"In late 96'..Wyclef pockets were deep..and HAITIAN JACK had both his hands in them"

[MalikX]

oh god...you are humorous my friend......and so flawed in your logic

not only it's erroneous ...it's RACIST ....... (i'll explain that later)

you think RAPPERS are the only ones associating with DEALERS and KILLERS????

Alot of your "respectable" entertainers hob nob frequently with gangstas.....

It was Gladys Knight whom took the stand in Henchmen's first trial in los angelas as his good character witness

newsflash my friend..i personally know a gospel singer down in South Carolina whom i won't be surpised if she is found lying face down floating in some River , because she keeps playing these dirty "switch and bait" games with producers and promoters ...most of whom are real street cats

its only a matter of time my friend.....

speaking of gospel .....

just recently....Tyler Perry's former "sponsor" just revealed himself to the world....he was a certified street kingpin from Atlanta whom has pulled out numerous reciepts as to how he financed Tyler Perry's first projects and basically kept him from being homeless as a struggling screenplay writer.....

see what u fail to realize dawg...is that the MUSIC INDUSTRY itself was originated by GANGSTERS, MOBSTERS...and BOOTLEGGERS like the Warner Brothers and the Brofman family.....

the reason being.....it's always been FREE OF REGULATION or OVERSIGHT from the government and it's mostly CASH BASED....A good sancturary for those whom seek revenue "under the table"...

even the "ACTING GAME" in Hollywood was and still is on some GANGSTA SHYT....black actors and actresses not only had to deal with racisim and lack of work but even if they joined the(union) S.A.G (screen actors guild) it wasn't enough to counteract the "mob style" practices of the Motion Pictures Association (oscars, the academy)...


"As everyone knows except for the people watching, the Motion Picture Academy was founded as a union-busting front for a company union. It was the brain child of MGM’s Louis B. Mayer, a devout Republican, as a way of heading off Hollywood workers’ wage and contract demands. The Academy, after the Wall Street ’29 crash, fully backed Mayer and his fellow studio bosses’ across-the-board 50 percent wage cuts for employees while still paying themselves huge bonuses.

The Academy’s history is bloody, battered and bestrewn with labor struggles, corrupt practices, bribery, extortion, Mafia-style hit jobs and failed last-ditch efforts by its executives to break the fledgling actors, writers and other guilds. (In current negotiations my own writers union, WGA, is facing $60 million in rollbacks from the producers with their institutional memory of fighting unions even when they're rolling in profits.)

From the start the Academy and studios’ deal was to buy labor peace by installing a then-wholly-crooked bunch, IATSE, the union of stagehands, motion picture technicans and allied crafts, and pay off its gangster leaders (usually $50 to 100,000 annually per studio), to intimidate, beat up and sometimes kill militants. " The Oscars' Dirty Secret: Corruption, Bribery, Mafia-style Hit Jobs and Labor Struggles







And you wonder why Denzel Washington linked up with suge knight's O.G Harry O??

Oprah Winfrey admitted to consorting with all types of dope dealers during her early part of her career as a broadcast journalist to feed her addiction to cocaine.....

When legendary OG Crip Uncle Zip opened up his last establishment "ZIP CODES" in harlem back in the early 2000s

the grand opening was like a who's who of the world of black entertainment....everybody from Mike Tyson to Stevie Wonder arrived to show love to one of the last true NYC street lords.






Make no mistake..my friend...anybody can get it....even fat sloppy and sick former box office stars like Steven Segal had to run to the Feds to get the Gotti's and the Gambino family off of his azz...

Steven Seagal: Muscled By The Mob

Yeah the infamous Gambino Family....the EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EXTORTERS....

they ate good off of Sammy Davis and the Rat pack....

And please don't think this "type of behavior" is just limited to Americans.....

and let's not forget mr. "ONE LOVE" everything irie man BOB MARLEY who was caught in a Gangstafied tug of war between the two biggestcrimindal syndicates of Jamaica...the Spanglers crew and the Shower Posse

shyt got soooo real for Bob that his wife even caught a bullet when "gunmen" allegedly from the Shower Posse ranks invaded his home one evening in an attempt to "silence" him forever for trying to broker a peace treaty between both parties....

Bucky Marshall...Bob Marley...Clause Massop...

^^^^^^^^^this picture is significant cause it showed how "deep" Bob Marley got in this deadly mix of politics...murder and drugs....

