Cx1DJs We Do Things Different Podcast Untold Stories of Chris Lighty hosted by DJButterrock

Cx1DJs We Do Things Different Podcast Untold Stories of Chris Lighty hosted by DJButterrock   Darrel[a] Steven "Chris" Lighty[3] (May 8, 1968 – August 30, 2012) was an American music manager and record producer. He co-founded Violator, a record label, management and marketing company, which represented hip hop and R&B artists such as Busta Rhymes, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Mobb Deep, Missy Elliott, LL Cool J, Noreaga, Prodigy, 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and Sean "Diddy" Combs.[1][3][4] The New York Times called him "one of the most powerful figures in the hip-hop business."[5]
Early life
Lighty[3] was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, and raised in the Bronx River Housing Projects.[4][1] His mother was single. He had five siblings, including a brother, Dave.[6] He attended Samuel Gompers High School, and did not attend college, and he stated that he "got [his] MBA in hell," in reference to growing up on the streets of a dangerous neighborhood.[5]
Career
Lighty began working in the music industry by carrying vinyl record crates for DJ Red Alert.[7] Later, Russell Simmons' company, Rush Artist Management, hired him.[1] After leaving Rush, Lighty co-founded Violator Management with Mona Scott-Young in 1996;[8] the company is named after the gang he belonged to in the Bronx. Violator was responsible for getting L.L. Cool J his first Gap commercial in 1997. Lighty developed endorsements for

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Yeah, CX1 DJs, we do things different podcasts. We on the air. How y'all doing? It's DJ Butter Rock. I'm gonna put my airphones on so I can hear everybody. Shout out to everybody in the, you know, that that that support me. And we have a dope show tonight. I'm gonna need everybody to invite their friends and family. This is a show that if you in an industry, you trying to be in the industry, you want to be in the industry, and you can see all the dirt and all the all the shit that comes with this industry, this is the show for you. You might not want to miss this show. This untold story is uh it took us three months to do. Um and out of that three months, uh a month and a half to get everything cleared with all the people involved. So this show right here, 99% of this shit is uh only the one percent is allegedly that's the shit that we got in that we gotta stay allegedly on for legal purposes. But this show right here is uh to me, I'm on my I'm in my journalist bag. I'm a DJ, and actually, I'm gonna get into the situation uh how I met Chris Lighty. We're gonna get into that to this, and we're not even gonna play around tonight. This is a real, real deep untold stories. And I'm gonna need everybody to get their tissue together. We're not even gonna joke around tonight. That's how serious tonight is. I'm gonna give time for everybody to get in here, all the so-called supporters. See, Chris Lighty had a whole bunch of people he helped. Y'all ain't hear me. I'm gonna preach tonight on this untold story. Now, if y'all know who I am, I'm DJ Butterock, CEO of CX1 DJs, CEO, owner, and founder of we do things different podcasts, CX1 DJs. Uh, we do things different podcasts, Trademark, uh, LLC, all that good shit. E and E entertainment management. See, I own a management company, so I know the heart and the work that I do to manage artists. We we manage a bunch of artists and we and DJs, and we got rid of, we only manage one artist now. We managed what we do, we manage in companies, t-shirt printing companies, um, and um podcast companies, and we partner up with a lot of other people. So um that's what we do. Shout out to everybody checking in. And I think the iHeart Media logo is over uh is underneath some of the comments. I can't say some of them, but if you hear, shout out to TCAP, shout out to um um DJ Money. This is a I'm gonna give everybody time to invite their friends and family. I know some people like they eat, I'm cooking dinner, I'm doing this, I'm trying to try to invite your people on, man. This is the deep show. This is what I want you to do. T Cap, because I know you're a manager, you might want to invite other managers and other regular Zecs that you know, like Levi producers. This is this is the show for you people that's trying to get into this music industry. The good, bad, and the ugly that come with it. So everybody say they want to be in this music industry. You can't you can't be in this music industry without the fucking knowledge. Being I'm a fucking manager, and Chris Lighty was a fucking super manager. All you so-called fucking managers need to be on here to learn. You want to learn something. You're gonna learn something. My relationship with Chris Lighty in Vale the management, my relationship with a lot of this shit, me being in the music industry, this ain't this ain't a show that you want to fucking miss if you you claim you want to be a manager, you claim you wanna be a lot of you niggas is is just wanna be with the fucking, just want to go and jump on niggas' dicks once they got it. Well, this