Kool Herc To Sue Jay-Z For $5 Billion For Slave Reparations...

[Gemma]

EDIT: Kool Herc is not suing anyone it is a different Clive Campbell. Look here for the UPDATE.
http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/02/25/19340728.aspx
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/i...ve-reparations

DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell) is teaming up with Brooklyn based organization Da Black Defense League to file a $5 billion lawsuit against Jay-Z, real estate developer Bruce Ratner and Barclay's British Bank, all in connection with the Atlantic Yards project.

In the filed claim, Herc said that Mr. 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."

The Atlantic Yards project, a $4 billion investment, would include a basketball arena for the Nets, more than 6,000 apartments, middle-income housing, commercial offices, retail establishments, and a boutique hotel - all located within downtown Brooklyn.

Bruce Ratner, president and CEO of the New York division of Forest City Enterprises and currently the real estate developer for the project, has been accused of having links with the slave trade through Barclay's Bank. Ratner, who also co-owns the the New Jersey Nets with Jay-Z, a huge supporter and endorser of the project, plans to bring the Nets to Brooklyn upon the construction of the Arena.

The Barclays Center, which would be the new home for the NBA team New Jersey Nets, was named after Barclays Bank, who purchased the naming rights to the arena for a price of nearly $400 million over a 20 year span.

Herc and members of Da Black Defense League, filed the "claim of lien" in October. Barclay's Bank denies the accusations that have been made along with Forest City Ratner, who dismissed the claim as not having any legal merit.

A representative from Da Black Defense League is proceeding to file a lawsuit in court today and has called for a boycott of the New Jersey Nets.

Herc and Da Black Defense League are not the only opponents in the development of the Atlantic Yards Project. New York City Council member Letitia James and many organizations such as Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, the Washington D.C. based National Trust for Historic Preservation and Democracy for New York City (DFNYC) have all expressed their opposition to the project.

A spokesman for Forest City Ratner has declined to make any comments.

 

[bigblackafrica]

 

[forcesteeler]

Nigga Jay-z don't even have a Billion and you want 5?

I swear niggas get dumber every day,

 

[ARDMORESTAR]

wtf?

 

[Esther]

Aiming High.

 

[the Imm font]

wtf... i can understand..... but to connect it with slavery because they are building buildings in Ny in the present day..... im for reperations... but that article cant be the complete story

 

[Pimp Red]

 

[Damn Right]

Nigga Jay-z don't even have a Billion and you want 5?

I swear niggas get dumber every day,

 

[oatsuzn]

They're suing the developer - Bruce Ratner. Jay-z is a small percentage owner of the Nets which Ratner also owns a majority in.

Not a Jay fan, but they dragging his name into this because they want publicity.

 

[34real]

This is bigger than jay-z,they basically added his name against kool herc's name to give it that shock value.Or maybe it was done to bring attention to it from the masses.But either way the names dont matter.

 

[DarkCity]

I would love to see how they connect the dots on this one.

But how do you pick which corporation to sue for reparations and for what amount

 

[costelloceo]

Lawsuit not withstanding, Jay has his hand in one hell of a deal. If he were to clear ten percent of the property money (not counting locked in residuals from Nets ownership), he stands to profit immensely.

 

[DCMC]

[Jay Z] What y'all niggas get front page articles, y'all mention Jay-Z name
(This thing on?) Jay-Z, Jay-Z, in Jay-Z news
I understand what y'all trying to do [/BP2]

 

[unknownsoldier]

They're suing the developer - Bruce Ratner. Jay-z is a small percentage owner of the Nets which Ratner also owns a majority in.

Not a Jay fan, but they dragging his name into this because they want publicity.

Got it all twisted bro...fair exchange is never a robbery. WHY do you think J became "part" owner of the Nets??? It wasn't because he's a hot, rich, rapper...hell P has had way more money than J for years, same for Puff, but who better to sucker niggas outta brooklyn than BK's most famous son? Who better to convince niggas to sell out of their homes so that the complex could be built?? None other than Jay Z. He's a corporate puppet, not marketing genius or savy business man. He's who corporate America hand-selected to feed poison to his people. Kinda ironic seeing as how he resembles a similar figure in Joe Camel. He's worse than what they accused Hammer of doing!

 

[Gemma]

http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/02/25/19340728.aspx

Rap mogul Jay-Z is at the center of a $5 billion dollar "claim of lien" filed against him by Brooklyn activist Clive Campbell and the DA Black Defense League.

The New York Observer originally reported that Hip-Hop founder Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell filed the claim along with the DA Black Defense League.

The paper recently released a correction, noting the error.

"This story originally reported that the Clive Campbell who filed the lawsuit was the real name of DJ Kool Herc, a found of Hip-Hop," The Observer noted. "In fact, it is a different Clive Campbell. Mr Campbell is a Brooklyn-based activist."
Campbell claims Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, as well as developer Bruce Ratner and Barclays bank 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."

As a result, Campbell and the DA Black Defense League seek money for slavery reparations through the "claim of lien" in property records.

A Defense League representative revealed to The Observer that the group is filing an official lawsuit in court today (Feb. 25) for the action.

According to The Observer, Barclays, Ratner and Jay-Z are connected in the case through their ties to a $4 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, where Ratner and Barclays plans to build a Frank Gehry-designed basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets, as well as more than 6,000 new apartments.

The project has received support from Jay-Z, a partial owner of the sports team that has appeared at press conferences to highlight its merits.

Barclays, which owns the naming rights of the arena has been accused of having links with the slave trade.

A recently study released on the 200th anniversary of Britain’s abolition of the slave trade by The Restitution Study Group claims that Heywoods Bank, which through mergers became Barclays Bank in 1969, took part in over 120 slave trading missions, allegedly enslaving over 38,000 Africans.