Bucky Marshall was a welll respected and feared gunmen for the Spangler Crew which was enforcers for the PNP political party...

and Claudie Massop was a "Don" (leader) from the Tivoli garden community home of the Shower Posse...

both of those individuals seated next to Bob died Violently....at the hands of assasins..

"dem a kill Bucky Marshall up inna New Yawk City...dem a kill Claddie Massop down inna Tivoli!" - Brigadier Jerry

Even the Don Dada himself Supercat couldn't set foot back inna Jamaica a couple of years ago without having the "boss" Kenneth Black aka Skeng Don escort him thru the city of Kingston...

so yes my friend...it's DEEPER THAN "RAP"

You shouldn't have wasted all your time doing this.....everyone you posted is affiliated with the entertainment industry in some way, shape or fashion.

I used Tyler Perry and Oprah because their images are clean now but, they're still in entertainment so they're an arms length away from those guys. But even then, they only got mixed up in that world because they sought out drugs (Oprah) or sought out money from loan sharks (Tyler). People in that sort of lifestyle don't USUALLY get mixed up with people like Oprah or Tyler Perry because they don't run in the same circles. At all.

Point blank....and this was where I was really getting at with my comment....Jimmy Henchman aint running up in Goldman Sachs or Bridgewater Associates blackmailing anybody there. Haitian Jack aint running up in Google or Snapchat talking about pay me money to protect yall or else. nikkas would make one phone call to "someone to handle it" and they'd be in prison or worse Snakes like that can only exist in the rap world because the lines are so blurred between the streets and the music industry.

 

[imirza]

oh god...you are humorous my friend......and so flawed in your logic

not only it's erroneous ...it's RACIST ....... (i'll explain that later)

you think RAPPERS are the only ones associating with DEALERS and KILLERS????

Alot of your "respectable" entertainers hob nob frequently with gangstas.....

It was Gladys Knight whom took the stand in Henchmen's first trial in los angelas as his good character witness

newsflash my friend..i personally know a gospel singer down in South Carolina whom i won't be surpised if she is found lying face down floating in some River , because she keeps playing these dirty "switch and bait" games with producers and promoters ...most of whom are real street cats

its only a matter of time my friend.....

speaking of gospel .....

just recently....Tyler Perry's former "sponsor" just revealed himself to the world....he was a certified street kingpin from Atlanta whom has pulled out numerous reciepts as to how he financed Tyler Perry's first projects and basically kept him from being homeless as a struggling screenplay writer.....

see what u fail to realize dawg...is that the MUSIC INDUSTRY itself was originated by GANGSTERS, MOBSTERS...and BOOTLEGGERS like the Warner Brothers and the Brofman family.....

the reason being.....it's always been FREE OF REGULATION or OVERSIGHT from the government and it's mostly CASH BASED....A good sancturary for those whom seek revenue "under the table"...

even the "ACTING GAME" in Hollywood was and still is on some GANGSTA SHYT....black actors and actresses not only had to deal with racisim and lack of work but even if they joined the(union) S.A.G (screen actors guild) it wasn't enough to counteract the "mob style" practices of the Motion Pictures Association (oscars, the academy)...


"As everyone knows except for the people watching, the Motion Picture Academy was founded as a union-busting front for a company union. It was the brain child of MGM’s Louis B. Mayer, a devout Republican, as a way of heading off Hollywood workers’ wage and contract demands. The Academy, after the Wall Street ’29 crash, fully backed Mayer and his fellow studio bosses’ across-the-board 50 percent wage cuts for employees while still paying themselves huge bonuses.

The Academy’s history is bloody, battered and bestrewn with labor struggles, corrupt practices, bribery, extortion, Mafia-style hit jobs and failed last-ditch efforts by its executives to break the fledgling actors, writers and other guilds. (In current negotiations my own writers union, WGA, is facing $60 million in rollbacks from the producers with their institutional memory of fighting unions even when they're rolling in profits.)

From the start the Academy and studios’ deal was to buy labor peace by installing a then-wholly-crooked bunch, IATSE, the union of stagehands, motion picture technicans and allied crafts, and pay off its gangster leaders (usually $50 to 100,000 annually per studio), to intimidate, beat up and sometimes kill militants. " The Oscars' Dirty Secret: Corruption, Bribery, Mafia-style Hit Jobs and Labor Struggles







And you wonder why Denzel Washington linked up with suge knight's O.G Harry O??