dick right here, niggas ain't jumping on it without hard work. I ain't uh and no homo. And nigga, nigga ain't getting nothing unless they work for it. I ain't giving a motherfucker a bone, nigga. Just it's gonna be hard. It's fucking hell to get something out of DJ Butter Rock without fucking working. Everybody wanna get to the top, everybody want to do this. But what this this and it honestly, back then they motherfuckers ain't want to work. But back in that that that time, I'm gonna bring y'all up to speed here because a lot of shit Chris Lighty did, he did it in a man of uh he did it very quickly. But he when he got into that role as a manager, and not only a manager, built an empire of managing artists and businesses. He didn't just manage artists. This nigga, this young man, King, RP to him, managed businesses. He had uh full-fledged opera multi-billion item record companies that he was the manager for. So if you get signed with Def Jam, they had their management company that was the only one he was using that was certified was violated management. You could not be in, we talk about, I'm gonna get into it. Oh, your Google searches, like everybody, oh, he's gonna tell the story. I'm gonna Google. Motherfuckers, you Google searches don't don't fuck with my PR shit that I got here. We know you fucking faggot ass niggas. Oh, I'm gonna Google this, I'm gonna get he's gonna say what I see on Google. No, we don't report what's on Google. Okay, so we don't do that. That's goofy shit. Because I know niggas say, oh, he's doing that, and we gonna go Google it. No, nigga. So I like to shit, I like calling niggas out. The niggas to be watching my videos later, and maybe you know it is what it is. So we get untold shit and we report that. Let's just make that clear for anybody to go back and watch my fucking video. We do un un un un untold shit that you never heard. This is a show that motherfuckers don't want to miss. So I'm um, like I said, we're not gonna rent too, rent the rape too much. I'm gonna give time for people to get on here. Um let me text some couple of people. I'm gonna black ass. The show is on, and we are not joking tonight. We we are here and we are showing love to my brother from another mother, Chris Lighty, Lighty Brothers. Now, let me give y'all some homework. Because I want to definitely keep fully y'all in what we got going on here. The CX1 DJ's we do things different podcasts is gonna bring you back. And if you never know some of these entities, because Chris Lighty is not an artist. See, you think you some of you people think we just cover artists. Now we cover empires, we cover stories that other people either forgot about, don't want to touch. We're gonna cover that with the CX1 DJs. We do things different podcasts, untold stories. It's gonna be stories that we might have to send to certain authorities to open up investigations. Because we open up a we have a team of investigations that we work with. Vestigators, excuse me. Vestigators that we work with. We're not just doing this, y'all. Y'all think this is some bullshit? And I don't want to keep having a conversation with my team. Yo, yo, yo, no, nigga, we up, nigga. We we I'm taking this shit to a whole nother level. Because I'm I'm I don't want to just watch podcasts that that niggas on there talking like females or females talking like men. No, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna make it you think about it when you watch our show. And every show is gonna be deeper and deeper. We're gonna get in the top bag. What I mean by that, we're gonna spend money on investigators, we're gonna spend money on publicists, we're gonna spend money on um um um paying off record as ex that's what you heard me paying off recorders ex that was in the building with some of these people. If I was in there and nobody my coach wasn't in there, anybody on my team wasn't in there, we like making sure the right parties get paid for their content and make sure we go ahead and vet it, make sure it's legit. I will I will I will repeat CX1 DJs, we don't report, we don't do no allegedly shit, and we don't report news that was not vetted. And if it's something that we don't have 100% sure on, we will say allegedly. We we do shit by the book over here. We got attorneys, business attorneys, criminal attorneys, we got all that shit over here. And um, and I will say this all our shit is trademark, all that shit is uh Vennit. So anybody use our logo or anything, and it's still our videos, anything, we will go after you legally, and we will sue the fuck out of you, and we will get anything that you got if you use any of our content, logos, anything, we will come after you. This is the real business. You slander anybody in CX1 DJs, you use our logo on false printance, the CX1 DJ's logo or the CX1 DJ podcast logo, and we catch you. That's your ass. And we looking. That's why I hired the lawyers. That's why we've got we got attorneys on on standby. I've been seeing people stealing our videos. Like we uh we're we'll get the we get the video from our our sources, and somebody see it on our podcast and they go steal it and try to tag it up. No, no, nigga. That's why we tag people like, why you got to we tag it up because that's our fucking video. That's the videos we got cleared, we got this clearance on this. Anything we got, either we own it or we got the clearance on it. We don't do reposting over here. And if we did, we make sure it's cleared. We don't post no shit that don't belong to us. So if I see somebody stealing any of my material, we are coming after your channel, your YouTube channel, your Instagram, your Facebook, whatever that shit is posted at. Don't try to post none of my shit unless we advise you to post it. That's why my team, I email just the cover. We don't email y'all no videos, we don't do none of that because it's on it's for us to post only. Trust me, if I wanted y'all to post videos, I'll send you videos. And you know we don't do that, we just send y'all the covers. So I'm uh see anybody watch our shit later on, you're not authorized to steal any of our content. We our attorneys will go after your black ass, white ass, Mexican, Dominican, Spanish, Latino, Indian. I don't give a fuck what your nationality. We will come after you. Female, male, gay, straight. I don't give a fuck which what you do. Little, young, old. I'm 15 years old, I'm 80 years old. I was just trying to know, nigga. We didn't off the right. And we are not licensing now, none of our shit. And we're not in the business to do no joint ventures unless you got joint venture money. I just want to get this shit out there because that shit's about to blow up. Shout out to Chad from IHA Media, my coach. Now he's coming as a partner with the CX1 DJ podcast. So all that free shit, niggas, nothing free. I don't give a fuck if you with CX1 DJs. Everyone here is not free at all. No discounts, none of that. He says no discounts ain't none of that shit. He's building this shit up with me. He's coming in as a 50-50 partner with the CX1 DJs. We do things different podcasts, because I know I can't depend on certain people. And some people, I could depend on people, people might not have the stamina to do what I need them to do. So it's not about the people I got, because I got a lot of people with me. It's just you do you have the the stamina and do you have the resources to do what we need to do on a higher level? So we got to bring on a team that got to that could do that without getting rid of anyone else. Because I had people say we need to get rid of. No, we're not getting rid of nobody. The team is here. Some people just can't accomplish certain things. It's not, and we don't need to get rid of them. And I'm gonna get to Chris Lighty. So let's talk about Chris Lighty. One half of the Lighty brothers. Now, it's him and his brother. Let me back up a little bit. Because you notice I'm not gonna pick up nothing. Because I met Chris Lighty a bunch of times back in the 90s in the early 2000s, and up in New Jersey, in New York. Actually, Chris Lighty had a condo in Hoboken, New York. That's outside of Jersey City. I used to see him all the time walking his dog in Hoboken, New Jersey. Okay? That's not too far from where my mother lived at. Actually, RP to my mother. My mother died in Hoboken, New Jersey. That's crazy, right? I met Chris Lighty in Hoboke, New Jersey. My mother died in Hoboken, New Jersey. Get your tissues. It's gonna be sensitive. Let's get back to it. Look, RP to my mother, Sandra Jones. All right. So I met him in New Jersey. He was already, we're gonna talk about 2000, right? This way before September 11. He was a very approachable person. He was walking his dog. His brownstone condo, whatever you want to call it, was down the street from the train station. You get you get on that path train, you take that Hoboken train to New York, you take it to Times Square, Chris uh uh 14th Street. You know, true story for you, not New York, New Jersey people. If you're from up north, you know what I'm talking about in Hoboken. So I met him and I was actually, I actually believe he was walking the dog, and one thing about Chris Lighty, he will get on the train to go to New York, to the city, to his office. And that's one of his brownstones, a condos, whatever you want to call it, he had. He had multiple properties. So I met him and we talked briefly about. Actually, he was like, it was 2000. Yeah, 2000. He was like, Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna be at the um Sound Factory Bar. He invited me to the Sound Factory Bar. All right, so all my New York has, you know where the Sound Factory Bar at. So we're gonna we untold stories. So that's my one reaction with him. And did I go to the Sound Factory Bar? I did. He invited me, I went, and I met Kwame. I met DJ Reddalurk. Well, I met Redalurk a bunch of times. I met Busta. Buster was actually Buster Rhymes was there. Um, who else I met there? I met Kwame Buster, DJ Reddalurk. Actually, it was DJ Reddalurk's birthday. It was his birthday party. And Rudd Alurk was on Kiss FM. He was doing his birthday party there. It was Chris Lighty, Reddalurk, um, Busta Rhyme, and Kwame. Number only people I remember. We talk about 2000, man. That shit way before the way before um September 11. Well, a year before September 11. It was a dope