The bank has denied the accusations, as did Ratner's development group, Forest City Ratner, which dismissed the claim earlier this month, as not having any legal merit.

 

[oatsuzn]

Got it all twisted bro...fair exchange is never a robbery. WHY do you think J became "part" owner of the Nets??? It wasn't because he's a hot, rich, rapper...hell P has had way more money than J for years, same for Puff, but who better to sucker niggas outta brooklyn than BK's most famous son? Who better to convince niggas to sell out of their homes so that the complex could be built?? None other than Jay Z. He's a corporate puppet, not marketing genius or savy business man. He's who corporate America hand-selected to feed poison to his people. Kinda ironic seeing as how he resembles a similar figure in Joe Camel. He's worse than what they accused Hammer of doing!

I don't know if you are originally from NY or if you know the area but the Atlantic yards is NOT the hood. It is a commercial business area where crackers own much of the brownstones, apartment buildings and townhouses. These Jewish realtors and crackers are unmoved by Jay-z. Jay-z's raps don't mean shit to them. This development will be in litigation for years, probably a decade before anything is started.

 

[TEN]

everybody suing everybody
only thing gonna be left on earth is roaches and lawyers.

 

[jblaque]

Got it all twisted bro...fair exchange is never a robbery. WHY do you think J became "part" owner of the Nets??? It wasn't because he's a hot, rich, rapper...hell P has had way more money than J for years, same for Puff, but who better to sucker niggas outta brooklyn than BK's most famous son? Who better to convince niggas to sell out of their homes so that the complex could be built?? None other than Jay Z. He's a corporate puppet, not marketing genius or savy business man. He's who corporate America hand-selected to feed poison to his people. Kinda ironic seeing as how he resembles a similar figure in Joe Camel. He's worse than what they accused Hammer of doing!

INTERESTING READ!

 

[Diabolical]

negro please

 

[dacoolcaucasian]

Its because Barclays made a ton of money on the slave trade. Their just suing the camel for working with them.No way this holds up in court. my opinion is that the government needs to quit with all this we owe the slaves something bullshit. I dont know anyone that was a slave. their ancestorsd maybe... I believe its time that we all get over this part of our dark past. you dont see the japs crying for affirmative action and we did much worse to them......

 

[DANGEROUSBLACKMAN]

Shit He Suing The Wrong Person Then Cause Jay-Z Ain't Got 5 Billion.

 

[KingAddies]

Its because Barclays made a ton of money on the slave trade. Their just suing the camel for working with them.No way this holds up in court. my opinion is that the government needs to quit with all this we owe the slaves something bullshit. I dont know anyone that was a slave. their ancestorsd maybe... I believe its time that we all get over this part of our dark past. you dont see the japs crying for affirmative action and we did much worse to them......

The transgressions that occurred during the civil rights era were like the atomic bombs launched against the Japanese homeland. The vicious racism of Jim Crow was like being placed in a national internment camp where grown men were thought of as 3/5th of a human being. You may not know slaves but this was less than 40 years ago.

The Japanese had infrastructure *and* they got reparations from the American government for Nagasaki and Hiroshima - we even provide protection for them while they get stronger and bleed us dry with importing and outsourcing - this affects blacks as well as white. The Asians can build and reverse enginer but when blacks tried to build infrastructure - once it gets big enough the burn it down sort of like an atomic bomb - please read about The Black Wall Streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Wilmington, NC.

I tell ya - white folks got their eyes and fists so focused on black and don't see the mexican until it's too late, they didn't see osama's ass and the won't see the Asian and the Bear until it's too late. I'm not for reparations cause the country is broke! - there's no money! They are busy donating oil to North Korea again! Spending money to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan $80 billion a pop. Afghanistan was a piece of shit before we got there with rolling blackouts, no paved roads and horrid drinking water - don't give those fuckers $80. Heh. Yeah you don't know slaves... fucking geniuses on this bitch I swear.

 

[34real]

The transgressions that occurred during the civil rights era were like the atomic bombs launched against the Japanese homeland. The vicious racism of Jim Crow was like being placed in a national internment camp where grown men were thought of as 3/5th of a human being. You may not know slaves but this was less than 40 years ago.

The Japanese had infrastructure *and* they got reparations from the American government for Nagasaki and Hiroshima - we even provide protection for them while they get stronger and bleed us dry with importing and outsourcing - this affects blacks as well as white. The Asians can build and reverse enginer but when blacks tried to build infrastructure - once it gets big enough the burn it down sort of like an atomic bomb - please read about The Black Wall Streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Wilmington, NC.

I tell ya - white folks got their eyes and fists so focused on black and don't see the mexican until it's too late, they didn't see osama's ass and the won't see the Asian and the Bear until it's too late. I'm not for reparations cause the country is broke! - there's no money! They are busy donating oil to North Korea again! Spending money to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan $80 billion a pop. Afghanistan was a piece of shit before we got there with rolling blackouts, no paved roads and horrid drinking water - don't give those fuckers $80. Heh. Yeah you don't know slaves... fucking geniuses on this bitch I swear.

Im glad you addressed him because I was do to the fact that He is just baiting and you make very good points with your last sentce.

 

[infamous-online]

Nigga Jay-z don't even have a Billion and you want 5?

I swear niggas get dumber every day,

c/s

 

[elchoccolatte]

I want some of that H2o that Nooka drankan

 

[PimpJuice]

Kool Herc is trying to get rich off of one court deal. He'll never get that but will he at least get 5 mil?

 

[Mr.O]

FUCK REPARATIONS,THE PEOPLE THAT ARE OWED SOMETHING HAVE PASSED ON.