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Slowthai Found Not Guilty In Rape Case

December 16, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Slowthai has been found not guilty of allegedly raping two women at a house party following a concert in Oxford, in September 2021. After 10 hours of deliberation, the jury decided against convicting him and his co-defendant, Alex Blake-Walker of three counts of rape. According to The Guardian, Slowthai broke into tears after they read the verdict.

The rapper’s defense attorney, Patrick Gibbs KC, said in his closing statements that Slowthai “wasn’t everybody’s stereotype of a rapper”, but instead a “thoughtful” and “modest” man who “throws himself, sometimes recklessly, into life.” He added: “Even if he [Mr Frampton] is acquitted, it [the allegations] will not leave him,” suggesting “he’ll be canceled for the rest of time.”

Slowthai Performs During Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival

Slowthai performs at That Tent during the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival held in Manchester. Tenn., on Saturday, June 18, 2022. © Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

As for the allegation, the two women say Slowthai and Blake-Walker met them before the show and provided them with VIP tickets. Afterward, they joined the two on their tour bus before eventually going to one of the women’s houses. Prosecutor Heather Stangoe further alleged that Slowthai and Blake-Walker raped the two women on the roof and gave each other high-fives as it happened. She also claimed the women’s friends realized what was happening and broke it up. The two women went to the police that same night. Judge Ian Pringle said during the trial that the case was a “question of consent” and that there was “no stereotype for a perpetrator or victim of rape.”

Slowthai broke onto the mainstream scene in 2019 with the release of his critically acclaimed album, Nothing Great About Britain. He followed that up with Tyron in 2021 before most recently releasing Ugly in 2023. He earned a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording in 2021 for “My High” with Disclosure and Aminé.

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Le’Veon Bell Relentlessly Taunts Meek Mill Over His Thoughts On The Jay-Z Allegations

December 11, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Meek Mill has had Jay-Z’s back for a while, which makes sense given they have worked together with their REFORM Alliance venture. However, their partnership goes back further, as the Philly native was also a part of Roc Nation. So, naturally, it was not a surprise to see him come to the defense of Hov following his shocking rape allegation, among others. He called out the media for inflating the story on Twitter, writing, “The goal is to start false narrative to create a matrix web. If you can control the story line you can control the matrix…. American media is totally unbelievable! I see “Jayz “ _ a 13 year old girl 300 times scrolling it’s called programming.”

He then added in a separate tweet, “The rap up smear.” Some folks on the platform felt he should have just kept his mouth shut, while also making the usual Diddy jokes. NFL running back Le’Veon Bell also got in on the piling on of Meek Mill, according to AllHipHop, and he was just as ruthless. He did so via a series of Instagram Story posts while including various tweets from the Dreamchasers MC.

Le’Veon Bell Shows Meek Mill No Mercy

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The first saw Bell target the aforementioned media call out, captioning over it, “Meek probably need to sit this one out.. lol.” He also included a photo of Jay-Z and Meek Mill posing for a picture to really hammer his point home. Then, the next one saw him rehash a post from the rapper when he said, “N****s be mad at me because they sold they soul for money and I didn’t lol I’m good I’ll take the long way.” Bell wrote over that tweet, “Meek so funny bro”

He then proceeded to dig up another embarrassing Twitter post in which Meek said, “I need vibrating panties with the remote lol they on Amazon? Lol.” He also included the video of him doing the bunny hop after losing a tennis match to Michael Rubin, captioning it, “ain’t sell ya soul huh?” This is not the first time Bell has gone after Meek like this, though. During the heat of all of the allegations against Diddy and Meek’s alleged sexual relationship with the mogul, Bell was all over that, too. Overall, the rapper just can’t catch a break these days.

