Mos Def Investigated For Larceny
Brooklyn bred MC, Mos Def is under investigation for larceny after a run-in with a fan outside the Las Vegas Hilton last week.
According to reports, Mos Def allegedly snatched the fan's camera after taking offense to the flash-happy picture taker.
The fan suffered a cut to his hand during the brief scuffle as Mos allegedly snatched and tossed the camera to his security guard who ran off with the equipment.
Witnesses claim Mos repeatedly yelled "Everybody knows I don't take pictures" during the ruckus.
Mos Def has been involved in numerous instances of what many may call "Male-Diva Syndrome." In 2004, Mos was written out of a co-hosting gig at VH1's Hip Hop Honors after skipping two rehearsals in the days before the taping and wanted to reshuffle the show's lineup to feature his own band.
In 2007, Mos Def was involved in scuffle with another photographer after the paparazzi attempted to take his shot outside a Hollywood nightspot. "I'm not trying to damage nuthin' ... I just want him to erase the photo. I'm not hurting him, I just want him to erase my photo and knock it off" Said Mos during that run in.
Dame Dash Dropped By Pro Keds
Hip Hop mogul Dame Dash has lost the licensing rights to Pro Keds as the company hopes to achieve a new image with its 60th anniversary.
Dash, who popularized the brand in 2004, was given the pink slip by the Stride Rite Corporation last week due to the company wanting to re-create the brands look and head in a new direction.
"We thank Damon for his partnership and efforts on the PRO-Keds brand over the past few years, and we look forward to re-launching the brand under the Stride Rite organization to maximize the brand’s full potential,” Stride CEO Greg Ribatt said in a statement. “We plan to tap our archives and re-issue the classic styles with fresh new design details, and to build on the brand’s vintage position with a new brand image.”
Dash is also rumored to be facing foreclosure after a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed by Eastern Savings Bank claims Dash has failed to make the $78,504 monthly payment on his two New York City apartments . Dash also faces over $10,000 in late fees on the $7.3 million mortgage.
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Damn mos def is fucking up the paps and dame is broke he should hook up with cam and reboot dipset back to glory try and sign an imprint deal with like alantic or some other major label.
"The fan suffered a cut to his hand during the brief scuffle as Mos allegedly snatched and tossed the camera to his security guard who ran off with the equipment."
WTF...Sounds Like Bully Shyt Wit His Homie Scence Str8 Outta Tha Movies Ha Ha..Who Does That LMAO???
On A Side Note Poor Dame...He Is Not Tha Ultimate Hustla..Wuteva Happened To Buddy Who Won That Anyway??? Scream At Me,1..
78k per MONTH!?!?!?!
WTF? People constantly live outside of their means...
CONSTANTLY!
Mos Def needs to cut that silly shit out. When no one wanted to take ya picture or knew who u were... u were breaking ya neck for the attention.
Now u have A LITTLE LITTLE BIT of it... you're going bananas!??? WTF?
Everyone's lost their damn minds now a days!
Just as easy as u make money...It can be taken away twice as fast!
Lil Wayne, Dame, Kanye, Baby, Young Berg (ha), Ed Mcmahon, Holyfield, etc etc.... Smarten up!
~Be Eazy
damn dame broke as hell, my daughter wear stride rite shoes
to tell u da truth its funni as hell how dame is broke afta calln himself da ultimate hustla...now hov is cakin it cuz he left dame in da dust by selln ROC and then gettn it back by takn presidency at defjam...and alot of ppl say hov did him grimey wen in fact dame was secretly startn his label behind da scenes...hov aint choose money ova friends cuz him and Biggs is still cool...he jus chose money ova dame
brooklyn stand up...bedsty, nostrand is da ave come holla
that nigga dame is going down, 2003 he was on top of the world now damn. he lost aaliyah, he lost rocafella, he lost rocawear, he lost his movie contract he lost homes and now he lost his only thing that bring him paper prokeds. keep yo head up.
i feel mos, if a man doesnt want his picture taken leave him alone. poor dame, should have been stackin instead of spendin or at least spend money to make money HUSTLA!!!!!
