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Dancehall artiste Bounty Killer is suing a British publisher in the High Court of Justice in London, United Kingdom, for millions of dollars the publisher collected on behalf of the artist in the UK from 2002 to 2021.

The dancehall legend is suing Othman Mukhlis, and his company Jamdown Limited and a third company owned by Mukhlis named Abood Music Limited, which he appointed to collect royalties on behalf of the deejay. According to the artist’s lawsuit, around 2001, Mukhlis contacted Bounty Killer, whose real name is Rodney Price, to collect agreed-upon royalties on his behalf in exchange for a percentage of the royalties.

The lawsuit claims that Mukhlis falsely misrepresented Bounty Killer and convinced him that it would be better if he were to collect the artist’s publishing royalties in the UK as withholding tax would take a significant sum- 30 percent of the monies he earns.

This information is implied to have induced Bounty into signing the agreement for Mukhlis to collect public performance royalties from the Phonographic Performance Limited (PPS) and the Performing Performing Rights Society (PRS) in exchange for a 15% collection fee of the overall sums collected.

However, Bounty Killer claims that Mukhlis’ companies Jamdown and Abood, over the period, collected more than £325,000 (J$60 million) in unpaid royalties from PPS and PRS.

That sum might also be more as Mukhlis also collected the publisher’s share of royalties on behalf of the King of Kingston artist.

According to the lawsuit, Mukhlis also collected the publisher’s share of royalties in which he would retain 10% of overall sums as agreed by Bounty Killer. Mukhlis registered Abood as the publisher for Mr. Price with PRS and later outsourced the collection with Perfect Songs Limited, but there has not been any account of monies for this set of royalties.

“Pending further investigations and the provision of further information, Mr Price does not know how much Abood and/or PSL, acting on behalf of Abood, have collected from PRS in respect of the publisher’s share of works written and/or co-written by Mr Price which are registered with PRS.”

The artiste also claims that Mukhlis has fraudulently collected the label share of the royalties in respect of the masters. The masters are not owned by Bounty Killer, and the artist has not named the owner.

“Further and additionally, in or around late 2001 Mr Mukhlis also registered Abood with PPL to collect the label share in respect of the master recordings of works performed by Mr Price. Mr Price does not own those rights so could not authorise Mr Mukhlis or Abood to collect them whether on his behalf or at all. At some point thereafter, Abood also outsourced collection of the label share to PSL,” the lawsuit said.

It’s unclear who owns the masters to Bounty’s songs and whether legal action is being taken by the label against Mukhlis in respect of the label’s share of master royalties.

Bounty Killer’s lawsuit says that in 2020, Mukhlis “acknowledged that sums were due to Mr Price,” but only transferred him the sum of £8,477.

As for what Bounty Killer is seeking from the court, the artiste claims royalties owed since 2002 and interest over the last 20 years. The artist has also asked the court to declare that all sums collected by Mr. Mukhlis, Jamdown, and/or Abood belong to him and are held in trust for him by Mr. Mukhlis, Jamdown, and/or Abood.

Bounty Killer is also seeking to rescind the contract he has with Mukhlis and his companies due to the fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation made by Mukhlis pertaining to the withholding tax.

The lawsuit was filed on June 14, 2022.

The artist has not publicly spoken about the lawsuit, but it is reported that his former manager had discovered the anomalies in his royalties.

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50 Cent says he was bothered by fat-shamers after his Super Bowl performance and shared some details about a running he had with Beyonce who confronted him about his beef with Jay-Z.

Beyoncé is often thought to be calm and private with her personal life, but Queen Bey’s Virgo side jumped out to defend her husband during his intense beef with 50 Cent. On Friday, the G-Unit rapper shared that Beyoncé was ready to put hands on him while they were out in public, and he approached her now husband to talk.

According to the “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” rapper, he was in Vegas for an event when Beyoncé hopped over a window ledge to get him and was “ready” to fight him over the beef with Jay-Z.

“She was on, like, a window sill. We was in Vegas,” he said, laughing. “She jumped out, she was like [pulls confrontational face]. And I’m like, Wait, what is you doing? That’s me and JAY-Z’s stuff, this ain’t got nothing to do with you, girl,” 50 says.

“She jumped off the ledge. I was like, ‘Oh, shit!’ I didn’t really know what to do. It was one of those situations where you were like, ‘Woah!’ If you say this to Jay, he’ll look at you and go, ‘Nah, that happened.’”