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Joe Budden Reveals Why He Isn’t Covering Jay-Z Allegations On His Podcast This Week

December 10, 2024 by newhiphopnews

The coverage of Jay-Z’s rape allegation has been nonstop the subplots keep on rolling in. Every publication you could possibly imagine is reporting on it, but one really. That would be The Joe Budden Podcast. So far, only one new episode has been uploaded in the last three days, with next one hitting on Wednesday. In that latest entry, the crew got nowhere near the story, so what gives? Well, their host and founder himself recently sent out a tweet to address the noise. “No need for think pieces guys, I’m dealing with a personal family matter, pls allow me to do so personally. Super grateful to each member of the crew for holding it down in my absence, thank you.”

Thankfully, social media users were respectful to his wishes and sending positive thoughts. “They did a great job! Prayers up!” one X user writes. “Take your time, Joe.” another adds. We too are wishing Joe Budden and his family the best during this time, and we hope that whatever is happening isn’t too dire. While it sounds like it’s been a wild week for Mr. Budden, the same can be said for Jay-Z.

Joe Budden Is Dealing With A Personal Matter

As it stands, him and his lawyer, Alex Spiro, are making some serious moves to get this case wiped. In the last 48 hours since the rape allegations news began to circulate, Spiro, is going at Tony Buzbee and this alleged victim. His most recent offensive play has been to accuse the Houston lawyer of coercing this Jane Doe to bringing Diddy into this lawsuit.

“After several outreaches, the woman again spoke with members of the Buzbee firm, who she felt were pressing her to make allegations,” Spiro wrote to Judge Analisa Torres. “When the woman declined to adopt the version of events proposed by members of the Buzbee firm, she was summarily dropped as a client. Though the woman provided her identity to Ms. [Mari] Henderson, she wishes to remain unnamed at this time for fear of retaliation by the Buzbee firm.”

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Charlamagne Tha God Responds To DJ Akademiks Saying That He’s Showing Bias Toward Jay-Z

December 10, 2024 by newhiphopnews

DJ Akademiks has been extremely vocal about Jay-Z since the moment the news broke about his bombshell allegation. The rap mogul and businessman is currently looking to dismiss it as quick as possible at the moment as him and lawyer feel this has no validity. “Due to the highly sensitive nature of this matter and the intense media scrutiny it has generated, we respectfully request to be heard on an expedited basis. For the avoidance of doubt, Mr. Carter is entirely innocent. This is a shakedown,” his lawyer Alex Spiro said in a recent statement. On top of this, him and Hov are also looking for this Jane Doe to reveal her true identity going forward.

“Transparency in judicial proceedings is a fundamental principle,” Spiro said. “The plaintiff has failed to demonstrate any compelling reason to depart from this rule.” This is all still extremely fresh, so how long this plays out will be interesting to follow. Still though, Akademiks has not been too happy with how a lot of publications and other hip-hop media have been handling the news. The way he’s making it seem is that Jay-Z needs to be talked about in a more damning way.

Charlamagne Tha God Dismisses DJ Akademiks

breakfast-club react to Jay-z wanting the indentiy of Jane doe revealed. Also charlamagne tha god responds to dj Akademiks after he said he’s biased to Hov he’s shown him much more grace then he did to Drake pic.twitter.com/6cUgrUi4Vw

— joebuddenclips/fanpage (@Chatnigga101) December 10, 2024

It’s worth noting that Akademiks doesn’t particularly have lot of nice things to say about Roc Nation. He’s been highly critical and skeptical of their moves, especially during the Tory Lanez shooting. We say that because it’s possible that he wouldn’t mind seeing them (and in part Jay-Z) take hit following these allegations. Overall, he may have some bias too, even though he’s accusing others like Charlamagne Tha God and The Breakfast Club for showing it.

