Crime in the hip-hop segment of the industry? As compared to what other portion of US industry and commerce? The record business, all of it, has long been a home for unsavory characters and corporate criminals. Now, let's compare it to the web of private contractors running parts of the war in Iraq?
Anyway, this is a shitty story and a poorly reported one, relying almost entirely on hearsay, old news and sources unwilling to be identified. It's for Newsweek's idiot audience of white-bread middle class Americans easily given indigestion by anything that insinuates something vile is contaminating their daily pabulum, like gangster rap music.
Lil' Kim went on trial for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury
Wow! She lied, lied, I tell you to the court! No one gets away with that! It's obvious evidence of a criminal racket.
Federal investigators “are pissed off,” especially by the latest shooting outside the radio station,
They are pissed off, as told to an entertainment lawyer. Watch out! Hey, I was pissed off yesterday. And everyone I knew usually gets pissed off at least once a week.
“It’s a revolving grand jury that basically has been going on for a couple years now,” says the prominent entertainment attorney
Finding not much of anything but hearsay, tales of bad behavior and innuendo so people have to be released so they can stop having their time wasted on a federal hobby.
― George Smith, Saturday, 5 March 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)
As my next witness, I call MC Paul Barman.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 5 March 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)
Is this a taking sides? If so, I'm goin' with the Feds.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)