January 13, 2006

The Source, Finally, Dumping Mays and Benzino?

I'll never understand why it took so long for the Graves fam to make this move. Hopefully it's not to late to salvage this once-proud institution.

How sad and funny to watch them going out Comical Ali style, defiant and deluded to the bitter end.

Source Duo Dodge Ouster By Board
David Mays, founder of the embattled hip-hop magazine The Source, and his longtime president Ray "Benzino" Scott dodged a bullet from a new board of directors seeking to oust the duo.
Yesterday, the Source board, now controlled by executives friendly to the Graves family that owns Black Enterprise magazine, had hoped to boot Mays and Scott. They both obtained a restraining order from a judge in New Jersey to temporarily derail the ouster.

"The board has decided that this was the only feasible course of action as Mays and Scott could not continue their series of financial recklessness and negligence," the suit said.

It had given the duo 48 hours to turn up at a special board meeting yesterday afternoon that was expected to ratify the ouster.

"They can want to do that all they want, but it's not happening," said a still defiant Mays yesterday. The whereabouts of his partner Scott, he said, was "top secret."

The board said it felt that continuation of Mays and Scott in their jobs "hurts not only the employees of The Source, but all of its investors, vendors, subscribers and readers."

David Finkler, a lawyer for Mays and Scott, said that as far as his clients were concerned, "there is no new board."

(via nah right)

Posted by jsmooth995 at January 13, 2006 4:38 PM

Comments

First!

Damn. Damn damn damn damn damn....how the mighty have fallen.

What will become of "the sauce" now? Where will we get our 4 page "Almighty RSO" features? Where will we get our stream of hateful rambling from Ben-Zero?

I could say "about time"...but my question is this..what will Mays and Benzino do now?

Posted by: Spliff Huxtable at January 13, 2006 4:54 PM

benzino can suck a cock that faggot. fuck outta here w/ that source shit. phony ass execs.... its time for the real movement to operate like we supposed to..

AK
fuckyou.com

Posted by: AK at January 13, 2006 5:39 PM

I wouldn't get hopes us. The Source will probably continue to suck, with or without Zino et al.

Posted by: i'm the skwidawd at January 13, 2006 6:15 PM

I appreciate your passion, but chill with the "faggot" stuff please, AK.

Posted by: Jay Smooth at January 13, 2006 6:26 PM

Damn, does that mean Benzino can't claim his pension next year?? Well at least his social securr-ity check will start coming in a second.

Posted by: P-Matik at January 13, 2006 7:23 PM

Jay, I'm not convinced a polite request is going to convince AK to chill with the "faggot" stuff. A guy like that really needs the homophobia fucked out of him, because he's not likely to really get it until he understands for himself how good it feels to take a big cock up the ass. So it's with all sincerity and the best of intentions that I hope the day comes for him soon when he takes 6" or more straight up the bum. The sooner he understands that cocksucking is something to be discussed with reverence, rather than revulsion, the happier he'll be.

Posted by: asmile at January 14, 2006 3:07 PM

It's about time action was taken to get rid of those two. The sooner they leave the sooner the magazine can get better.
How unfortunate that they don't care about the magazine enough to step back. They are just egomaniacal, greedy and bitter men who used a once-great publication to wage war on their personal enemies.

Posted by: Jes at January 16, 2006 1:46 PM

and the source saga continues...someone really should do a documentary on this...maybe that guy that did tupac and biggie. interviews w/ paul pierce and other more involved parties. oh and btw...my homegirl and i started our own site: http://www.mindchattermedia.com we linked you up :)

Posted by: Vette at January 16, 2006 3:38 PM

I still won't spend a nickel on that rag. I owned ever issue, including the very first newsletters and to watch it be destroyed over time was a sad sas state of affairs. I hope they get their act together.

Posted by: todd kelley at January 16, 2006 3:55 PM

Fuck Eminem and 50 Cent. Word.

Posted by: wattupgangsta at June 1, 2006 9:24 PM

fuck benzino

Posted by: chris at June 30, 2006 10:22 PM

I like pie.

Posted by: pie eater at September 10, 2006 11:37 PM