DJ Drama Arrested by RIAA

Written by Rizoh. Posted in Mixtapes

Published on January 16, 2007 with 40 Comments">40 Comments

This just in…RIAA conducted a raid at DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz office in downtown Atlanta today. DJ Drama and DJ Cannon, along with 15 others, were arrested:

A metro law enforcement task force raided a downtown Atlanta recording studio Tuesday night. Investigators say they confiscated tens of thousands of bootleg cd’s made for sale on the internet. Click video for more information. (Video)

It’s a sad day in hip-hop when being a DJ becomes illegal, while the real culprits are still out there wreaking more havoc to society.

(Props to Young Legend for the info)

TRU

Rizoh

Rizoh is the most powerful man in all the lands. He lives in Houston where he earned a BS in Nerf Herding. He's the founder of The Rap Up, the editor of Roc4Life.com, and is in the Grammy-awaiting band Pervertable Disciples.

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  • ayeyo

    yo riz, im watching cribs right now (sandly…) and kanyeeazeay is chilling in the background as damon dash shows off his new crib. is that newsworthy? i dunno I DONT HAVE A BLOG!!!

  • ayeyo

    yo riz, im watching cribs right now (sandly…) and kanyeeazeay is chilling in the background as damon dash shows off his new crib. is that newsworthy? i dunno I DONT HAVE A BLOG!!!

  • Driom

    fuck the popo!

  • http://rap.about.com Rizoh

    ^^LOL, no comments.

  • http://rap.about.com Rizoh

    ^^LOL, no comments.

  • Driom

    fuck the popo!

  • Jattle Barz

    yo that’s messed up

  • Jattle Barz

    yo that’s messed up

  • http://bgdboom.blogspot.com Enigmatik

    That is some bullshiznit. Mixtapes are dead?

  • http://bgdboom.blogspot.com Enigmatik

    That is some bullshiznit. Mixtapes are dead?

  • JaySun

    them haters aint got nuthin better to do
    fuck they arrest a dj for?

  • JaySun

    them haters aint got nuthin better to do
    fuck they arrest a dj for?

  • Ivan

    Just a “random” raid, huh?

  • Ivan

    Just a “random” raid, huh?

  • http://novaslim.com nova

    I’m more mad that I had to sit through a commercial for McDonald’s CHICKEN BISCUIT before the footage…

  • http://novaslim.com nova

    I’m more mad that I had to sit through a commercial for McDonald’s CHICKEN BISCUIT before the footage…

  • http://therapup.blogspot.com Rizoh

    Yeah, I know, huh. They singled out one of the most successful DJs in the country.

  • http://therapup.blogspot.com Rizoh

    Yeah, I know, huh. They singled out one of the most successful DJs in the country.

  • http://therapup.blogspot.com Rizoh

    I’m more mad that I had to sit through a commercial for McDonald’s CHICKEN BISCUIT before the footage…
    nova | Homepage | 01.16.07 – 11:07 pm | #
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    Hahaha. What? Did the commercial make you hungry?

  • http://therapup.blogspot.com Rizoh

    I’m more mad that I had to sit through a commercial for McDonald’s CHICKEN BISCUIT before the footage…
    nova | Homepage | 01.16.07 – 11:07 pm | #
    —————-
    Hahaha. What? Did the commercial make you hungry?

  • http://www.myspace.com/plussign2 esbee

    This smells like a setup to me. You mean to tell me the RIAA had to wait for this amount of years before coming on to arrest Drama? Like they couldn’t do this earlier? What are they arresting him for anyway? It’s not like the artists he’s been working with didn’t agree to jump on and do records..I mean everyone wanted to do a tape with him. I just wanna know why they’re arresting him…

    These dudes can’t kill hip hop.

  • http://www.myspace.com/plussign2 esbee

    This smells like a setup to me. You mean to tell me the RIAA had to wait for this amount of years before coming on to arrest Drama? Like they couldn’t do this earlier? What are they arresting him for anyway? It’s not like the artists he’s been working with didn’t agree to jump on and do records..I mean everyone wanted to do a tape with him. I just wanna know why they’re arresting him…

    These dudes can’t kill hip hop.

