Posted on 04/09/2008 4:59:08 PM PDT by DGHoodini
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hip hop mogul 50 Cent, Universal Music Group and several of its record labels were sued on Wednesday for promoting a "gangsta lifestyle" by a 14-year-old boy who says friends of the rapper assaulted him.
The lawsuit filed by James Rosemond and his mother, Cynthia Reed, says Universal Music Group -- owned by Vivendi SA -- and its labels Interscope Records, G-Unit Records and Shady Records, bear responsibility for the assault because they encourage artists to pursue violent, criminal lifestyles.
The lawsuit also names 50 Cent -- whose real name is Curtis Jackson -- Violator Management, Violator CEO Chris Lighty, Tony Yayo, a rapper and a member of 50 Cent's G-Unit hip hop group, and Lowell Fletcher, an employee of Yayo.
All defendants declined to comment.
Oooops! Forgot to click the ‘This is an excetpt’ box.
There’s more at the Rueters link at the top of the thread.
Wow. This just seeing the light of day in a courtroom would be horrible. Any judge with half of a brain would laugh this off of the docket.
I don’t mind the idea, I just wish he had targeted Kayne West.
If I remember, 50 Cent is a conservative voice in that super liberal genre.
That is about a rough equivalent to being the sweetest girl in the whorehouse.
Why not. The KKK was sued out of existence.
Rappers might be the scourge of society but at least they are all pro 2nd Amendment and encourge their listeners to practice conceal carry. :)
I would love to see Fiddy beat the living sh!t out of Kayne, BTW. Maybe we could have a real-life Celebrity Death Match.
He’s backing Hillary.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that if I were you. >B-)
Didn’t he hust announce about a week or so ago, that he’d changed his mind, and was now backing Obama?
Beats me. It wouldn’t surprise me.
What? Are you one of those people who think it’s a Constitutionally protected right to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater?
You hope that people start being sued for espousing music, art, perceptions, etc. that you don’t approve of?
I certainly don’t like rap one bit. But I do realize that freedom of speech means that what I feel about rap doesn’t, and shouldn’t, matter at all and I’m ok with that. If this is a free country the judge will laugh this case out of court. If this case actually does go to court the Constitution is dead.
Are you one of those people who think that outlawing guns will mean an end to crime?
I do when such speech threatens the general good, and causes the breakdown of the cohesion of the societal and civilisational bonds that any and all nations need to survive, to protect and aid its peoples.
‘Counter Culture’ is not allways benign or beneficial.
‘Change” can also be for the veey worst, as well as possibly being for the better.
in rfact, most forms of counter culture throughout history, have destroyed the functioning sicieties they flourished in, than they benefitted.
Hippies and their countet culture,were a blight, a disease, a plague upon the United States, that we have yet to be cured from.
Counter culturalism is worse than full blown AIDS, and is every bit as infectious.
Well it’s a good thing then that this is a nation of laws and not of men. Frankly, what you think is good or bad for culture and society means absolutely nothing. Whether you like it or not, words, no matter how offensive they may be to you, are not illegal. Part of the reality of living in a free country. Besides, blaming rap for the breakdown of society is nothing more than treating the symptom rather than the cause.
Nope! The right to keep and bear arms is specifically *for* normal civilized people to be able to protect themselfves from rhose who choose to lve as beastial creatures of the moment, without mores,and without acting under the rukles that govern a society of *Mankind*.
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