Up-and-coming rap group Da Youngfellaz is being sued in the Manhattan Supreme Court by Stigma Sound, a recording studio located in Manhattan, according to a story on nypost.com. The studio alleges that rappers Johnny Aguiar (stage name Jay Storm) and Brett Officer (stage name Sho-Biz), ran through a $130,000 marketing loan by spending it on drugs, first-class airplane tickets and cross-country trips to entertainment festivals at which the duo were not performing.
StigmaSound claims in the suit that the independent emcees blew an initial $25,000 loan, meant to advance the group “toward A-level stardom in the entertainment industry,” in just three months. “The defendants used loan money…for illegal purchases of marijuana,” claim the plaintiffs in the case.
Jay Storm and a third defendant, who is listed in the suit as Joseph Aguiar, do not deny that they smoked marijuana. Joseph Aguiar may be the general manager of New Rich Management, based on a Joe Aguiar being listed as such on Da Youngfellaz Facebook page.
The Bronx, New York-based rap group has said that Frank Marquez, owner of the StigmaSound recording studio, was the one providing the weed for them. The New York Post says that the Aguiars showed them a text allegedly from Marquez that reads, “Tell Storm I got the herbals for him and not all them motherfuckers.”
Mita Carriman, Marquez’s attorney, said that their allegations are “100 percent false.”
In addition to spending large sums on weed, the suit claims that about six months and $125,000 later Da Youngfellaz had only promoted one of their songs, a track titled “Incognito.”
Instead of using the loaned funds to promote themselves, the group is said to have spent $14,000 to attend the popular Austin, Texas, music festival SXSW, though they were not going to perform at the event.
According to the suit, Jay Storm wrote a mea culpa, or an acknowledgement of error or fault, for his behavior, to Marquez. Strom wrote, “I APOLOGIZE for all of my insults, and comments, I’ve QUIT smoking, and have been for about a month now, I haven’t told you this, but my body, and my mind are going through it, trying to get off the weed,” in an e-mail attached as an exhibit to the suit.
Da Youngfellaz is signed to New Rich Entertainment and has recorded with Talib Kweli, Snoop Dogg, George Clinton and Nipsey Hussle, according to the group’s website.
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fucking idiots
straight clowns. snitching to try and make themselves look better too smh
Some niggas just LOVE to fuck up
is that j cole?
Fuckin morons! Anyone could get a deal these days.
The one in the blue looks like a queer.
and you sound like one looking at men’s pictures that long
^ you must be his bitch.
They weren’t gonna be shit, anyway, so I hope they had fun.
“trying to get off the weed” lmfaooooo
Niggas tryin to one up the realest nigga gucci mane but that will never happen
Big Guwop aka gucci mane is the realest rapper and heres why.
1) all other rappers rap about being gangster shooting and killing but they havent done it.
2) Eminem raps about killing he hasnt.
3)Jay z raps in open letter about sending shots he hasnt.
4)Nas raps about how he is a queens thug but he wasn’t.
5)Most of the rappers rap about stuff they havent done yet you all support them and say its real rap.
6)When rick ross does it you all claim he is fake and say its fake rap.
This shows that hiphop fans are hypocritical and all these real hiphop fan wanna be’s are just some unjustified haters whose opinions are just as irrelevent as the swag fag rapper fans.
BIG GUWOP KILLED A MAN HE WAS A DRUG DEALER BEFORE RAPPER HE HAS STREET CREDENTIALS HE IS THE ONLY RAPPER THAT RAPS ABOUT FACTS THERE FORE BIG GUWOP IS THE REALEST RAPPER IN THE RAP GAME AND THATS A FACT!