  • d:)

    It’s illegal, it’s tax evasion. Now think about how much illegal money Drama has made through GG…the RIAA will hit him hard just to make an exemple of him.

  • d:)

    It’s illegal, it’s tax evasion. Now think about how much illegal money Drama has made through GG…the RIAA will hit him hard just to make an exemple of him.

  • http://www.myspace.com/plussign2 esbee

    I mean we don’t know the whole story of course…if he didn’t declare taxes that’s one thing and that would be the IRS themselves not the RIAA coming after him. RIAA got no business going after tax evaders at least not to my knowledge, I could be wrong…

    The only illegal side of what he’s doing with mixtapes is the artists giving him exclusive songs that are to appear on albums which the record labels/companies own masters of or artists that have clauses in their contract preventing them from just doing records with other ppl. Don’t forget record labels do reach out to DJ’s of his stature in order to break artists in, it’s cheaper promo for them, they themselves know this.

  • http://www.myspace.com/plussign2 esbee

    I mean we don’t know the whole story of course…if he didn’t declare taxes that’s one thing and that would be the IRS themselves not the RIAA coming after him. RIAA got no business going after tax evaders at least not to my knowledge, I could be wrong…

    The only illegal side of what he’s doing with mixtapes is the artists giving him exclusive songs that are to appear on albums which the record labels/companies own masters of or artists that have clauses in their contract preventing them from just doing records with other ppl. Don’t forget record labels do reach out to DJ’s of his stature in order to break artists in, it’s cheaper promo for them, they themselves know this.

  • frankster04

    i think it’s pretty safe to say that the RIAA is trying to make an example out of these guys or that some hater DJ snitched them out and gave the Feds some misinformation. either way, this thing stinks to high heaven, and i hope these guys are back on sirius friday night for their weekly show. if they get good defense, i don’t think these charges will stick, but then again don’t know their exact charges :(

  • frankster04

    i think it’s pretty safe to say that the RIAA is trying to make an example out of these guys or that some hater DJ snitched them out and gave the Feds some misinformation. either way, this thing stinks to high heaven, and i hope these guys are back on sirius friday night for their weekly show. if they get good defense, i don’t think these charges will stick, but then again don’t know their exact charges :(

  • pimpin

    they are tryna make examples out these cats. Hope everything come out good for them. http://www.myspace.com/yungbudha101 check this cat out. They say he’s bout to blow. Him and paul wall got a tight song tho…

  • pimpin

    they are tryna make examples out these cats. Hope everything come out good for them. http://www.myspace.com/yungbudha101 check this cat out. They say he’s bout to blow. Him and paul wall got a tight song tho…

  • http://therapup.blogspot.com Rizoh

    True but sad.

    I’m sure there’s plenty of unsolved murders in ATL, but they’d rather arrest mixtape DJs. Wow.

  • http://therapup.blogspot.com Rizoh

    True but sad.

    I’m sure there’s plenty of unsolved murders in ATL, but they’d rather arrest mixtape DJs. Wow.

  • http://therapup.blogspot.com Rizoh

    ^What’s the point of re-recording the evidence?

  • http://therapup.blogspot.com Rizoh

    ^What’s the point of re-recording the evidence?

  • d:)

    For bootlegging purposes!

  • d:)

    For bootlegging purposes!

  • huyk

    “From what I heard: 50,000 CD’s were tooken up as evidence and then re-recorded, then destroyed.”

    Pretty sure CDs can’t be “re-recorded”

  • huyk

    “From what I heard: 50,000 CD’s were tooken up as evidence and then re-recorded, then destroyed.”

    Pretty sure CDs can’t be “re-recorded”

  • Illmatic620

    Yes they can, they can be burnt again, all the CDs could be ripped to a HD, or burnt again to another CD, dont see the the point of reburning, ripping and keeping originals as evidence makes sense

  • Illmatic620

    Yes they can, they can be burnt again, all the CDs could be ripped to a HD, or burnt again to another CD, dont see the the point of reburning, ripping and keeping originals as evidence makes sense

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