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Former Bad Boy Exec Charged With Money Laundering

Slicksno — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:00:00 +0000

Source: AllHipHop.com

A former president of Bad Boy Records has been charged with laundering $1 million dollars in drug money through a bogus company.

Kirk Burrowes, who filed a $25 million dollar lawsuit against Sean “P. Diddy” Combs last year, is accused of depositing proceeds from cocaine sales into the bank account of a company known as Gutter Keys.

The indictment was unsealed in Manhattan Federal Court last week. The documents revealed that Burrowes cellphone was [...]

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Slicksno — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:00:00 +0000

Lil Kim was denied permission to travel to perform in the Caribbean resort of St. Kitts by a federal judge reports AllHipHop.com.

Judge Gerard E. Lynch said Kim could not leave the United States, after she posted $500,000 bond due to perjury charges.

Authorities claim Kim lied to a Grand Jury about her knowledge of a 2001 daylight shooting. The decision will cost Lil Kim $35,000 in performance fees and she is [...]

Heavy D Becomes a Bad Boy

Slicksno — Thu, 13 May 2004 05:00:00 +0000

Industry heavyweight emcee, Heavy D, has signed a ground breaking deal with Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy label.

According to allhiphop.com, the Mount Vernon bred rapper/actor will receive 100 percent of the profits from his yet-to-be titled Bad Boy release. That is of course, after the label recoups costs for producing the album, Heavy’s first since 1999.

“Puff and I been friends forever, were family,” said Heavy D. “We had talks about it over [...]

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Slicksno — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 05:00:00 +0000

David Chang, the creator of Ghettopoly, is suing Hasbro, the makers of Monopoly.

Hasbro, which makes Monopoly, filed their lawsuit to stop the sales of Ghettopoly, claiming trademark and copyright infringement. Chang says the game is a parody of Hip-Hop culture and that at least 100 other games end in “opoly.”

As a result of Hasbro’s cease-and-desist order, Chang said he’s been stopped from selling the game before it can go to court, due to a [...]