Pat The Manager served his former artist Chance The Rapper a million dollar lawsuit for breach of contract back in December . Now, Chance The Rapper cameback with a lawsuit of his own and is suing Pat The Manager.
Pat The Manager claimed he was entitled to 15% of net profits from the rappers merch, tours, song streams, and endorsements. Chance and his lawyers do not deny that in their lawsuit, but they did say the manager isn’t owed millions. The rapper claims the former manager abandoned his management responsibilities, delegated his responsibilities to his employees so he could spend more time pursuing his own separate interests and other businesses.
Overall, Chance is suing Pat The Manager for breach of contract and is asking for at least $1 million. The lawsuit mirror the million dollar lawsuit the manager served the rapper. This is a “you serve me, I’ll serve you scenario”. This will be up to the court now. Pat The Manager has denied the allegations, and called the claims baseless.
Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 after she became convinced that God had called her to leave the city and go into the countryside “testifying the hope that was in her”. Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title “Ain’t I a Woman?”, a variation of the original speech re-written by someone else using a stereotypical Southern dialect, whereas Sojourner Truth was from New York and grew up speaking Dutch as her first language.
A memorial bust of Truth was unveiled in 2009 in Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center. She is the first African American woman to have a statue in the Capitol building. In 2014, Truth was included in Smithsonian magazine’s list of the “100 Most Significant Americans of All Time”
The Paris based dance duo Daft Punk has called it quits after 28 years. The French duo consisting of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo defined the sound of French electronic music.
Their 1997 album Homework the 2001 follow-up put the group on the global dance stage.
Aside from the music, the duo had the entire visual package marked by their trademark robot helmets and black suits.
Universal Music Group has launched Virgin Music Label & Artist Services. Inspired and influenced by the spirit of the legendary Virgin Records label, the global network will deliver premium and flexible artist and label services to the industry’s entrepreneurs and independent talent worldwide.
Virgin was founded by Richard Branson in 1972, came to Universal as part of its acquisition of EMI’s recorded-music division in 2012.
Sir Lucian Grainge, Chairman and CEO of UMG, said: “Virgin has long been a name synonymous with disruptive innovation, musical creativity and entrepreneurialism.
“We are thrilled to announce the reinvigoration of this iconic music brand as a new model for global distribution and label services – combining UMG’s unrivalled regional executive teams with dedicated resources and best-in-class services and technology, to help foster long-term partnerships and deliver global success for the next generation of independent labels and artist talent.
“In total, this global launch represents an important evolution of our industry-leading strategy to be an accelerator and vital partner for the music’s best independent artists and entrepreneurs.”
The European Commission’s says that “press and quality journalism are not for free” so the Copyright Directive creates the condition for fair bargaining between press editors and online platforms.
Australia has its own problem with the big tech giant.
The former CEO of Facebook’s Australian business Stephen Scheeler urged users to delete the social network’s app in response to Mark Zuckerberg’s “sad” decision to block news from the platform in the country.
He said that Facebook’s controversial move “looks and feels ugly” and blasted CEO Zuckerberg’s motivations.
“I’m a proud ex-Facebooker, but over the years I get more and more exasperated. For Facebook and Mark it’s too much about the money, and the power, and not about the good,” Scheeler said. “Imagine if a Chinese company for example had done this, we would be up in arms. All Australians should be quite alarmed by this.”
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