This has got to be some of the silliest, foolishness i've heard ALL year!!!

Hip Hop mogul Jay Z may not be having as great a year as many would assume.

The Grammy winner, along with real estate developer Bruce Ratner and Barclays Bank, has just been slammed with a whopping $5 billion dollar lawsuit from one of Hip Hop's founding fathers, Clive Campbell, best known as DJ Kool Herc.

According to the New York Observer, Jay Z, Ratner, and Barclays Bank are all part of the $4 billion Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn, New York.

Bruce Ratner has his sights on building a basketball arena for Jay Z's Nets and more than 6,000 apartments in downtown Brooklyn.

Barclays Bank owns the naming rights to the arena, and has been accused of having links with the slave trade—an accusation the bank denies.


According to the suit, Campbell is seeking $5 billion for slavery reparations claiming Ratner and Jay-Z worked “in concert” with Barclays, and “profited from the African Slave Trade and continue to profit from these gains, through a conspiracy dating back hundreds of years and continue to date to oppress Black people, enslave them, unlawfully deport them to all corners of the Earth.”

No statement from Jay's camp has been released.


FIRST OFF...where in the hell does kool herc get off even FLIRTING with the thought, that JAY Z of ALL people, owes him even a piece of 5 billion in reparations???

I'm not too sure of his age, but if he isnt older than jay, then hes not that far off, which means, if todays date, was is slavery times, then that would mean they both would be enslaved......TOGETHER!!!

So slaves can hit off other slaves with reparation lawsuits?!?!

This guys fuckin retarded!!