumed the name of the former crack dealer.
Now that the real Ross has filed a $10 million lawsuit against him, Roberts quickly changed his name to "Ricky Rozay" and he's anxious to ante up some cash to settle the suit.

But Ross wants the lawsuit to proceed through the courts. He told Fox 11 that the fake Ross has made millions using his name and it's "too late in the game" to settle now. He also wants 50% of Robert's royalties.

I Really Think Dude is taking this TO FAR WHAT DO YOU THINK

Jay-Z "aka Shawn Carter" is being sued by Air Platinum Holding, a private jet company which claims Jigga spent 55 hours on their planes back in 2009 ... but only paid for 37 hours of service.

The suit also claims Jay-Z flaked out on some other payments as well - here's how it all breaks down:

-- 18 hours of flight time at $4,500-per-hour (discounted from $6,000-per-hour) ... $81,000
-- Catering for 17 domestic flights ($500-per-flight) .... $8,500
-- Catering for 4 international flights ($750-per-flight) ... $3,000
-- International fees ... $8,500
-- Taxes ... $12,285
-- Luxury trip to England ... $24,200

It all adds up to $137,485.00 ... which is why most people just fly coach.

Calls to Jay-Z's reps have not been returned.

A man living across from a video shoot for Beyonce Knowles in the Hollywood Hills is suing the Beyonce for nuisance cand trespassing, claiming his privacy was invaded by unnecessary noise and crowds.

The court documents show Philip Markowitz filed the lawsuit seeking $25,000 on Friday in Los Angeles against Beyonce, a liability company and Dina Ciccotello, a production coordinator for the video shoot for her new song "Why Don't You Love Me," which was written by the The Bamaz.

Sidebar: That song is hot. Markowitz claims his expectations of privacy in his upscale neighborhood were "shattered" on March 26 when the crew came in the morning and didn't leave until 11 p.m., and that his driveway was repeatedly blocked. I think he just wanteed to have something to say. It isn't like they were outside drinking and smoking. If they had their permits, guess what buddy your case is dismisse

TMZ is being sued for broadcasting allegedly stolen and confidential footage of an interview with Debbie Rowe soon after her ex-husband, Michael Jackson, died last July.

The details of this lawsuit filed today in California District Court by F. Marc Schaffel Prods. raise interesting questions about TMZ's news operation, copyright issues, and the boundaries between an entertainment clip and a fair-use news product.

In the complaint, the plaintiff claims to be the owner of a 2003 filmed interview with Debbie Rowe. Some portions of the interview were aired in 2003, but others were held back as private and confidential, subject to a joint consent agreement between the interviewer and interviewee.

After Michael Jackson was indicted for child molestation in December 2003, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff obtained and executed a search warrant on Schaffel's home and seized the interview. Two years later, the County Sheriff represented that he returned the property and hadn't released the "confidential outtakes" to anyone.

But last July, TMZ broadcast those confidential outtakes that included a conversation where Rowe talks about needing sedatives. The plaintiff says that Rowe's comments were made in the context of a joke about stage fright (UPDATE: Rowe's stage fright during interviews, not Jackson's, if that's not clear), but taken by TMZ to tie past drug use to Jackson's 2009 death from a drug overdose.

After TMZ aired the interview, Schaffel and Rowe demanded that the confidential outtakes be removed. TMZ first claimed the source of the video as coming from a British TV station, then fessed up that it came from the Santa Barbara Sherriff's Department. The plaintiff says that when confronted, TMZ rescinded the story and claimed its source was confidential.

Schaffel is now seeking damages from TMZ over copyright infringement and conversion. Schaffel says the confidential outtakes have "an estimated value of potentially millions of dollars, the exact amount of which shall be proved at trial."

TMZ may try to claim that its use of the clip was "fair use" and the court may apply the "four factor" test and look into the purpose and character of the use. Does an allegedly stolen entertainment clip need to be cleared or does any broadcaster have the right to broadcast footage in the name of "news" without need to obtain consent? Will a judge apply the rare so-called "fifth" factor of fair use that takes a moral evaluation of the goodness or badness of TMZ into account? And does TMZ as a news outlet get statutory protection from revealing sources of news if they are trying to protect allegedly stolen media?

These will be questions posed in an interesting case that puts TMZ's news-gathering operation under the microscope.

Schaffel also sued Fox News last month for airing the interview. Details of a possible lawsuit against TMZ were first reported by Showbiz411 last August.

Here's the complaint filed by Howard King at King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner