REALLY, KOOL HERC? DJ Kool Herc, who is widely considered hip hop's founder, has decided to sue Jay-Z for slave reparations. Bruce Ratner, the developer Jay-Z has teamed up with to build a very controversial (in my neighborhood, residents protest it like it's the Vietnam War) sports complex in Brooklyn, and Barclays banks, which provided funding for the project, are also named in the suit.

According to The New York Observer, Kool Herc claims that Barclays Bank was founded by profits from the slave trade and that Mr. Ratner and Jay-Z worked “in concert” with Barclays, and “profited from the African Slave Trade and continue to profit from these gains, through a conspiracy dating back hundreds of years and continue to date to oppress Black people, enslave them, unlawfully deport them to all corners of the Earth.”

Good. Luck. With. That. [SS]