1.16.2004

Under Investigation


Rapper Ja Rule's record label, Murder, Inc., is under investigation for money laundering with one of New York's biggest and most infamous drug kingpins...

Island Def Jam Music Group head Lyor Cohen also owns 50 percent of Murder, Inc. and was recently found guilty of colluding with Ja Rule to block sales of his old records from his old label, TVT. The result? Island Def Jam has to pay TVT 53 million dollars, with Cohen being personally responsible for 3 million of it... The judge in the case called Cohen "morally reprehensible."

This is besides the whole current investigation into Ja Rule and Cohen for laundering and such... I hope to god they take that fool down... and that stank-assed Ashanti, too... It goes on all over the music business, but at least someone's getting called on it, for once... Maybe soon, you can turn it on Mtv's "Cribs" and see Ja Rule out on the streets showing you his cardboard box... or maybe his 5' x 10' prison cell... I can't decide which one I'd rather see. Either would do, I guess...


Listening to: Korn - "Take a Look in the Mirror" (2003)