Author Topic: C Delores Tucker still ridin in hell (Read 231 times)

Darksider · « **on:** May 14, 2007, 10:00:28 PM »

A judge recommended the revival of a lawsuit C. Delores Tucker filed against Interscope Records, Suge Knight, Death Row Record and lawyers David Kenner, Charles Ortner and Geoffrey Thomas.

Tucker, who passed away in Oct. 2005, founded the National Political Congress of Black Women. She focused on the negative lyrics of gangsta rap, most notably, releases from Death Records.

The labels sued Tucker in 1995, claiming that she was engaged in racketeering, extortion, unfair business practices, to injure the music business.

The lawsuits were eventually dropped, but Tucker filed two malicious prosecution suits, in 1998 and 1999.

Tucker's cases were eventually dismissed by The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, stating that rhymes written about Tucker by Tupac Shakur had no proof of actual malice.

Tucker's widower appealed the ruling and on Friday (May 12), a judge said that jurors should consider reopening the case, because the suits against Tucker appeared “to be an attempt to destroy” her political organization, rather than to collect damages for the original charges claimed in the original lawsuits.

According to Los Angeles' Metropolitan News, Lawyers for Interscope countered and urged the judges not to be influenced by their views of gangsta rap.

They alleged that Tucker admitted to instigating an FBI investigation into the world of gangsta rap, while at the same time working with former Compton Mayor Omar Bradley to encourage Death Row to end its relationship with Interscope and participate in a black-owned Hip-Hop distribution company.

In related news, rapper Suge Knight is shooting a reality series titled Unfinished Business in Compton, CA. According to reports, the reality series will follow the record mogul as he exits the music business for a time, to focus on acting and/or coaching football

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