Fox News - Current and former residents at a luxury building in Philadelphia partly owned by hip-hop star Jay-Z say the music mogul's legal team has been relentlessly harassing them to leave until they give up and vacate the premises, FoxNews.com has learned. "I'm scared of Jay-Z," says a tenant of 603 North American Street, who because of what she claims are safety fears does not want to be named. "I've endured endless harassment from his team of lawyers, and I can't take it anymore. I don't know when this drama is going to end." “They filed a lawsuit against me knowing that I had paid the rent. The lawyer admitted it to me, yet they still filed the lawsuit against me,” says Tedeschi. “It’s total and utter harassment. They’re filing frivolous lawsuits. “If the owner of a building is trying to evict renters, the first thing that comes to mind is that they want to sell those units,” Atacan tells FoxNews.com. “It’s an investment decision. It sounds like the owner wants to liquidate the property–he wants to cash out.
No wonder Jay-Z’s rap career has sucked for the past decade. His motivation went from supporting himself by slanging dope to evicting his tenants from upscale apartment buildings in order to condo-size the place. And it's not just that he's diversified his game and now owns condos and apartment buildings, its just that the old Jay would have send thugs, kids with no futures, with bats and gats to harass these people. Corporate Jay sends lawyers and process servers. Not exactly your typical rap material.
There just comes a point in time when you can’t be a rapper anymore, just can’t do it. Like I don’t want to hear about your glamorous life with your supermodel/singer girlfriend and her new baby bump, don’t want to hear it. That aint rap, that’s being domesticated. Sorry HOV, your time has passed, quit pretending you feel comfortable in skinny jeans and Airforce 1’s and get back to wearing multiple thousand dollar tailored suits and shilling over priced vodka. It’s what you’re good at now.
