Friday, August 24, 2007

Can this guy be serious?!!!!

OK. Where do I begin? So I can understand that the Canadians can be assholes sometimes, but then what country don't have assholes? And I understand that rappers are the victim of profiling at times but on the flipside ni**as do say that they will shoot you in the face so it's kind of tit for tat. This guy on the left is a producer for Murdercap records, an up and coming label in Detroit. He's got a 9o0 million dollar lawsuit against the Canadian government alleging enough with the racial profiling across Canadian borders. Still, I dont have a problem with that. However what I do have a problem with is one of his choices for representaion...ni**a chose Oprah. Oprah? Oprah Winfrey negro woman from the south?!! (shout out to Howard Stern on that hilarious sound byte). Not too long ago I believe that she spoke out against hip-hop and what it was representing in it's lyrics and videos. Which is her right as a billionaire and an American citizen, though I may not agree with everything she says. Why would you even think that she would want to testify on YOUR behalf?!!! The name of your label is Murdercap Records. M-U-R-D-E-R-C-A-P. The word murder kind of insinuates that you and your label mates will murder somebody. Your pic has you with your hands out like your holding guns ready to cap a muthafucka!! Call me crazy but I don't think that Oprah is going to get on the stand and say "You know I totally stand behind Murdercap records and what they are trying to do." She told Kanye West that she didn't even like some of the things that he said and Kanye aint even a gangsta rapper! I applaud your efforts...but get a clue homeboy, and while your busy searching for that clue enjoy your 15 minutes...


Krizz

Oprah, Paris Hilton subpoenaed in lawsuit over Canadian border crossing
Paul Egan / The Detroit News

A Detroit record producer has subpoenaed Paris Hilton, Oprah, Mick Jagger and more than three dozen other celebrities to appear in Detroit on Sept. 22 to testify in his $900 million federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination by Canadian border officials.
But a law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law said it is unlikely the 41 entertainment figures will have to appear at Cobo Center to give depositions in Jerome Almon's lawsuit.
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Without being well-versed on the facts of the case, I think that autograph-seekers should not start lining up for the event," Professor Lawrence A. Dubin said today.
Almon, 42, who heads the rap label Murdercap Records, filed a lawsuit in January in U.S. District Court in Detroit alleging he and other black rappers are unfairly harassed and detained by officials at the Canadian border.

Canadian officials have denied they discriminate on the basis of race.
Almon said today he is subpoenaing black celebrities such as Oprah, Spike Lee and Snoop Dogg because he wants them to testify about their own problems experienced at the Canadian border.
And he wants white celebrities such as Martha Stewart and Paris Hilton, who have both done jail time, to testify about how comparatively easy it is for them to cross into Canada, often receiving "red carpet" treatment, he said.

"I'm dead serious," said Almon, who alleges he has been repeatedly detained and harassed by Canadian officials since 1992 and had his entry to Canada banned indefinitely in 2003, despite providing officials with documents showing he has no criminal record.
Hilton plans to visit Toronto Sept. 5 to shoot a film, despite being recently released from jail on repeat driving offenses, he said.

Almon said he had to rent a room at Cobo Center for the depositions.

Dubin said a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit can subpoena anyone, but in certain cases those who receive subpoenas can seek court orders overturning them.

"A judge has the responsibility to see that a litigant does not abuse the discovery process," Dubin said.

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