party. It was VIP. Like, that's I was used to VIP shit. Like, I tell all my people in CX1 DJs, we don't do, we don't do nothing unless it's VIP. If it's not VIP, we we we can't do it. We we we just can't do it. So anyway, so the party was dope. Took pictures. Back then we it was no camera phone. She was regular bullshit ass camera. Oh, you have your big videographer there. And it was a dopest event. Everybody, everybody was in Hollywood, everybody took pictures, Bustler took pictures, um Um Kwame took pictures. Everybody was there actually vibing at this industry event. And was DJ Redalurk birthday party, old school, legendary DJ Redalurk from Kiss FM. Yeah, so that was cool. And um it wasn't no, yo, and at that time, 2000, I already had an album out with Columbia Records. It wasn't no, hey, let's get a record deal. It was more vibing. It wasn't no fanboy, yo, yo, Chris Light. It wasn't none of that bullshit. I've I was familiar with him from Violator. Violator management was the violator. You you can't turn on the radio without hearing a violator artist from the, you know, you couldn't you couldn't turn on the radio without that. So let's get how Chris Lighty started. Because I want to get I'm gonna jump in. We don't got time to bullshit tonight. So Chris Lighty started from actually hanging out with DJ Rudd Allerk. All right, he carried his records. All right, he carried this nigga, this nigga right here, Chris Lighty started by carrying DJ Reddalurk vinyl. Okay, he used to go to the tunnel, Latin Quarters, Union Square, Rooftop. Every time Red Alurk had a party, he invited Chris Lighty. If you from New Jersey, New York, you couldn't listen to Kiss FM without hearing DJ Red Alurk shout out Chris Lightie. Chris Lighty also was doing a lot of um a consultant for DJ Redalurk, Untold Stories of Chris Lighty. So he started fucking with a DJ. Violet management was just a dream. He started carrying records, meeting a whole bunch of artists. We got some lot of shit we doing by the New York scene too, Yaqui Ready. So when you when you end the DJ and you and DJ Redalurk is a legend, all right. We never gonna take that from DJ Red Alurk. And he opened up the doors for a lot of people. So when DJ Redalurk spin, you had Keras One, you had L O Q J, you had all everybody that was somebody went to all DJ Redalurk parties back then. See, the radio was a big thing in the 90s, eight excuse me, 80s into the 90s. So Chris Lighty meet a lot of start meeting a lot of people. Then he was at, I'm gonna tell you he was at, he was at the polo. And I'm gonna give you all the year. The polo 1996. And um, he ran into Russell Simmons, all right? Untold stories. Russell Simmons gave him a job to pretty much work with another division of management or whatever it was. I don't want to lie, because I ain't looking at no paper. He started working with Russell Simmons um behind the scenes on his management part. And he did that in 90. That was 96. After that, after that, um, he pretty much continued to network in New York City, and he ran into a beautiful, beautiful chocolate, brown skin queen, and um a rising star in the music industry. And her name was Mona Scott. And y'all should know Mona Scott as the founder of Love and Hip Hop, the brand. All right. It wasn't on Love and Hip Hop back in the 90s, alright? So um 1997, Chris Lighty and Mona Scott started Violet Management. It was just the two of them. Y'all ain't hear what I just said. From all that carrying records in the 80s and beginning of the 90s, it it took years. It took over seven years because he started carrying he was carrying records for DJ Red Lurk in 89. Let's get it, don't get it twisted. Chris Lighty been on the scene since 1989. I want nobody to fucking forget. Don't get it twisted. So he started carrying records for Red Alurk. He's from New York. And um I want to make it clear, Chris Lighty's from New York, born and raised in New York. All right, so he started carrying records in 1989 and he kept going. 89 to get his first break in 96 is a long time to get your wings, you know, to get to get to get your start in this music industry. So he met Mona Scott, him and Mona Scott started managing. The first thing he did when he launched his management company. Let me ask y'all something. Do y'all know the whole point of being a manager? Now some of you sucker sucker hating as motherfuckers don't know. Did DJ Butter Rock got the source? I've been a manager. I've been managing Punkinfoot since she got into the music industry in 2008. Chris Lighty was still living in 2008. I did so much, I did artist development. We invested money in eating entertainment management, my management company. We rested money, time, resources. So, housing, which I'm still doing at a lot of stuff managers do that people don't know. It's like a babysitter. So, Chris Lighty, him and Mona Scott together started. And people didn't know Mona Scott had something to do with violated management. Yes, who the hell fuck you think started it? I just don't Mona Scott was with love and hip-hop. Most of these record is ex and most of these people that you see in the spotlight today didn't just start because you heard of them.

