Thu 29 Nov 2012
I almost spit out my tea as I came across the latest NY post cover. Their latest victim of slander is Ryan leslie. The newspaper blasted him as a “Rap Weasel” for the controversy surrounding his promise to pay anyone $1 million of returning his lost laptop. This all happened in 2010, but was recently brought to the American courts because the man who actually “found” and returned the missing laptop, a German auto-repair-shop owner Armin Augstein, was sniffed on his reward money. Yesterday, the court ordered that Leslie pay Augstein the $1million. Leslie’s lawyer says they will try to appeal the case, and that a settlement was no longer an option. Ouch!
Isn’t this cover line ridiculous though?
“I’m very happy . . . that the American judicial system, which is so totally different from ours, functioned so well with a jury that are not professionals and are laymen,” he said in German through one his lawyers, Steven Thal.
“Don’t believe everything you read in the f*ckin news.” Even though it’s very entertaining! instagr.am/p/SnXOtBhWms/
— Ryan Leslie (@ryanleslie) November 29, 2012
Continue reading the story after the jump…
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Jurors taught a big-talking hip-hop artist a lesson about broken promises yesterday when they ordered him to pay the $1 million reward he had offered for the return of his stolen laptop.
Cheapskate performer and producer Ryan Leslie must fork over the Benjamins to auto-repair-shop owner Armin Augstein, who found the computer while walking his dog and turned it over to German cops in November 2010.
In a YouTube video, Leslie had promised a $1 million reward to whoever found the missing laptop and an external hard drive. But when Augstein produced the goods, Leslie went from big-money mogul to double-talking skinflint.
Read the full story at NY Post
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November 29th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
WTF??? So, let me get this straight. If you get robbed by someone and out of a panic say to the world “I will pay a million dollars to have it back”. You have to pay some random person a million dollars. Because they deiced to do the right thing, their civic duty.
This wasn’t even a contract or a promise it was literally something someone does out of pure panic. What’s up with this jury? Just rewarding someone a million just because. How did this guy magically find his laptop? I feel this is all bull****.
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wow Reply:
November 29th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
you’re an idiot. You can’t just say things you don’t mean, have some respect for your word.
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Say Word Reply:
November 29th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Right, because in a panic you never say things you don’t mean, never.
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November 29th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Hahahaha! Oh this is just perfect! There was just a Gawker piece today about the media labeling Black singers as “Rappers,” especially when they’re in legal trouble. It perpetuates the negative stereotypes surrounding rappers.
Check it out: http://gawker.com/5964282/stop-calling-black-singers-rappers-already
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Big D Reply:
November 30th, 2012 at 7:55 am
yeh but r-les does have a rap project out. anyway hes more a producer songwriter than anything else.
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November 29th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
This made the cover though? The Post is such trash.
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November 29th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
He is a weasel if he tried to get out of paying the reward
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November 29th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Silver lining: At least they were decent enough to give this “rapper” (cue Miss Info wink
front page in a suit and tie, amirite guys?!
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November 30th, 2012 at 12:07 am
Les finally got his wish and got recognized for his shitty rapping lol
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December 5th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
It’s a shame Mr. Augstein took the laptop to the police right after he found it. He should have held on to it and made sure Ryan would give him his money BEFORE he returned the hardwar. Ryan the weasle didn’t even have the decency to send Augstein a little thank you note, when Augstein contacted him via his specially created e-mail address ryanleslielaptopreturn@gmail.com (AFTER he hed taken it to the police).
Well, why should he bother, right? He already had his notebook at that time, wo why care about any promises he made…
And @ Say Word:
If you had watched Ryan’s video on youtube where he promised a reward for the return of his hardware, you would see that he wasn’t just blurting this out in a panic. Au contraire – he offered $20.000 in that video and raised that later to 1,000,000 after he had given it some thought. He had plenty of time to calm down.
And I guess you never cared to read about how the laptop was found or who Augstein was either, right? You just suggesting he didn’t just “find” it. Great…
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