Oprah Winfrey admitted to consorting with all types of dope dealers during her early part of her career as a broadcast journalist to feed her addiction to cocaine.....

When legendary OG Crip Uncle Zip opened up his last establishment "ZIP CODES" in harlem back in the early 2000s

the grand opening was like a who's who of the world of black entertainment....everybody from Mike Tyson to Stevie Wonder arrived to show love to one of the last true NYC street lords.






Make no mistake..my friend...anybody can get it....even fat sloppy and sick former box office stars like Steven Segal had to run to the Feds to get the Gotti's and the Gambino family off of his azz...

Steven Seagal: Muscled By The Mob

Yeah the infamous Gambino Family....the EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EXTORTERS....

they ate good off of Sammy Davis and the Rat pack....

And please don't think this "type of behavior" is just limited to Americans.....

and let's not forget mr. "ONE LOVE" everything irie man BOB MARLEY who was caught in a Gangstafied tug of war between the two biggestcrimindal syndicates of Jamaica...the Spanglers crew and the Shower Posse

shyt got soooo real for Bob that his wife even caught a bullet when "gunmen" allegedly from the Shower Posse ranks invaded his home one evening in an attempt to "silence" him forever for trying to broker a peace treaty between both parties....

Bucky Marshall...Bob Marley...Clause Massop...

^^^^^^^^^this picture is significant cause it showed how "deep" Bob Marley got in this deadly mix of politics...murder and drugs....

Bucky Marshall was a welll respected and feared gunmen for the Spangler Crew which was enforcers for the PNP political party...

and Claudie Massop was a "Don" (leader) from the Tivoli garden community home of the Shower Posse...

both of those individuals seated next to Bob died Violently....at the hands of assasins..

"dem a kill Bucky Marshall up inna New Yawk City...dem a kill Claddie Massop down inna Tivoli!" - Brigadier Jerry

Even the Don Dada himself Supercat couldn't set foot back inna Jamaica a couple of years ago without having the "boss" Kenneth Black aka Skeng Don escort him thru the city of Kingston...

so yes my friend...it's DEEPER THAN "RAP"

and it's not just simply characteristic of BLACKS....

because all an extorter see as far as COLOR...is GREEN

CLASSIC POST

 

[Young/Nacho\Drawz]

Yall are crazy saying rock bands get extorted. Picture Led Zeppelin getting leaned on back in the 70's lol yeah right

Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The Shondells

"Tommy James's story is one of the most interesting of any of the 1960s rockers. . . . His story reads like a music-industry version of 'Goodfellas.'"-- Denver Post

“A boisterous memoir . . . It’s high time that [Tommy James] had a book to himself.”

—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Tommy James' rock & roll education cost him millions, but at least we got this entertaining memoir."-- Rolling Stone

"This is one helluva story."--Howard Stern
Product Description

Now in paperback, after five hardcover printings, Tommy James’s wild and entertaining true story of his career—part rock & roll fairytale, part valentine to a bygone era, and part mob epic—that “reads like a music-industry version of Goodfellas” ( The Denver Post).

Everyone knows the hits: “Hanky Panky,” “Mony Mony,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” All of these songs, which epitomize great pop music of the late 1960s, are now widely used in television and film and have been covered by a diverse group of artists from Billy Idol to Tiffany to R.E.M. Just as compelling as the music itself is the life Tommy James lived while making it.

James tells the incredible story, revealing his complex and sometimes terrifying relationship with Roulette Records and Morris Levy, the legendary Godfather of the music business. Me, the Mob, and the Music is a fascinating portrait of this swaggering, wildly creative era of rock ’n’ roll, when the hits kept coming and payola and the strong-arm tactics of the Mob were the norm, and what it was like, for better or worse, to be in the middle of it.
About the Author

Tommy James (born Thomas Gregory Jackson, April 29, 1947, Dayton, Ohio) is the pop-rock star best known as the leader of Tommy James and the Shondells. Performing locally in Niles, Michigan, from the age of 12, James went on to record many top hits, including "Hanky Panky," "I Think We're Alone Now," "Mony Mony," "Crimson and Clover," "Sweet Cherry Wine," "Mirage," "Do Something to Me," "Gettin’ Together," "Crystal Blue Persuasion," and "Draggin' the Line." He has sold over 100 million records, has been awarded twenty-three gold singles, and nine gold and platinum albums. His songs are widely used in television and film, and have been covered by Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Tiffany, Tom Jones, Prince, and R.E.M. Tommy James continues to tour the country and record.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

PROLOGUE

May 21, 1990.