He felt that Charlamagne Tha God and the rest of the panel would be ripping Drake apart if he were Jay-Z’s shoes. However, he couldn’t disagree more. Charlamagne more so has an issue with lawyers trying to force and threaten those accused of paying a large sum of money or else. But he still isn’t buying the claims whatsoever, especially with the accuser remaining anonymous at the moment. Toward the end of the segment, Charlamagne also added that if there were clear-cut evidence proving that Jay-Z isn’t actually innocent (using Diddy beating Cassie as an example), then he would change his mind. For now though, he’s sticking by his opinion, regardless of what anyone has to say about it.

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50 Cent Finally Explains His History With Jay-Z & Diddy Following Their Rape Allegation

December 10, 2024 by newhiphopnews

There’s a possibility that we have been reading into 50 Cent’s feelings toward Jay-Z and Diddy all wrong. According to AllHipHop, the G-Unit head honcho made an appearance recently on Big Boy’s platform to discuss this very topic and his answers seem to be 100 percent authentic. They may also catch you off guard too, because they certainly did for us. If you have even been loosely following Fif, especially on social media, you may know that he usually doesn’t have the nicest things to say about either mogul. In general, he never misses the opportunity to troll either of them But, sometimes, he will really push the envelope. For example, very recently, Fif made a pretty savage joke after Jay-Z was seen at the premiere of Mufasa: The Lion King which stars Beyonce and Blue Ivy.

“Jay said they said I raped a kid, everybody get dressed we going to see Mustafa. LOL,” he wrote. It’s been met with harsh criticism from the internet, and rightfully so. As for Diddy, he’s been constantly commenting and taunting him throughout the Bad Boy Records case. But despite all of his 50 Cent’s devious (sometimes disrespectful) behavior toward them, he claims to not have any real issues with either of them.

50 Cent Sets The Record Straight On His Relationships With Hov & Puff

In terms of Puff, he says, “I haven’t had issues with Puff where I don’t like him. I don’t like things that he would do that make me uncomfortable.” Then, shortly after answering that, he moved right into Jay-Z. “It’s definitely not that,” meaning that 50 doesn’t really have much of a beef with Hov. “It’s just being competitive,” he said.

In fact, he even went as far as to wish the Roc Nation founder well during this difficult time. “I just hope things are all right for him internally. I mean at the crib. Because in the statement they mentioned his daughter being old enough to… ‘cuz she about 13. So it’s the same age as these kids they saying he did something to.” Fif added later on that he feels that the rape allegation against both of them (as well as the hundreds against Diddy) are unfortunately enough to tarnish their images. “The damage is already done by the allegation itself,” he said. It will up to you all if you believe him, but on the surface, he seems to have no malicious intent when’s he typing up his social media posts.

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DJ Akademiks Implores That Drake Needs To Remain Quiet Amid Jay-Z’s Rape Allegation

December 9, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Drake is now a major talking point within the discourse surrounding Jay-Z’s recent rape allegation thanks to DJ Akademiks. The rap media pundit has been intensely discussing this recent bombshell report of Hov allegedly sexually assaulting a then 13-year-old girl. The Jane Doe is accusing now the Roc Nation founder of the same act after initially only including Diddy in the October suit. Tony Buzbee, who’s been representing over 100 alleged victims in the latter’s case, re-filed it over the weekend. There have been a lot of shocked individuals online since the news hit, including one 50 Cent. Fif never been tight with Jay-Z, so he took the time to poke fun at him on IG.

“Ok, I don’t know what’s going on, but are we gonna still have the Super Bowl? I’m just asking for a friend!” Some are taking this as a genuine question from 50 Cent, but others feel they are reading right through him. The G-Unit boss loves to taunt his foes, so it’s reasonable to think that he would laughing at Jay-Z. This is something that DJ Akademiks is strongly encouraging Drake not to do right now.

DJ Akademiks Continues To Cause Debate Amid Jay-Z’s Lawsuit

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For some reason, he’s been looking to make loose connections fit with this Jay-Z story and Drizzy is one of them. Ak believes the Canadian superstar should just remain quiet, most likely because of the pedophile claims on Kendrick Lamar’s diss track, “Not Like Us.” We say that because the clip above only shows but so much. However, Ak and Wack 100 were also discussing the 2010 concert in Colorado in which Drake was in awe over a 17-year-old girl.

