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Jay-Z Kool With Herc; Voodoo Issue Still Unresolved

Yesterday, a man named Clive Campbell filed a wacky $5 billion lawsuit against rap star and partial New Jersey Nets owner Jay-Z, as well as others associated with the huge Atlantic Yards construction project in downtown Brooklyn (which includes a new stadium for the Nets). The charge was that because Barclay's bought naming rights to the stadium, and was possibly involved in the slave trade way back when, everyone involved was illegally profiting from slavery. So that will be dismissed quickly. More interesting: Clive Campbell is the real name of DJ Kool Herc, the old school master widely credited as the founder of hip hop. So outlets started reporting that Kool Herc was suing Jay-Z—intergenerational hip hop madness! But then it came out that this was a different Clive Campbell [Gothamist]. Too bad, cause that would have been crazy. Now Jay-Z can turn his attention to warding off this "Voodoo Priestest"!:

[from the Myspace page of Da Black Defense League, a group that filed suit along with Campbell]

4:28 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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Colonel Mustard at 04:35 PM on 02/26/08
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That really is the priestest thing I've heard in a long time.
riskybusiness at 04:38 PM on 02/26/08
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I'm all for sticking it to whitey, but to me, that means putting a basketball arena in a neighborhood that was in the midst of being gentrified.
acridsheep at 04:49 PM on 02/26/08
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99 Problems but Kool Herc ain't one.
jake at 05:29 PM on 02/26/08
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@ Hamilton-- the Gothamist story you linked clearly states that this Clive Campbell is not DJ Kool Herc-- it's right there in the title of the post, and again in the lede.

Here's the link: [gothamist.com]

On behalf of the reporting staff of Gothamist, I demand an apology!
IronSheik at 07:13 PM on 02/26/08
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This is the God M.C. He'll beat those charges like Rocky.
Hamilton Nolan at 11:21 PM on 02/26/08
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@jake: I know Jake, I was just illustrating the reporting mix-up by linking to you guys, who reported on the reporting mix-up. Not actually accusing you of mixing things up. My apologies if it seemed mixed up.
famousauthor at 09:53 AM on 02/27/08
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Nobody's an authentic celebrity until they've been hit with a billion dollar lawsuit.
The Assimilated Negro at 02:14 AM on 02/28/08
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Mr. Nolan,

I chastised you for the weird stout/jay-z analysis, but i do appreciate you bringing something resembling a hip hop beat to gawk. it's just unfortunate that jay-z's name isn't a guaranteed 3-5K in pageview like, say, Jay-Allison. maybe mr. carter should get a tumblr.