rolling #metoo thread for sexual harassment in the music industry so no one misses out when artists we don't give a fuck about like Tim Westwood and Bassnectar get caught

Thanks, Roz! I was curious.

Lotta dirtbags must be super nervous today, just hoping to make it to Monday.

https://www.stereogum.com/2243561/anti-flag-frontman-justin-sane-sued-for-sexual-assault/news/

Diddy accused of rape, drugging and revenge porn in yet another lawsuit.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/sean-diddy-combs-gang-rape-lawsuit-1235824467/amp/

50 Cent has a documentary in the works:

🚨 G-Unit Film & Television proceeds from this Documentary will go to victims of Sexual Assault and Rape ! pic.twitter.com/nNqdFKHACp

— 50cent (@50cent) December 7, 2023

uh yeah I don't trust 50 to handle any of this stuff in the right way, number one he's at troll and this is just his way of getting back at diddy and (especially rick ross), he's also a really virulent homophobe to this day (touching on some stuff deej was saying upthread)...i mean if incriminating stuff comes out on diddy and is exposed that's a good thing, but this will be trashy DJ vlad type stuff for sure.

"Go-Go’s Guitarist Jane Wiedlin Claims Influential Rock DJ Sexually Abused Her as a Teen. Six women now accuse famed former KROQ DJ and club owner Rodney Bingenheimer of molesting them when they were underage"

.. but you gotta subscribe!

I doubt anyone will be too surprised with the revelations tbh.

the Rodney stuff will be endless

Birds of a feather...

https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/rodney-jimmy-page-english-disco.jpg?w=1024

Tommy Lee! In a helicopter! Will this open the floodgates for every other bunch of 80s glam metal dunces to be accused of moral impropriety?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/18/motley-crue-drummer-tommy-lee-accused-of-sexual-assault

they better start building more courthouses

that reminds me that the concept of "girls! girls! girls!" -- the lumping of female people into an indistinct mass that didn't end in the 80s -- is at the top of my enemy list. i am still upset about Jane Wiedlin. It fucking sucks to know that all the people i was supposed to look up to were molested and abused.

One indirect positive result of the Rodney Bingenheimer news: It reminded me how much I enjoyed Jane Wiedlin's contribution to the L.A. punk oral history book, which in turn led me to purchase Kid Congo Powers's memoir (on audiobook), which I am loving.

Jane Wiedlin is amazing. She is super-talented, bold, funny, inconceivably cute and long before her time. To think that someone would look at her, an amazing and unique person, as nothing more than something to hump makes me see red.

this is one of the great 80s pop songs imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlRWUgID8Jw

"Rush Hour" goes

oooh it sends meeee

she was an amazing Joan of Arc too

Rush Hour is perfection

omg I love that dolphin video

Which is the 'LA punk oral history book' please?

probably We Got the Neutron Bomb (?)

She also had an essay in John Doe's Under The Big Black Sun: A Personal History of LA Punk IIRC

Yes I was referring to Under the Big Black Sun. I guess "oral history" was not the right word for it, but she (like most of the authors) reads her section for the audiobook, which is great.

Excellent, thanks.

https://pitchfork.com/news/jermaine-jackson-sued-for-alleged-1988-sexual-assault/

Paula Abdul accuses former ‘American Idol’ producer Nigel Lythgoe of sexual assault

!

https://www.stereogum.com/2246632/t-i-and-tiny-harris-sued-for-sexual-assault-battery/news/

Man accused of kidnapping woman, holding her against will for 4-5 years at SE Houston home

The man in question is apparently the rapper Viper, probably best known for his album You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA9J6lgoI-Q

That account is run by his UK-based label, and the top comment says:

i had no idea this was happening until like an hour ago, this shit is fucking crazy
ill probably make like one longform video about all my experiences with the guy and then leave this shit dormant
stuff is still on the site if you want it, i think ill try and donate some of this stuff to the victim
outsider records will probably stop there
cutting contact obviously
thanks for all of your support over the years it means a lot :) - kettle

there's a vaporwave dude called Nmesh who once did a collaboration with Viper - or more accurately he paid him $50 to do a few verses and produced a track around it. it sounded awesome, he clearly put a lot of effort into it (Nmesh not Viper), and then at the last moment pulled it because apparently he started doing research on the guy and was just like "uhhh this guy is a really bad person, I'm not putting my name next to his"

hmmm I'm also starting to remember some Redditors trying to catfish him as an underage girl and finding out it was way way too easy

The fanbase around him was always weird and fucked up fetishization bullshit

viper has always been a huge piece of shit. i remember c. 2016 friends of mine who had interacted with him personally telling me horrid things. but clearly now he's a lot worse than merely a huge piece of shit.

Look, you have to separate the art that was exclusively consumed by racist 4chan teens from the artist who kidnaps people

I do have a friend who does not fall into that category who is heartbroken by this. I'd say Viper's reach is zoomer rymers in general (probably not worth taking a look there atm).

there is something genuinely weird and suspicious about this dude's "career", like none of the stuff on the RapperViperVEVO channel I think is actually made by him, I've always thought someone just cracked his YouTube and Spotify accounts and uploaded a ton of shit without him actually knowing about it. I mean if you ever hear him talk or read an interview with him he is def not all there

yeah i've never got a handle on it either. the way he's clearly rapping on screen but you can't hear anything. one of my friends who ostensibly collaborated with him on a few occasions i'm pretty sure was no nearer the truth.

think i stopped enjoying the viper joke when (iirc) he abandoned his family during a hurricane. again 2016 or so.

I do have a friend who does not fall into that category who is heartbroken by this. I'd say Viper's reach is zoomer rymers in general (probably not worth taking a look there atm).

well i guess i literally count as one. though i hardly have much time for rym's 'community' (i mean i'm here right)

always wondered what the fans of this guy were actually fans of, I mean clearly none of the stuff he's done in the last 10 years (or longer?) is actually made by him, and if you do any research at all into him you will find out that he is clearly insane and a sex predator, idk maybe that's where the intrigue is, like it is kinda funny/interesting that nobody can figure out how his early stuff was made because Viper himself can't really say

probably mostly him having been (somehow) an inexhaustible meme - the youtube channel extends on it massively - peppered, or 'validated', by secondary appreciation of the hazy push-button cloud rap thing. i've seen people talk about the early music as if it was somehow quite radical. and it isn't?? but i guess in light of lil b, study beats and so on coming later i can guess why someone might assume that idk.

*frogsb spending three hours browsing a /mu/ page where they use words like "dindu" and "goyslop"*

"always wondered what the fans of this guy were actually fans of"

what do those words mean Whiney I've never heard them before