If you remember, he brought her onstage and kissed her after complimenting her on her looks. The legal age is 17 in Colorado, and Akademiks was defending The Boy on a technicality for his still weird behavior. Ak did mention earlier in his livestream that he feels this whole rape allegation is nonsense. Additionally, he was imploring other rappers to stop with these wild accusations because he feels that some women are out to chase a bag. Still, even though Drake has never been accused of such a thing, given how people feel about him and the consistent mention of pedophilia against him, Akademiks thinks they will come for him next.

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Jay-Z Files Motion To Have Rape Accuser Reveal Her Identity

December 9, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Jay-Z and his lawyer, Alex Spiro, are filing a new motion in regard to the rape allegation against him. According to TMZ, the latter sent it in Monday morning to a judge asking this Jane Doe to reveal her true identity moving forward. “Fair is fair. It is not consistent with justice, fairness, or the rules governing federal proceedings for the Plaintiff and her counsel to smear [Jay-Z]’s good name,” Spiro writes in the documents.

Additionally, the motion goes on to say that the rapper and Roc Nation leader has always kept an “impeccable reputation.” Moreover, Spiro makes it clear that Jay-Z has never been accused of or partaken in any sort of sexual misconduct. As we and many others have reported already. The Blueprint MC is currently facing a civil suit from this woman who alleges he raped her, along with Diddy, back in 2000. She claims this harrowing act allegedly took place at an after-party following the MTV Music Video Awards from that year.

Jay-Z And His Lawyer Are Looking To Level The Playing Field

Furthermore, the Jane Doe says she was just 13 at the time. There’s already been a lot of discourse about this bombshell news from fans online, as well as DJ Akademiks. He’s taken the major conspiracy angle, placing the blame for this particular instance at the feet of Kendrick Lamar. Drake also caught some flak, but most of his rant was targeted at the K. Dot. You can read his argument here.

Additionally, there’s already been a tense back-and-forth between Jay-Z and Tony Buzbee, the lawyer who filed the suit on behalf of the alleged victim. The former believes its complete and utter “blackmail” and that the Houston legal rep is essentially going about this all wrong. Jay feels that if this really did happen that Buzbee should be filing a “criminal complaint” instead. Buzbee then fired back with a statement on Twitter (X) saying that Jay-Z’s effort to “bully and harass me and this plaintiff” are not working and that he’s happy to be taking this court.

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DJ Akademiks Manages To Blame Kendrick Lamar For The Rape Allegation Against Jay-Z

December 9, 2024 by newhiphopnews

DJ Akademiks is going after everybody in his latest rant, and unsurprisingly, Kendrick Lamar is a part of it. The hip-hop media pundit went on livestream recently to discuss the recent bombshell allegation against Jay-Z. If you are just tuning in, the New York rapper and businessman is currently being accused of rape by a Jane Doe. She claims she was just 13 at the time of this encounter and it happened at an after-party following the 2000 MTV Music Video Awards. The lawsuit was originally filed in October and only included Diddy’s name. However, on behalf of Tony Buzbee, it was adjusted and sent back in to have Hov in the suit.

Jay-Z feels it’s blatant “blackmail” and that the Houston lawyer should have filed a “criminal complaint” instead. Buzbee also spoke out and addressed the Roc Nation founder’s statement and he seems more than ready to head to court. As for how DJ Akademiks, Kendrick Lamar, and even Drake, to an extent, tie into this, let us explain. As we said, Ak broke things down on his platform and talked about how it’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Especially since he feels that Roc Nation as portrayed themselves as “saints.”

