Jay Z is being sued in a case of his former business partner, that claims he cheated of wages to employees of the opulence.Alex Bize co-owned the fashion label Rocawear with the hip-hop mogul but Jay-Z sold his half for hundreds of millions.
Former fashion designer Michele DeBellis The company alleged that he was conned in wages was around 29000 and is fired after she complained.
DeBellis worked for Bize’s Contemporary Streetwear, said that a year she was hired at $130,000, as the merchandiser and designer for the CAVI Women’s Collection but that she rarely saw their paychecks and not have some of his colleagues.
Rap legend Jay-Z with the Carpenters Union of NYC isn't popular at the moment.The carpenters went too far by shouting racial abuse during the protest, according to the 99 Problems star’s rep Lauren Manache.
She said, “The union is trying to bully 40/40 to hire union workers”.
She added, “They were shouting racial slurs and it was a very inappropriate demonstration”.
She said, “They even used the N-word on the street and during phone calls to 40/40 management”.
The Carpenters union did not return calls for comment.
Manache added, “We have the right to hire a contractor who is not in the union”.
Jay-Z explained that the title ‘Watch The Throne', his collaborative album with Kanye West, means.
Jay-Z has said, Watch the Throne, you protect it. You just watch how popular music shift[s], and just how hip-hop basically replaced rock and roll as the youth music. The same thing can happen to hip-hop. It can be replaced by other forms of music.
He continued, So we [are] making sure that we put the effort into making the best product so we can contend with all this other music, with all the dance music that’s dominating the charts right now and indie music that’s dominating the festivals.
According to the Hip Hop DX report, he also said that the new album was not about to bow to current trends.