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Did you hear what I said? People just watching. And people might watch later on. The people you hear, oh, I don't. No, no, no, no. Mona Scott has been in the game a long time, as Benzino. We will get into that Benzino and Mona Scott story another time. Not today. Not on the Chris Lighty Unto stories. That's some deep shit with Ben. Shout out to Benzino. That's my that's a good nigga. I know that nigga. The sauce magazine benzino. Rapper Benzino. We're gonna have a conversation with Benzino behind the scenes. That's my guy. We was buying furniture together. Let's back up to Benzino. We was at the same place. He's we was at Rooms to Go. Benzino was buying some furniture. Me and Punk was buying some furniture. We was there with Benzino. Benzino's a good nigga. Shout out to Benzino. I gotta because him and Mona Scott, and Benzino know the shit about Chris Lighty as well. We're gonna get into that, don't we? We're gonna get into that. Why y'all think I ain't bullshit tonight? I went right into it. We got a lot to talk about. All right, back to this. So Mona Scott and um they started the management company. Y'all think management is just about giving you a record deal? Do you think it? I'm gonna tell you what Chris did it. This what this is the direction that all managers need to go in. And this is what Chris was doing in the 90s when he started Palayada Management. He made sure that anybody he was managing and his brand was managing was already moving. Let me drink my let me drink some of my fucking apple juice because I'm on a diet. You ain't hear what I just said. I send this my link to everybody. Oh, everybody I know that's a manager, but they too big in their bag and they too much about fucking haters. But they might be watching other browsers. I'm not even gonna look at my hey, guess what? My coach, my loon partner, Chad said, fuck who looking, they'll look at it later. They look at it now. We ain't gonna get into that number shit. We're gonna get into that. Real meat and potatoes. Chris Lighty from Violator Management was a true trendsetter. Let's get that straight. The brother was a true trendsetter. To be a trendsetter, you had to set trends. How can you manage somebody when you don't have nothing to manage? You can't manage some shit that you don't got to manage. How can you say you are manager and you ain't managing shit? Everybody say I'm a manager. But you're not even here to get the education on how to be a manager. This show, if anybody sat there and looked up who I was gonna do an untold stories on, instead of being a hater, they would have their ass here. Lock the fuck in. You motherfuckers will watch you later. So let's get back to Chris Lighty. All right. Keep in mind, 1997, he started violating records. Management, then he turned it turned into a record company. The first artist that was already signed at Def Jam. Keep in mind, he came on as a partner and independent contractor with multiple major labels. We're gonna get into that. Okay, first his first client, Def Jam. I hope y'all remember what I said. Working with DJ Red Allerk, he met Russell Simmons. Russell Simmons gave him a job in Def Jam, one of the divisions of Def Jam. Russell had about 30 different divisions in Def Jam. All right. All right, so LL Cool J was the first client that he gave. He got the gap commercial. So if you ever go look up the gap commercial with LL Kou J, that was that was um brought to him by Chris Lighty. Chris Lighty worked that out, worked a deal. He negotiated that for him to do the gap commercial. With his resources and his connection with Gap, he had the Dolchman deal done for LL Ku J to do the Gap commercial, which that bring in a whole lot of money for LL KuJ. Which Chris Lighty percentage was 35%. When you could you could sit there and say, hey, I could I could deliver. LL say, all right, Chris. Chris said, hey man, I got a couple of, you know, he went to Dept Jam to be one of the management companies. Because you know if you sign to a major label, the major label cannot manage you. Either you come in there with your own manager or the record label will recommend recommend a management uh firm for you, which that's what all the fucking labels do. They want to they don't want you to have your own manager, they want to recommend a management that they work with that's very experienced and have the qualifications to manage your black ass if you got what it takes. If you a part of their brand and they give you advanced money or anything they gave you, they're gonna want you to have somebody that is credible and and very you know skilled on what the fuck they doing. Boom. So L O Ku J was the first one of 97. Then we have a trial called Quest. They get them, they got them a Dorseman