VIBE Magazine Ex-President Hit With Lawsuit For Allegedly Masturbating Next To ESPN Sportscaster

November 4, 2011 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

Ha-ha. Spotted on Sandra Rose:

A former ESPN executive is suing a one-time colleague over allegations he fondled himself underneath an iPad while sitting next to sportscaster Erin Andrews on a flight.

Keith Clinkscales claims the suggestion he masturbated in front of the ESPN and Good Morning America reporter is a ‘flat-out lie’ spread by Joan Lynch, an executive producer he fired.

The 47-year-old ex-Vibe magazine president filed a defamation lawsuit in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday, which accused Mrs Lynch, 36, of having a partly racial motive for the accusation.

Mr Clinkscales, who left his role as ESPN’s head of content development when it was announced last month that the group was disbanding, also claims Mrs Lynch was annoyed because he was promoted over her.

Once dubbed ‘the boy wonder of black magazine publishing’ by The Washington Post, Mr Clinkscales became chief operating officer of the hip-hop bible Vibe aged 29 before becoming a senior vice president at ESPN in 2007.

In her executive producer role, Mrs Lynch most notably headed the development of the Emmy-nominated documentary series ’30 for 30′.

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Common Discusses His “Sweet” Rant

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Earlier this week Common’s single Sweet premiered on Hot 97. He got on the phone with XXL to discuss the rant on the end of the song.

When I heard “Sweet” I though to myself, “I haven’t heard Common talk shit like that since One Day It’ll All Make Sense.” What made you bring that old Common back?
Common: It’s funny you say the old Common, ‘cause one of my boys said, “Man, you remind me of when you was at FAMU [Florida A&M University] when he heard that song. He was like, “I’ve been waiting for that song for 20 years from you. I think what I did was just not put that responsibility of saying, “Man, OK, just because I went to the White House, I can’t express that side of me. Or just because I’m doing this brand partnership and because I am speaking to the kids and say, “Do something right,” that still don’t mean I ain’t an adult that feel like, “Nigga, get yo’ hoe ass out of here,” or I’ma fight when I need to fight. I had to make that decision for myself and part of it was just me being more comfortable in my skin and being like, “I’m a man, I ain’t gotta sit around and be worried about what everybody is gon think. I just gotta be who I am, what I am and say what I feel and if that shit come out not the right thing, it’s not the right thing sometimes. But it’s right because it’s what I’m feeling and it’s true to the art and it’s music.
You also had the line, “Take a dive like Greg Louganis and his bitch ass.” He hit his head on the diving board. What made you come up with that line?
I mean, he was soft. He was gay. [Laughs] At that time, I was just saying what was on my mind. I had a different way of thinking then in a way. I’m still gon’ say what’s on my mind, but you know, now whatever that person doing, that’s what they do. You can hear on “Sweet” I’m like, “You soft ass muthafuckas, hoe ass niggas.” I’m just gon let it out, if I gotta let it out.
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Young Jeezy – TM103 (Updated Tracklisting)

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This update comes from the lucky folks who attended his listening session in NYC last night. After the jump.

1. Intro
2. Trap Ft. Jill Scott (Prod. J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
3. OJ Ft. Fabolous & Jadakiss
4. Nothing
5. Leave Ya Alone Ft. Ne-Yo (Prod. Warren G)
6. Smoke And Fuck
7. Superfreak
8. Lose My Mind Ft. Plies
9. Win Prod. (Shawty Redd)
10. .38
11. Higher Learning Ft. Snoop Dogg, & Devin The Dude
12. Used To Have Nothing
13. That’s What (Not sure if this is the corrent title)
14. I Do Ft. Jay-Z & Andre 3000

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Jhene Aiko – In Love We Trust

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‘In the heart of a lady there’s a lost little girl / With a head full of curls and the weight of the world on her shoulder
But her story is colder, hold up!
All the men that she said to encountered/ Have proved to be cowards, misused, and abused and have bruised her with power
Now her doubts get louder
And all her tears start building up, building up, building up
And all her fears start giving up, giving up, giving up
She don’t believe in love no more, no more, no more
She don’t believe in love, but I believe in her’
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Reebok: The Romantic Process of Jesse Boykins III (Part 2)

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Nope, don’t remember Part 1 at all.

Singer-songwriter Jesse Boykins III mixes vintage etiquette with Internet eloquence, romantic visions with an instinct for presentation, and soulful performances with overseas plane tickets.

His breakthrough came in 2008 with the release of Dopamine: My Life of my back, an LP that included the hit song Tabloids which hit #2 on the Billboard Video monitor. His second album,Beauty Created, confirmed his talent and opened the door for collaborations with the likes of Theophilus London, The Foreign Exchange, Melo-X, Machine Drum and Phantom Lover.

Jesse’s ever growing worldwide following is explained by his constant flow of quality work, often the product of organic collaborations that spark within his multi-talented group of friends: Video director Dr. Woo, singers Melo-X, Mara Hruby or the style bloggers at Street Etiquette.

In a quest to discover more than what meets the ear, we spent some time with Jesse and picked his brain — and his heart – about the process that goes into his art.

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