50 Cent has the hosts of the Breakfast Show cracking up as Charlamagne references the famous incident where Solange beats up Jay-Z for allegedly cheating on Beyoncé while they were all in an elevator as he tells 50 Cent to be grateful Solange was not there.

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“She came like she was ready! Like something was gonna happen! And I’m like, ‘Woah, woah, woah.’ She throwing me off now ’cause I don’t know exactly how to respond to this. You are still Beyoncé. She brought all of the sexy over with that energy jumping off,” 50 Cent added.

“I look at Jay and he go [laughs]. Nah, he’ll tell you … I said, ‘Yo, alright. Whatever.’ ‘Cause really I’m just saying what’s up. But she’s feeling my energy come over because we do say things about each other — it’s a competitive nature, that’s it!” he added.

50 Cent also jokes about the elevator incident with Solange.

“If Solange was there, I would’ve had to reboot! Solange was popping in that elevator like it was nothing. With some gangsta shit going on. Jay couldn’t do nothing, huh?”

50 Cent and Jay-Z’s intense beef lasted in the early 2000s after he threatened the New York rapper in his 1999 song “How to Rob”. Hov also responded on “It’s Hot (Some Like It Hot),” rapping: “Go against Jigga? Your ass is dense/I’m about a dollar; what the fuck is 50 cents?”

Despite him taking shots at Jay-Z over the years, 50 Cent says that the two men are now on good terms, but he did not say whether he is on Beyoncé’s good side as well.

On the other hand, 50 Cent has gotten a taste of his own medicine, and he says that the fat-shaming comments made about him during his Super Bowl Half-Time performance bothered him.

“That sh*t bothers me, man…Yeah ‘I’m like what you talking bout I’m not fat’…. I’ve fluctuated a lot throughout my run you know what I’m saying and it’s just my body type,” he explained as he shared that he is back in the gym and getting his workout in every morning since being trolled.

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Joycelyn Savage dropped a bomb on Friday afternoon, noting that she is carrying a child for embattled R&B singer R. Kelly. The R&B singer was recently sentenced to 30 years in jail for racketeering, sex trafficking, and other offenses.

On Friday, Savage released her new tell-all book, Love and Joy of Robert, in which she revealed that she is pregnant with the singer’s baby.

Savage recently revealed that R. Kelly proposed to her on the day of his sentencing by sending an engagement ring to her house even though he was heading to jail for 30 years, where he is likely to spend the rest of his life.

In the 11-page book (back and front 24 pages) released on Amazon on Friday, Savage, who is one of Kelly’s alleged victims, claims that she is months along with the pregnancy.

Joycelyn Savage said she knew a few months after 55-year-old Kelly sent her an engagement ring.

“Months later, I began expecting severe morning sickness and was unsure what was wrong with my body. I thought I had contracted COVID-19, but the most amazing news of all was that I was expecting,” she said. “It was a happy day but an incomplete time in my life. Today I am grateful to God for giving me the most precious gift. Robert is extremely excited about the news that I am having a baby and feels sad that Robert will not be able to be here with us,” the book read, according to the NY Post.

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The book does not say when or how R. Kelly could have impregnated Joycelyn Savage as he has been locked away for more than a year. Savage, who has denied any allegations that she is a victim of Kelly, also shared a sonogram of the pregnancy.

Savage also said that R. Kelly had some input in the book as he was the one who approved the image of the sonogram.

The 26-year-old says she is “hoping for him to be released and prepare for new beginnings,” in the book.

Last month before his sentencing, Savage wrote a letter to the judge pleading for leniency from the court. In the letter, she revealed that they were engaged. She also said that she is not a victim of the music icon.

Online, social media users speculated about the pregnancy as they questioned the veracity of the claim. Some questioned whether Savage had been allowed conjugal visits, and some have even surmised that if she is truly pregnant, she might be married to the singer.

There were speculations before that Kelly might have married Savage in the same way he married an underaged Aaliyah to prevent her from testifying against him decades ago.

His Attorneys have not responded to the claims.

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NBA YoungBoy didn’t take too likely Kodak Black saying he doesn’t like his Never Broke Again fans.

It looks like yet another beef is brewing in the hip-hop world. This time two very popular artists look set to go at it as NBA YoungBoy has responded and not kindly to Kodak Black’s criticism of his fans. Earlier this month, Kodak Black took to Twitter to share his opinion of YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s music.

While he admitted that he likes the “I Hate Youngboy” rapper’s music, he also said that he found the artist’s fans irritating. In that tweet, he added that he was stating what everyone else was afraid to say and felt like his opinion was the same consensus in the industry.