deal with Sprite. Who the fuck? Come on, y'all. This man was bad. Uh so Riley the management got the Dorseman deal with Sprite for Trico Quest. And um, which he didn't really want to work with the Trico Quest, but he he did it. And um he he got definitely got uh definitely another AT ⁇ T uh commercial for another artist with Def Jam. Bus the Rhyme, he got Buster Rhym, the Mountain Dew commercial. So that's just some of the few of the things that this beautiful brother did. Chris Lighty did a lot of shit for a lot of people. All right, a lot of shit for a lot of people, man. Keep in mind, Valley management started, keep in mind, it started in '96. And it ended when he died in 2012. That's some sad shit. We only only hear an hour. I'll try to push for two hours. My management said, my management, because I have a management now too. I get into that later. I get into it. It ain't about me. I had to hire a management team to manage me because I got so much shit going on. I actually did that on Monday. I was so pissed off how other shit was going. I said, I need a team to work with me. So I hired a management team. My management said, nope, keep it out of the hour, get the hell out of there. So let's let's just be honest. Because I want I gotta put my spill to this. When you are part of this shit, you can't trust no fucking body. Chris Lighty was trusting a lot of people. He was trusting a lot of people.

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May 8th, 1968.

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He was born in the Bronx, New York. Alright? He died August 30th, 2012, at age 44. Years of being in business, 19, he started his career in 1989. It ended when he died in 2012. So sad, so sad. So damn sad, so sad, so sad. Now, I'm gonna tell you something. The first artist that he started managing, see, Busta been around for a long time. Busta Ron was his first artist that he started managing. Busta been out when leaders of the new school. One of the members, untold stories, CX1 DJs. I'm gonna drop a jewel on your ass. One of the members of Leader New School swung on Chris Loti at one of the parties that Red Allerk was doing. And then one of the members tried to jump him when he would go into his car. This is nowhere. He can't find us nowhere. Classify information, niggas. So this is before Chris Loti started managing Buster. Alright. So at the time, Chris Lottie, without these motherfuckers even knowing. I don't know who broke up that fight, but I know it was not Buster that broke up that fight. My intel told me that was not Buster that broke up the fight when they was trying to fight Chris Lottie outside the club. I won't say the club. I will say the club. It was in Union Square, New York. Out in Union Square, they got in a fight. DJ Ritterler was DJing. A couple of members from Lisa New School, I won't say their names, uh, try to jump Chris Lighty. I don't know who broke it up. It wasn't no security. I know it wasn't Busta, I can tell you that. My intel told me who broke it up, but I'm not gonna say that on here because they told me not to. All right, so untold. You can't find us nowhere. All right, so the fight was broken up. Chris got in his car and left. Ho behold, the person when they was fighting him did not know that Chris Lighty already did a deal. Because keep in mind, I want y'all to stay with me. Chris Lighty of Violated Management was already working with every major you could name. How the fuck are you fighting? I don't think, I don't really think at the time when they when that happened when they when they was trying to fight him for my intel, they knew that was Chris Lighty. That is though this was a nigga that was trying to, you know, punk or some shit. Well, Chris Lighty was not a punk. He was not a pussy. He was none of that. So I don't know if they did if they thought that's what they was that what that was that was. I don't know what they thought that was a, you know, he was a punk or some shit. I'm I'm looking at something, that's what I'm stuttering. And um they I don't know what they thought, but they wasn't dealing with a pussy. So it took two of them to try to trump them. And this members of the leader leaders of the new school, that was the group that Busta Ram was with. No behold, unlucky for some of the members of the leader of the new school, Chris Lighty started working with Vive Records. Okay. And when he started working for that record company, it merged with the other record company that it was with. And um immediately that that record company was actually breaking breaking up. Vibe went into Jive. So Vibe Records was brought out by Job Records. And y'all know Job Records was the was the lead shit back in the 80s and 90s. You have vibe and you had job. Job vibe went into the magazine