WOW you sound like a douche bag hahaha… Riding gucci dick hahahaa fucking fagg! Gucci blows dick which in this case im sure you wish it was yours hahah dear god some people deserve to get a bat across the head
here we go AGAIN
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Honestly, what did you expect with a name like that?
lol too funny…its tme to make a movie about this and make the money back
damn talk about fuckin up big time lmao
Weed addiction?? some funny shit lol
weed doesn’t create physical dependency, but mentally people do somewhat become “addicted”. I have done research on weed “addiction”.
i have suffered from weed withdraws and get a lil grumpy for a fews days but then i stop coughing and have weird dreams that i can remember
This story is FULL of holes. Read this first:
“These New Yorkers havent just sat around and waited for fame to land in their lap. On the other hand, they dug their way into the industry and learned essential business skills to keep their career above the water. With their former mixtapes Back 2 Da Basiks and The Reflection, accumulating both more than 100,000 downloads; and landing sponsorships by major brands including Heavy Water Vodka, Prohibited NYC, Filter017 and Moods of Norway”
First off, who would think that 25k would propel someone to “A level stardom” in a quarter? 25k ain’t enough to make a dent in the website posting world. How much was the recording & feature costs? How much did they spend for their MERCHANDISE? 14k is spendy, but that’s why you go to SXSW if you don’t perform, TO PROMOTE YOURSELF AND MEET PEOPLE. ALL of that money can be used as a TAX write-off, a BUSINESS EXPENSE.
There’s no problem with just having one single, IF that was the agreed single to MARKET. And why wasn’t dude with the studio more into the marketing to protect his investment, aka pass it to some of your “bigger recording clients”? If they had SPONSORSHIPS, why wasn’t he getting some of his money back? He couldn’t have passed them off to Eone and got his finder’s fee and executive producer credits to get that money back?
And where is the group’s manager? No shows? TOO MANY questions to pass judgment, and saying they spent it all on weed is WEAK.
So then by your logic, there should be a counter claim coming on what they did use the money for. Accurate detailed ledgers of where every dime went. We will wait for that…Hold your breath.
Don’t worry, I knew I was posting realistic questions for a bunch of simple minded people to read, but let’s use your logic, they smoked up 130k with nothing to show for it (although they have music, merchandise, sponsors) and they took expensive trips, when it only says one.
I’ll let you all tell it.
dumb fellaz
Yup, ni@@aism at it’s best.
dam what type of weed them stupid ass motherfuckers smoking thas some dum shit wheres the whip another single shit like that how come stupid motherfuckers always get the best then fuck up oh yeah stupid motherfuckers
I’m sorry but the Jay-Z lyrics from Dead Presidents keeps popping up in my head “ni@@as will coast in the SL but can’t post bail…”
If they would have used half a brain they could have put that money to good use but they didnt. If they had got major label money these dudes would be broke in a week. Mystical is right by saying “90% business and 10% talent”. You got one damn single..ok…what about the album, copy rights, production, marketing ect, thats your damn job too!!! Basicly they blew tha doe which was to be used to get on their own feet and flip that money into $500,000 which isnt hard to do if its done right. I dont feel sorry for these fools at all, niggaz these days on that “I rap…pay me” type shit. Grind first…party later
But they have 2 mixtapes, features, merchandise, sponsorships, and went to a convention. You do know any label would put that kind of money and do the same thing for one single, right?
There’s really nothing but a bunch of morons on this site. Read one story and swear you know it all. None of you know about critical thinking? Probably not because you’ve never done anything in your life.
^^ this bitch above is one of the young fellaz catching feelings LOL
More Hits? Jay-Z- Let’s run them down….
In My Life Time
Dead Presidents
Can I Get A
Hard Knock Life
Money Cash Ho’s
Jigga My Ni$$A
Anything
Big Pimpin
I just Want To Love You
Change The game
Guily Until Proven Innocent
IZZO
Girls, Girls, Girls…
Bonnie And Clyde
Change Clothes
Excuse Me Miss
Dirt Off Your Shoulder
99 Problems
Encore
Show Me What You Got
Roc Boys
D.O.A.
Empire State Of Mind
Run This Town
H.A.M.
OTIS
Ni$$as In Paris
No Church In The Wild
Lost One’s
The Take Over
YOLO
Again who???
I had no idea Drake had kids.
How big a punani are you when you use A MONTH to cope with getting off weed? Even if you smoke more than Snoop all that is out of your system in a few days, a week tops for young “beginners”.
Using weed as an excuse for anything is WEAK
hey dr dipshit, THC is fat soluble and is NOT out of your system in days. THC is the hardest drug to remove from your body entirely.
Beenie is that black wood and the weed giving you answers, dumb it’s a load retard that mean you are require to pay it back one day, Young people stay in school, smiply because a mind a terrible thing to waste.