Comments on: Financial Turmoil

By: sometimes

sometimes — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:26:10 +0000

Including Jeter, that’s 6 black people on the list.

Why do they have to go and ruin it. Pay your taxes, the rest of us have to. What the hell.

Interesting about Crouch, old crusty running his mouth about everyone else.

By: DANA

DANA — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:13:50 +0000

how stupid can one be? did he really think that his debt to the city would just dissappear? lol! he should have paid them off with his severence package from rockawear!

By: jazzyphile

jazzyphile — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:51:01 +0000

@gymo

Not that it’s important since they’re both multi-millionaires and icons. I bet you won’t find high school diplomas in the Jay-Z and MJB households, just to mention a few.

I never said all rappers–you knuckle head!

By: gymo

gymo — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:56:59 +0000

There are stats that show that 60% of all startup business fail/go bankrupt each year, and as such being a Rapper is considered a business, being that you work for yourself and you become an employer, so Rap is no different than other U.S. business failure rate statistic.

Taxes: If you owe $10 -to- $30,000 in taxes you are hounded to pay it.

If you owe two million dollars, with attorney fees included with IRS deal, you end up paying just over one million dollars, so either way Dame is ok.

By: gymo

gymo — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:39:10 +0000

@Jazzyphile,

Not all Rappers didn’t graduate from High School, in fact most Rappers did graduate from High School, but didn’t go to College.

Yet there are many who did some College and even some who graduated, but in order to maintain street rep they keep that on the D/L.

Just like Kanye West / Diddy and a few other.

Don’t say stupid things until you have the stats to back it up.

By: Starr

Starr — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:28:06 +0000

Interesting about BEN VEREEN…..he has started a “church” out here in LA. I was kind of tricked into going, because I am a believer in Jesus Christ and the church that he “preaches” at is a “scientology” church. So it looks like he is running from his taxes and collecting on these LA people’s. Damn shame. Glad I didn’t give them any money that day.

By: erks

erks — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:05:26 +0000

do you know that there is no law saying that you have to pay your taxes???

By: persona

persona — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:01:52 +0000

He had a baby while him and Aaliyah were together. In other words, he got with Aaliyah right after the birth of his kid. I remember not reading about the kid until he was with Aaliyah.

By: Lou Game

Lou Game — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:10:38 +0000

@ It’smesuprise

Yeah, that was cold for listing JMJ like that! Let that man rest in peace!

By: Josephine

Josephine — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:35:44 +0000

Ma Dorothy goes to bat for Derek Jeter

BY MIKE JACCARINO and TRACY CONNOR

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Saturday, November 17th 2007, 4:00 AM

Derek Jeter’s mother, Dorothy, scolds a reporter outside her New Jersey home, saying: ‘My boy does everything right.’ Albans/News

Derek Jeter’s mother, Dorothy, scolds a reporter outside her New Jersey home, saying: ‘My boy does everything right.’

Derek Jeter says he resided in New York from 2001 to 2003. Antonelli/News

Derek Jeter says he resided in New York from 2001 to 2003.

Don’t you dare call my son a tax cheat!

Derek Jeter’s mother defended him Friday amid allegations he sidestepped state taxes by declaring Florida his home state when he really lives in New York.

“He pays his taxes,” Dorothy Jeter told the Daily News.

“My boy does everything right – everything right,” she said at her New Jersey home. “He’s paid taxes in New York for every doggone day he’s been there.”