yea mos dont do photos like that. but our a fuckin celeb dog, wtf??? and dame is just loosin day after day after day after...he need 2 make up w/ hova again or see whats poppin wit cam lmao
thats what these dumb mother fuckers get... they think once they get rich that money gonna be there forever... but theys top puttin in and wonder why everything goes away.... i mean WTF someone gonna do wit 20 different houses?? Just to say you got em? I would buy ONE fresh ass pad not too big just real nice you know, of course get a nice whip but nothing too crazy, get soem fresh new gear and kicks, wouldnt buy a buncha gaudy ass chandelier lookin jewelry... rappers need to realize that shit is out and it makes them look fuckin materialistic and ridiculous.... they need to grow da fuck up, they could use that money to build up the hoods they came from and build a community center that hires mentors and gives kids father figures that dont got fathers in the hood that end up growing up to shoot someone cuz they wanted $20 dollars... shit makes me sick... ignorant ass bitches, its the parents fault... WOAH... im goin way off topic... anyways i would take rest of the money and start up a unique business that wont go obsolete so fast like clothes or shoes but somethin useful not materialistic, take some and play the stock market... take at least 50,000 in cash and put it in a safe and bury it somewhere no one would look just in case and just put the rest in savings and watch my money work for me.... i guess its easier said then done cuz who knows what i would do wit millions of dollars cuz i make good money now but its like im still ballin on a budget cuz i blow that shit so i dunno... lol props to you if u actually read this whole thing... my bad
nobody reads your long shit
i read it...
i read the whole thing and yes it was long but thats a dumn ass idea to bury money sumwere that shit aint gona work i dont care were you bury it and 50,000 aint enouph to live the rest of your life and why the fuck would sum1 take they hard earnd money to charity i mean i understand if you give a lil support were you came from but what the fuck you gona do when you broke if you give it all away and another thing people buy property so they dont have to put all there money in the bank "so if the bank crashes they get more than 100,000" cuz thats all the bank ensure's there was other things i wanted to touch on but i forgot so ill stop there and im not hating or dissing im just speaking my mind same as you.....
i feel what Big Chucker said about being a celeb..it comes with the job..i can see if they were coming on your property or hiding in your bathroom or some crazy shit!! As far as Dame goes...man when it rain it pours..i hope that you keep your head up and things turn out for the best!!
TOO RIGHT MOS DEF SHOULD FLIP OUT! I'VE SEEN SOME FILM CALLED THE "PAPARAZZI" SO THE PAPS BEST MIND OUT...SHIT!
DAME DASH LOSING SPONSOR DEALS AS WELL...THE SAGA CONTINUES!
lol Mos Def don't give a fuck...Dame! damn in the words of Jay "it was all good a week ago"..Wtf you doin?! What you spendin your money on homie!?
Dame(dummy)Dash is a fucking clown. Whenever I hear his name I remember that MTV cribs when he asked his servant at his house in london if the ice in the water he was drinking was dip or made from moet or some shit like that. Now look at your ass know fucking show off. You are up the fucking creek without a paddle. You should have bowed down to Jay Z he would have taken care of your Ass....
lol @ "Marquis Sade"....i just finished listening to that track off of "hardknock life vol.2" haha and dame dash put hisself in this position so i don't feel sorry for him....$78,000 for apartment payments...i don't wish a downfall on anyone but, if i had that type of bread, i would buy a big ass house and pay it off and invest but when you are working beside jay, money aint a thing and he thought he was invisible until jay took over the roc and it went downhill from there.........i hope dame and scott storch do a collab on a book called "On top of the world and now brought back to reality"
STOP BEING SO DRAMATIC...ITS PART OF THE BIZZ...so what if they take pics of you...you lucky they are, you shitstain...
ANYWAYS DAME DASH KEEP YOUR HEAD!!!
Nigga Donte Smith cna do whatever!!!
I undastand. I aint the least bit famous n I don't like havin my picture took either. it's all about privacy. sometimes a dude jus don't wanna be seen like that.
my man dame tho! you'd think a muhfucka's money would last twice as long if he jus kept his wants and needs SIMPLE! if I had dame's money (like 8 years ago!), I'da got me a decent apartment in manhattan, 4 figures a month or so; one decent whip, a souped up corvette or somethin n I'd have dough goin into my 50's at the rate he was goin!
keep shit simple n u might live longer!
Don't be afraid of the camera Mos!
Dame Dash lost that deal weeks ago
i hate to see posetive rappers lik Mos Def in negative news like this. what he really needs is a genuine push to put his music out by a real company. he hasn't had that since Rawkus, and that label was held together by bubblegum and paper clips despite what many believe. we need music, not petty tabloid headlines.
