Posted on 12/28/2005 2:07:56 PM PST by DuckFan4ever
More troubles are emerging at The Source, the one-time bible of the hip-hop music industry.
Paychecks were bouncing two weeks ago, and the 50 or so staffers did not get the new paychecks that were slated to turn up before Christmas. The office was closed Dec. 23 through Dec. 26 — so staffers went without pay for the holidays.
Company president and sometime-rapper Ray "Benzino" Scott is still said to be in sunny Miami, where he has spent the past few weeks.
The firm's founder and chairman, David Mays, who recently returned to New York from Miami, hung up on Media Ink. Perhaps it was a cell-phone problem, we thought at first, so we called back.
"What are you doing calling me?" said Mays. "I just hung up on you. You're a real rude, miserable, motherf*****. I'm having a wonderful Christmas and all my staff is too. F*** you!" He then abruptly hung up the phone.
Meanwhile, Textron Financial Corp., The Source's onetime principal lender, is trying to force the company into receivership for defaulting on an $18 million loan.
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You just gots to love them classy rappers.
Cash flow, thats what it is. Cash
flow, de cash it don't flow.
No, mo, You ho!
I can't decide if a small lizard is crawling in his hair or if it's an alien landing strip.
So who was it who thought you could get rich targeting gangsta rap fans who like to read?
Ummm.. yes, that's what it is...
Yeah, I always talk to callers like that when I'm happy. Don't you?
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