Cee-Lo Green Sued Over Phantom Christmas Concerts

February 9, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

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The ‘Cee-Lo Swindle’? From TMZ:

Cierra Management Group claims in its lawsuit, Cee Lo’s people approached them in November, 2011 with a proposition — doing a tour called “12 Days of Christmas.” Cierra would have had to front $100k per concert and it was too much money.

So Cee Lo’s peeps went back and proposed to slash XMAS in half and do 6 days at $100k each, but it was still too rich for Cierra’s blood.

So, according to the lawsuit, Cierra was offered a bargain basement Yuletide proposition — 2 concerts for a total of $243,000 including expenses. It was too tempting and Cierra agreed.

But here’s the deal … According to the suit, the concerts never took place and Cierra believes Cee Lo’s people never intended for them to take place. The suit claims it was all “a scheme designed to finagle funding capital for concerts they knew would not manifest.”

Cee Lo is not accused of being part of the conspiracy — although his people certainly are — but he’s being sued for allegedly refusing to perform the 2 concerts.

Cierra wants a whopping $14.2 million.

We contacted Cee Lo’s people and so far no response.

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Wiz Khalifa – Hard Knock TV Interview (Part 2)

February 8, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Interviews No Comments  

In part 2 Wiz Khalifa talks to Nick Huff Barili about friendship with Kevin Durant, wanting to working with Dr Dre and doing movie and soundtrack with 50 Cent. Wiz also talks about new track with Joe Budden featuring French Montana and himself, called NBA and New track with Curren$y featuring Rick Ross and himself, called Choosin. Young Khalifa goes on to say that Joe Budden thought Wiz was gonna tax him for feature but that when we wants to work with artists he is not worried about that. Nick asks Wiz for his take on the whole Molly movement and new tracks he has with Tyga and Lil Durk. Wiz explains that he thinks that there is money to be made by being part of the movement but that he himself is not into doing Molly and will rather stick to Marry. Part 2 of this interview ends with Wiz clarifying that he is not smoking blunts in the Hundred Bottles video and states that he is currently listening to Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Max B, Spitta, Riff Raff and Joey Badass among other stuff.

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Ralph McDaniels On The Combat Jack Show

February 8, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Interviews No Comments  

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It’s the Box That Rocks! Ralph McDaniels, founder of the seminal Video Music Box talks thirty years of history. Highlights include how Big Daddy Kane shot someone causing him to miss “The Symphony” video shoot, how we wasn’t fucking with Mr. Magic at first, gunplay at NaS’s “It Ain’t Hard To Tell” video shoot, running with a young and grimy Russell Simmons, allowing a young Jay-Z to play hype man for the Notorious B.I.G. and how really good he is in these streets. This is #RapHistoryMonth b. #Newmanati.

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Lance Bass Blasts Chris Brown For Alleged Use Of Slur

February 8, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

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From Hip-Hop Blog:

Former N*Sync member Lance Bass takes exception to Chris Brown tossing around “F-bombs.” Breezy is accused of calling bisexual singer Frank Ocean a “f*ggot” during their brawl in late January, and Bass says he should know better.

“Calling people fa**ot and that stuff, I mean, he may not even mean what he means, but it’s a derogatory term that people throw out there and without even knowing why they are saying it,” Bass told Celebuzz. “But when it comes to Frank Ocean and knowing that he’s … very out … it was definitely meant to hurt him. It’s never good to throw those words out there that mean so much.”

“[Brown] should understand that being a black man himself. He should know that the F word is just like calling you the N word in a very derogatory way,” Bass said. “When you come from a minority like that, being gay or black or whatever, it’s like there should be an understanding, like we all get each other. But you don’t see that a lot, which is really sad.”

You can read the full report here.

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