Pleasure a former member of the R&B Pretty Ricky is suing the group and it’s managing staff for back pay and release from his contract.Here is the official complaint filed on behalf of the singer’s by attorneys Robert Meloni and Steve Schwartz.MTV.com reports:
In the complaint, Pleasure (real name: Marcus Cooper), alleges a number of wrongdoings against Joseph “Blue” Smith — Baby Blue and Spectacular’s dad and the head of Bluestar Entertainment, the company Pretty Ricky is signed to in a deal with Atlantic Records. The group’s management and booking company, International Artist Agency, is also named in the suit.
According to Pleasure, Smith deceived the singer by first acting as a surrogate father to him and also serving in roles that were conflicts of interest for Pleasure and the group, including acting as a personal manager, business manager, booking agent, record exec and music publisher. The suit alleges that Smith “exploited conflict of interests in the competing roles he occupied in Cooper’s life.”
International Artist Agency, headed by Stephen Brush, is alleged to have abetted a number of Smith’s practices, according to the complaint.
Pleasure, according to the information filed earlier this week, is seeking a release from his contract with Bluestar and back pay owed to him. The suit claims that the former Pretty Ricky star has not been properly compensated for his contributions to the group, whose two albums have both been certified gold, pushing more than 500, 000 copies each.
The suit also alleges that Smith used physical intimidation. According to the complaint, when Pleasure began to distance himself from the group and sought out the friendship of others, in one instance, Smith attacked a friend of the singer’s as a means of coercion.
Seeing that musical groups always break up,artists should simply have solo careers.
yeah and no i mean all my life listening to pretty ricky when i first started listening rapping to hip-hop they all way gave me a bost from day one.Yes things will happen it’s life but to them it just don’t feel right i will stand by all of them til i die i know they will make tha right jugement i would love to speak to them or them to right to me or get some tips on singing or rapping thanks fo leting me have my say fo life pretty ricky
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THIS IS SOME BULL I LOVE THEM AND WITHOUT THEM ITS NOT GOING TO BE RIGHT THEY REALLY NEED TO STOP BECAUSE YOU ARE GOOD TOGERTH I LOVE ALL OF U
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I THINK PLESURE IS DOING THE RIGHT THING, FOR HIS SELF AND MAKING A GOOD SOLO FOR HIM. PLESURE GOOD JOB BROTHER.
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