The day began with me rushing off to Chicago to do a concert promoting the release of my new album Hi-Fi and the single “Go.” It was my first studio album in nearly ten years. I was to meet Ron Alexenburg, the head of Aegis Records, and my manager, Carol Ross, at Newark Airport to catch a flight to Chicago. The band had already gone ahead, and we were all pretty excited about starting the nineties off with a new project. A host of radio stations and press were going to be there. Because Chicago had launched so many of our past successes, it seemed the perfect city to begin our tour. As my wife, Lynda, and I were about to leave, the phone suddenly rang. I was in a rush and kind of annoyed when I answered. It was my accountant, Howard Comart. In a very subdued voice he said, “Morris is asking for you. If you want to see him you’d better get up here right away.”

“Oh my God, Howard, I’m dashing out the door to do a show in Chicago. I’ll be back first thing tomorrow morning and I’ll come right up.” There was a pause. Howard said, “Well, okay.” But there was a tremor in his voice. I gave him my hotel number in Chicago and told him to keep me posted.

When I got to the airport, I told Ron and Carol the situation, and it cast a shadow over our otherwise joyful morning. The Godfather of the music business, Morris Levy, was dying of cancer. We all had a feeling of disbelief because none of us had ever thought of Morris as anything but invincible. In his sixty-two years, he had created and controlled one of the biggest independent music publishing companies; managed and was partners with the most famous rock and roll disc jockey, Alan Freed; owned the most famous jazz club in history, Birdland; and owned one of the most successful independent record labels of the fifties and sixties, Roulette Records, which also was my record label for eight years.

Morris and I had been exchanging messages through Howard, our mutual accountant, for several weeks, almost like two kids passing notes back and forth in school. I knew he understood how saddened I was by the whole thing and that despite everything, I genuinely cared about him.

When we got off the plane at O’Hare, I was suddenly filled with the old excitement; a sold-out show, in Chicago, to promote a new record. It felt good to feel this again twenty-four years after first signing with Morris and Roulette. Our road manager met us at baggage claim, a limo was waiting outside, and we loaded up and headed for the hotel. The rest of the day went pretty smoothly, the sound check and all the backstage stuff. But all I kept thinking about was Morris. Lynda kept checking our messages at the hotel hourly.

The show went great; the audience went crazy, dancing in the aisles, standing on their seats screaming for more. We played a combination of the hits and the new stuff, but even on stage I was preoccupied. We ended the show with “Mony Mony,” like we had done ten thousand times, and did the usual encore. Like always I was hot, sweaty, and out of breath when I came off stage. Carol and Ron met me by the stage door and we all walked back to the dressing room. I had an interview to do with a young radio guy from a local pop station. There was a lot of whooping and hollering around me as I sat down to catch my breath in front of the dressing room mirror. The DJ started asking me questions and I could see the cassette player rolling. The interview had begun. I started off with how great it was to be back in Chicago, then Lynda suddenly came into the room holding a piece of paper. She said, “I’m sorry to interrupt, Tommy, but Morris Levy died.”

There was just silence. All day long I had been thinking about what I was going to say to him, and now I’d never get the chance. I’d heard stories of how emaciated he had become and had imagined what I would feel seeing him like that, but it didn’t matter now because I would never see him again.

At that point my interviewer said, “Excuse me, Tommy, can I ask you a question?” I nodded and he said, “Who is Morris Levy?”

Wow, who is Morris Levy? I looked at him in astonishment and realized this kid couldn’t be more than twenty-one or twenty-two years old.

“How much time do we have?”

“As much time as you want. I came for an in-depth interview.”

“Well, you’re going to get one. Is that tape recorder still running?”

© 2010 Tommy James

 

[African Peasant]

The WHOLE entertainment industry is filled with criminals doing criminal activities.

Entertainment industry is like the night scene. Ain't no such thing as a clean night club/spot.

If you step your foot in that environment, you're going to deal with wolves, in a form or another.

 

[mson]

I still don't understand king tut's involvement in this whole beef

He said he didn't have anything to do with it.

@The HONORABLE SKJ didn't Jimmy manage Tyson?

Shortly. He negotiated the Lennox Lewis fight

I'm not going into all of that, but I do know the next day I found out who did it, no names just eny!