Youngboy fired back yesterday, August 11, on Instagram, calling out Kodak by saying that anybody who didn’t like his fans was a “pu*sy” in his books. That was the direct shot he took at Kodak, but the rest of the message was mostly a veiled one.

“To be honest I really don’t care about this being my last album,” he wrote. “I finally can say I completed something. I ain’t finish school. I never finish nothing but my smoke… but nah gangster I then shedded tears from the way y’all been doing me but it’s all for the better. tell li Dave and my grandma I completed something and I’m doing fine.”

Strangely enough, a short while after he made the post, his account was removed from Instagram. It’s not yet known if that move was voluntary.

However, it does appear that NBA YoungBoy puts his fans first and is willing to go to war to defend them. The post also made it clear that he doesn’t rock with anyone who puts down his fans. Kodak’s issues started when YoungBoy’s fans began trolling his posts by replying “YB Better.”

The “Tunnel Vision” rapper presented his evidence on Twitter on August 5. At that time, he took umbrage with how the fans were trolling him as he also added that it seemed he couldn’t do anything with Youngboy’s fans saying that their artist was better than him.

At one point, he posted: “N***a Can’t Even Post A Cheeseburger Without They A#s Under A Post Talm Bout ‘YB Post His Burger Better.’ I Love It That’s Kool But The Sh*t B Irritating Af Homie, Y’all Stay On Dat N***a Page Wit Dat Sh*t.”

It seemed to affect his mental health so much that he threatened to delete his Twitter account, but that never materialized. In that disturbing tweet, he also said that he had reached the point where he felt like hurting YB’s fans, even though he promoted his new album in the same post.

It may have been a combination of things that had him in a weird mental space, though, as he also admitted that he was tired of the fame and the pressure that comes with it.

NBA YoungBoy and Kodak Black have never really been good with each other. In 2020, the Florida rapper went as far as to accuse the Baton Rouge rapper of cooperating with Houston police. That was in regards to the case with Floyd Mayweather’s daughter, Iyanna Mayweather, who was arrested for allegedly stabbing Lapattra Lashai Jacobs, who is the mother of YoungBoy’s child.

During that time, he said that Iyana stayed at his place and that she was his wife and even went as far as to say that NBA snitched on him while he was in jail. A lot of that tweet was also directed at NBA in anger.

Knowing how Kodak Black usually operates, there’s probably a strong response coming.

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Safaree Samuels is threatening to take legal action against an unnamed person for the leaked private video of him and his girlfriend Kimbella Matos.

The videos were leaked on Thursday night and were being sold pay-per-view by a blogger on Patreon. A ten-minute clip has been circulating on Twitter and other sites showing the couple getting in on various occasions. Their identities are visible in the video, with Matos lying on the bed and Safaree standing behind her. There is also a video showing Matos giving Safaree “brains.”

An irate Safaree took to Twitter to warn that he will be taking legal action for the leak.

“I am Taking full legal and criminal action. The person who did that is going to pay. And I am not letting up either,” the Love & Hip Hop artist said.

Safaree is no stranger to leaks, as photos and videos of his private parts have leaked many times before. However, the rising rapper says that he is not taking this latest incident lightly.

“Not letting this 1 slide. This is a cyber crime and I am pressing full charges!” Safaree added.

Safaree has previously been a victim of alleged cybercrime after his nudes went viral, leaving fans speechless at the size of his package. A confident Safaree has, however, turned the negative into a positive as he has a adult toy collaboration from the first leak of his privates.

There are speculations that Erica Mena might be behind the leak, but she has been very quiet on social media as she is busy promoting her Fox’s Tubi movie, The Stepmother.

Months ago, Erica Mena and Matos went at it as they traded accusations, with Mena calling the Instagram model a “Prostitute” and Matos dishing information on Mena, claiming that she was selling herself to rich ball players.

Kimbella Matos responded to the tweet while accusing Erica of being obsessed with her and calling her uneducated.

Erica Mena and Safaree announced they were officially divorced in March 2022 after being married for less than three years. The pair met on the cast of Love and Hip Hop franchise and got married in October 2019. However, their relationship was characterized by various problems after the birth of their first child. The former couple shares two children Legend, 1, and Majesty Safire, 2.

Mena has often accused Safaree of being a deadbeat father and had shared that Safaree was out partying for his birthday while she gave birth to their son. He also didn’t see the baby, who had to be hospitalized in NICU after birth, until days later. Safaree, on the other hand, has accused Mena of being difficult to deal with and keeping him from his children.

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