Who wrote the Dame article, cause i ain't never see pro-keds get popular (atleast not in Dame's demographic). When did this sudden surge of the hood rockin Pro-Keds happen????? was i in a coma????? was i dumb def and blind for a year straight or something. i remember when he made the deal, but i don't remember him doin much.... maybe i'm out of the loop, but what exactly did he do besides probably make some money from it and not pay his house note????? LOL
i cant even see mos def do any type crime except jay walkin lol he surprised me
and hydro the emcee niggas in my city wear pro keds all da time and i'm frum baltimore
damn dash...ca$h getting low. better call Jigga LOL
damn dame wish you were in jays spot dont you lol u goin broke nigga !!!
I Guess Dame Aint Shit Wit Out Jay.. He Better (Make Another Hov)....
hiphopsavedme i lived in MD for a minute (in PG), and i ain't sayin niggas don't wear em, but the article said Dame "popularized the brand". Not to knock B'more, or any surrounding areas, but Pro-Keds ain't popular anywhere else i been at, and i been a lot of places. I know some of my Westcoasts cats wear 'em, but the reality is Dame did just as much for Pro-Keds as Jay-Z did for Budweiser. People already drank Budweiser and Jay being associated didn't actually change anything in their numbers. Dame was with Pro-Keds and i will be damned if he "popularized" it. if anything its just the same popularity-wise as it was before him. and how popular is that in the big scheme of things???? A majority of people ain't ridin with no Pro-Keds like that son (i guess with the exception of B'More, some parts of Cali, and random white kids i see at the mall).
i dont know what hiphopsavedme is on about, im from baltimore too, and the only real popular shoes over the past few years been dopes(pennies), 992s(new balance) and probably nike boots. pro keds aint no big thing here, sure you got people wearin, but you right dame aint influence nobody down here to wear them, if anything all the rappers that push that skinny jean,tight shirt style did. pro keds are what like 40 dollars, thats why people got them. but they aint no staple shoe in baltimore.
i got some on right now and they fresh as hell too
THANKS BILLTIMORE!!!!! the first shoes i truly thought about when he said B'More (and Maryland in general) were the PENNY's. Last time i checked they were borderline mandatory. they a little dated, but everybody i knew from MD after i moved had them and a lot of them still do.
as for mos def i guess i understand and i dont. hes famous so its expected, i could see if the nigga had dentures, and they wasnt in his mouth or something, but hes a celebritry(sort of lol) shit he probably lost a fan right there, and if anybody knows about not havin the right amount of fans its mos and other rappers like kwelie or dead prez who people sleep on constantly.
i hate taking pics if i dont know the person snappin it, and if i dont know their agenda of what they will do with it. but the person snappin the pic,probably was just gon put it on myspace and be like yeah i got a pic of my favorite rapper.
not trying to diss, but its not like a pic of mos will go for like 20 thou. on the street if its sold lol. people aint makin money off his picture
They both losers!
i feel for da homie Dame, now he gotta try nd get in gud wit tha Jigga man. man i tell ya i hate to hear that word "broke" cuz that sum major shit man.....nd dat nigga mos def need to get his act 2gether
At least we know backpacvk rappers got a lil thug in em and they be on some stupid shit sometimes too probably more than we think but they not reall famous so who cares as far as dame goes sometimes u gotta fall off ya high horse to become a better man cause in my eyes the boy was a almighty prick.....overly cocky will always get ya a one way ticket to fuckedville in some form or another he just luck aint nobody shoot his silly ass
i kno for a fact mos def takes pictures. i have a pic wit him wen i saw him at LA airport...that paparazzi mustve been doin some other shit to piss him off
damn dame dash just keep gettin Gd but i believe in what goes up mjust come down and vice versa and dame is good example. he down right now bout to lose everything but hes rebounded before...he need to prepare for failure cause he the type of dude where he gotta learn by now he cant let failure happen but idk well see.
mos def....u famous u gonna get pics taken jus be thankful u aint a bitch cause paparazzi go nuts wit beach pics and upskirts
dat nigga dame broke ass fuck, he aint shit without Jay Z
ok if u remba correctly on the last news of Dame(when he was first rumored to be "cutting back" and "filing for bankruptcy") i introduced the term "billionaire broke" but now this nigga wont even have shoes on his feet?! he's just plain ass broke! damn George Bush nd his damned recession!