Rap star Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter is currently sitting on a $150 million Live Nation deal, and he’s newly-wedded to superstar Beyonce - but a former heavyweight champion got news for Hov: the honeymoon is over.
According to Allhiphop.com, former boxer Mitchell Rose has plans to sue the rapper for $88 million for, basically, stealing his style. “He took the style and the delivery,” Rose told AllHipHop.com. “…All I want is justice. Jay-Z knows what I am talking about."
Rose, a 39-year-old Brooklyn native, went on to say that he slipped Jay his demo at a William Joppy and Felix Trinidad fight. He later said he heard his style smeared all over Jay’s songs, a whisper sound that Rose claims is his.
"I had previously trained some of my artists to use that style, but it quickly became obsolete after Jay-Z got a hold of it," Rose says. "He [Jay-Z] used the whispering to enhance his music and financially benefit from it. Jay-Z disregarded the fact that it was my demo where he got the style from as he went on to use it for his own personal gains, which is wrong.”
June 12, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
Former Heavyweight Boxer Plans to Sue Jay-Z for $88 Million
Mitchell Rose says Jay-Z stole his style
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zodiac says:
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This is funny....
Jay-Z seems to have lot of possible expenses coming up...
This $88 million dollar attempt to use Jay-Z to generate revenue.
pay $5 million dollars to Beyonce to have his "child".
If he by chance has an child with someone else. The cost hasn't been disclosed.
Live Nation may look at this as a major "RISK". We can stipulate the contract gives them an out for more cause than Jay-Z can come up with. They're really only interested in his "style" and name.
June 16, 2008 at 11:59 pm
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SammieFresh says:
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So Mitchell Rose Lying his ass off.
Why would Jay Z Steal his style, an old washed up boxer, that never won any fights.
Jay Z been raw and he Dont need to steal sombodys whispher
The Reason Mitchell Rose whisphers cuz he got half of his teeth knocked out in them damn boxing matches
June 13, 2008 at 11:07 am