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Who favorited?Jay Z Named In $5 Billion Reparations Lawsuit
by on February 25th, 2008
Hip Hop mogul Jay Z may not be having as great a year as many would assume.
The Grammy winner, along with real estate developer Bruce Ratner and Barclays Bank, has just been slammed with a whopping $5 billion dollar lawsuit from one of Hip Hop's founding fathers, Clive Campbell, best known as DJ Kool Herc.
According to the New York Observer, Jay Z, Ratner, and Barclays Bank are all part of the $4 billion Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn, New York.
Bruce Ratner has his sights on building a basketball arena for Jay Z's Nets and more than 6,000 apartments in downtown Brooklyn.
Barclays Bank owns the naming rights to the arena, and has been accused of having links with the slave trade—an accusation the bank denies.
According to the suit, Campbell is seeking $5 billion for slavery reparations claiming Ratner and Jay-Z worked “in concert” with Barclays, and “profited from the African Slave Trade and continue to profit from these gains, through a conspiracy dating back hundreds of years and continue to date to oppress Black people, enslave them, unlawfully deport them to all corners of the Earth.”
No statement from Jay's camp has been released.
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How stupid that he should attempt to use the slave trade as a factor.
I cant front. If I was broke and had a snowballs chance in hell at getting any money by suing Jay-z Id do it too.
But the slavery thing is a little bit much. Its actually kinda funny.
ASSHOLES he is BLACK….
billion dollars?
Nigga just mad dat rappers wasnt makin multi millions when he
was popular
Jelousy is Muthafucka!!!!
CAN YALL SAY: CRABS IN A FUCKIN’ BARRELL!???!
A fuckin’ disgrace!
This muthafucka goes after Jay-Z…..
For $5,000,000,000!!!!!!!!
What the fuck is wrong with us black folk???
~Be Eazy!
DAMN!
Every african american in USA, every decendent of an african american would be a part of it!
Fuck makes Herc think HE of all people should be entitled to 5 billy?
The judge has to toss this shit out of court… it would literally start a “Reparations War” !
~Be Eazy!
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what the fuck does jay z have to do with the slave trade
its 2008 stop blaming everything on the color
of your skin
Simple niggas.
DIS NI66A IS SMOKING SOME SERIOUS C_R_A_C_K PEOPLE!!!!!
Who the fuck still gives a fuck bout Kool Herc??!!!
DIS NI66A GOTTA BE BROKER THAN HUMPTY DUMPTY- TRYIN TO PUT HIMSELF BACK TOGETHER LIKE THIS!!!!
Jay-Z: American Gangster to American Enslaver! lol
if you ever watch vh1 you would see that dude gives millions each year to africa with the water to life thing
also this shit sounds retarded are we suppose to belive this lol
Just another 1 hating doing his job! Shit it’s a publicity stunt, it has to be i can’t believe they even let that be publish…
Reperations should come in the form of free education for our time denied any at all and some tax breaks.
But see I am over it, and I DONT believe we should be asking for repaerations. Not because we dont deserve them cuz we def deserve them, but just cuz we aint getting them so fuck it.
Thats good for you and your family and I acknowledge that there are many black families whove succeded like yours (and mine), but I dont think theres any intelligent argument that there are not disproportionate numbers as far as the percentage of blacks vs whites who attend those type of schools and achieve success in that manner.
The majority of us are starting from a disatvantage when compared to most of our white counterpoints, its a fact, and the heart of it comes back to slavery, which was followed immediatly by black codes, segregation, and Jim Crow.
You dont know who or what I am. I dont blame my problems on shit but the way life goes, but I am smart enough to recognize why my surrounding are what they are and not be foolish about it.
I am a success story my nigga, Im good. I’ll let you hold something if you need it.
wtf, this guy is holding on to something (slavery) just because things didnt go his way. In no way do i feel slavery was right.
SO IF HERC GETS HIS MONEY WHICH I THINK HIS SURE HIS GONNA GET OTHERWISE HE WOULD NOT MAKE A CASE FOR IT, IS HE GONNA SHARE THIS MONEY WITH THE REST OF us THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND IS THAT GONNA INCLUDE JAY IN THAT HANDOUT TOO??
peace
peace
Why would u sue Jay Z (who is black) and try to make him pay reparations for slavery? ppl do the dumbest stuff!
No response from Jay-Z because it doesn’t warrant one. Kool is mental.