The Internet Can’t Believe This Kendrick Lamar Take From DJ Akademiks

Dj akademiks says Kendrick Lamar created a atmosphere were all accusations should be believed with his drake narrative. And now that jay z is in the hot seat he looks crazy . pic.twitter.com/QXA939URQQ

— joebuddenclips/fanpage (@Chatnigga101) December 9, 2024

If you have been following the journalist’s career, you know he’s been against Jay-Z’s entertainment company for a while. While he essentially thinks very little of this lawsuit, Akademiks is upset with one person in particular for this happening. He puts the blame on Kendrick Lamar for constantly talking about the “weird case” surrounding Drake’s affiliate, Baka Not Nice. Akademiks is also disappointed with him he thinks Lamar is endangering his contemporaries in world where allegations are running rampant.

Shockingly, Ak called out Drake a little bit too for doing the same thing during the beef. If you remember, he accused Lamar of beating on his significant other. But overall, Akademiks is placing a lot of it at Kendrick’s feet because he’s portayed himself as “Jesus” in his mind. As you could imagine, the internet was left speechless and annoyed with this take.

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Lil Reese Arrested On Rape Charges For Allegedly Forcing Himself On Woman In L.A. Hotel

July 15, 2024 by newhiphopnews

News reports have confirmed that Chicago drill rapper Lil Reese was arrested on rape charges for allegedly forcing himself on an unidentified woman in a Los Angeles hotel.

Boosie Badazz first reported the arrest on social media, claiming that he witnessed the police put Reese in handcuffs. Reports from TMZ say that Reese went on a date with a woman on Sunday and the couple went to a hotel after their outing. According to the reports, Reese “insisted” that the two have sex, but the woman declined. She alleged that Reese forced himself on her shortly after refusing his advances.

The woman allegedly ran to the front desk immediately after and called the authorities.

He was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and rape, but has since been released on $100K bond.

There are few details currently available about the case, but TheSource.com will update the story as more details develops.

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Diddy Rape Accuser To Move Her Lawsuit To A New State After Recovering More Evidence

May 6, 2024 by newhiphopnews

With the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef dominating headlines for weeks, Diddy new has been quiet or nearly nonexistent. But that doesn’t mean the rap mogul isn’t still in a lot of trouble. He’s still dealing with the federal investigation into allegations of sex trafficking. At the same time he’s facing numerous lawsuits alleging a history of bad behavior going back decades. One of the most serious includes allegations of raping a 16-year-old girl in 1990. Now that particular case is getting some new developments as it’s expected to move from New York to New Jersey.

According to AllHipHop, the refiling is due to newfound evidence described in a recent letter to the judge. “Plaintiff and this writer have received information from several witnesses: a former employee of UMG subsidiary Uptown Records and a Bad Boy Records executive. This new information adds context to the Plaintiff’s claims and clarifies the timeline. The first and second witnesses have photos of Plaintiff and Defendant Aaron Hall from the day of the assault, which was taken a few hours before he raped Plaintiff. The first and second witnesses also confirmed that the sixteen-year-old plaintiff was assaulted at the MCA event in New York City, went to dinner in New York City, and then was taken to New Jersey, where the rape occurred,” the letter reportedly reads. It’s unclear how this change will effect the timeline of the case being heard.

Diddy’s Rape Accusation Case Will Be Re-Filed In New Jersey

EXCLUSIVE: Diddy Accuser Obtains Key Evidence & Plots New Venue For Lawsuithttps://t.co/ITg5BnFU8N

— allhiphopcom (@allhiphopcom) May 6, 2024

The one person who hasn’t stopped posting about and talking about Diddy won’t come as a surprise to anybody. 50 Cent was one of the first people to start taking public shots at the rap mogul when he was first sued by Cassie last year. And he hasn’t slowed down since including over the weekend when he made his latest post.

What do you think of the newest development in Diddy’s ongoing legal troubles? Do you think the legendary rap mogul will eventually face any actual financial or legal punishment for the allegations being leveled against him? Let us know in the comment section below.

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