Pac knows what he's talking about.

Tyson warned him

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

never seen this photo before....amazing find @mson

mike surrounded himself with Killers and Dealers...damn...demancio...hommo...haitian jack..convertible burt....uncle zip...

 

[mson]

never seen this photo before....amazing find @mson

mike surrounded himself with Killers and Dealers...damn...demancio...hommo...haitian jack..convertible burt....uncle zip...

He knew Yammy, Jesus, 50 cent, Barkim. The list goes on and on. Game is the game

 

[brick james]

You shouldn't have wasted all your time doing this.....everyone you posted is affiliated with the entertainment industry in some way, shape or fashion.

I used Tyler Perry and Oprah because their images are clean now but, they're still in entertainment so they're an arms length away from those guys. But even then, they only got mixed up in that world because they sought out drugs (Oprah) or sought out money from loan sharks (Tyler). People in that sort of lifestyle don't USUALLY get mixed up with people like Oprah or Tyler Perry because they don't run in the same circles. At all.

Point blank....and this was where I was really getting at with my comment....Jimmy Henchman aint running up in Goldman Sachs or Bridgewater Associates blackmailing anybody there. Haitian Jack aint running up in Google or Snapchat talking about pay me money to protect yall or else. nikkas would make one phone call to "someone to handle it" and they'd be in prison or worse Snakes like that can only exist in the rap world because the lines are so blurred between the streets and the music industry.

Breh, you are comparing individuals to major multi national corporations. High level employees at these corporations are still game for extortion, whether it be because they are on the DL, addicted to drugs, or whatever they are trying to hide from their family. Furthermore, don't get it twisted, outside of the US these companies are definitely getting extorted, and its simply passed on as the cost of doing business.

 

[jackson35]

the funny thing is, that most of these guys were not the big cheese that people had to deal with. nobody is scared of lyor cohen or tommy mottola

 

[Big Boss]

The WHOLE entertainment industry is filled with criminals doing criminal activities.

Entertainment industry is like the night scene. Ain't no such thing as a clean night club/spot.

If you step your foot in that environment, you're going to deal with wolves, in a form or another.

Facts

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

It amazes me how some people can amass so much power and influence...what am i doing with my life

 

[DaHNIC82]

You are very naive and uninformed my friend

Crazy how Ye started to decline heavily since firing him
Rock and Roll artists were EASY LICKS for the MOB during the 50s...60s and 70s

Morris Levy extorted everybody from session musicians to John Lennon and the Beatles while he was snatching up publishing and pushing heroin at the same damn time

And how could you forget big bad Tommy Mottola the mafia affiliated head of CBS/SONY Music whom Hall & Oates tried to warn Michael Jackson about how Tommy terrorized them when he managed them....him and Bruce Springsteen formed a bond cause he "protected" Bruce from the Philly mob

oh and let's not ignore the "work" Irving Azoff aka The Evil Leprechaun put in....for decades as head of MCA RECORDS and TICKET MASTER and one of the most powerful managers in the music game

He was the subject of a major extortion/payola probe that involved the Gambino family and Al Sharpton and The Jacksons o

Irv still putting in work...he is known as Uncle Irv to the Kardashians whom introduced Kanye West to him....Kanye eventually had to fire Irv for his exploitive role as head of merchandising for Kanyes tour

So trust me MANY ROCK BANDS Were FOOD to the mob

 

[DaHNIC82]

How many killas are that list

But according to the coli Hes p*ssy

 

[The Gimp]

Breh I said led zeppelin or pink Floyd. You show me some dude no one ever heard of.

 

[Young/Nacho\Drawz]

Breh I said led zeppelin or pink Floyd. You show me some dude no one ever heard of.

First review on that page.
"A very enjoyable look inside the NYC mob run record industry under the notorious leadership of Morris Levy. James was a young, naive, star struck kid from the Midwest who loved making music. Getting paid was (at best) an after thought. And that explains why Levy liked him. Otherwise, he would either be dead, or seriously maimed and definitely financially destitute. Many other singers and song writers who demanded payment were less fortunate. Some of the names are famous, others not so much. TJ's autobiographical account is both frightening and hilarious. Music industry insiders will love this read because they know it is accurate. Everyone else will be shocked. The HBO tv series "Vinyl" captures the zeitgeist of this book. Tommy survived the corruption and madness. Glad he did."