part. So you ever look up Vibe Magazine? There used to be a record company and then went to the magazine part, and then job records brought that. So the leader of the new school went from Vibe Records to Job Records, and then guess who was the manager running all the artists on Job Records? Let me get a sip of my fucking goddamn apple juice. Yes, it was the violator management. Was doing all the management for job records. And he told him, I don't mind taking on Buster Rhyme, but I'm not managing leader of the new school. He said that shit with his chest out. Them niggas try to fucking jump me in Union Square. You better watch who you fucking fight now in these motherfucking streets. You see how God works? So, you already know leaders of the new school broke up, and guess who's still popping all in all these years later? Buster Rahm is still jumping. That was Chris Lighty's first artist that he managed. He used to manage in multiple companies. You gotta understand, you have organizations that hire you to do a job for their artists and like he did with L O Ku J. Hey, get this guy to Dorsman. Hey, I want him on this commercial. Managers were putting you in movies back then, and still now getting you in places that you or your record company can't do. Record company can't do all that. That's why you hire a man. That's why I just hired a management firm to manage my ass and all my shit. Why do you think I did that? Because I can't fucking be a manager, manage myself, nigga. That's why my prices just went up. And and I'm gonna tell you what my manager told me. My new I'm one of my managers, he passed away last year. So, and he was my homeboy. That's like homeboy manager, but he's been in the game. Shout out to JS. He's been in the game like a motherfucker. JS know Chris Lighty as well. Um, and JS is a big he was big in the industry, Mary J. Blyde's uncle. So, you know, by marriage, but he was big in the game, but I went ahead and hired a team. Violator management was a team. When you got when you hired Violator, you hired a whole fucking staff, secretary, team, all kinds of shit. You need a team. So I hired I hired me a team. So back to this. So, Chris Lighty did not want to work with leaders of new school, and he shouldn't want to work with somebody that tried to jump. Now keep in mind, they didn't fuck him up. Well, I ain't never said they fucked him up. He didn't get his ass whooped outside Union Square in New York City. That did not happen. But what did happen was he made sure he was he see what's so fucked up about it? Chris Lighty knew the members was part of the leader of new school. They didn't know that he was Chris Lighty. Some deep shit, ain't it? He knew them. They didn't know him. That's some crazy shit. But anyway, he agreed to manage Buster by himself. And he was with Buster from um, he started managing Buster in '97 all the way up to 2012. Don't get it twisted. He was with Buster. Everything that you saw Buster doing from 1997, like, really want to crime to me, let me know to see when it have to be. That shit came from Chris Lighty. The whole career, Chris Lighty. Up to 2002, up to where he died. I will be here all day if I I can't go down and list all the artists that Chris Lighty managed. I'm just gonna give you some of them. Trial Core Quest. God damn, it's a bunch of them. Trial Call Quest, Missy Elliott, L OQ J. Um He did some stuff with Drake, um, MC Light, DJ with a Lurk, Big Daddy King, Kwame, god damn it. Let me, let me, I don't want to forget nobody. Hold on. Let me give you all the list of all these artists that this man managed, man. God damn it. He managed a lot of people. CX1 DJs, we do things dipping podcasts. He managed Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim. Oh, god damn it. Did some work with Nicki Minaj. Man, this man managed everybody. I'll be here to tomorrow. You name it, Chris Lighty. You could Google it too. That shit is Google. My T and my untold shit ain't. He managed anybody that was somebody. He worked with Atlantic. He worked with Def Jam closely with Russell. Everybody on the Def Jam roster, he managed. Run DMC. Slick Rick. De La Soul. He managed everybody from the Timey Boy roster, Timey Boy Records. Make me say it everything for you young people don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. Timey Boy Records, Warner Music Group roster, Universal roster, Atlantic Records roster, RCA roster, the Lighty Brothers, Valley the Management, manage all your favorite niggas. Mariah Carey? What the fuck? 50 Cent. I said 50 Cent. He did shit with Jar Rue, Ashante, Mary J. Blige, Puffy. I'll be here all night, and I don't got all night. Some of your favorite rappers, Chris Lighty, Vallet of Management, Volley of Management, Vallet of Management had something to do with him. So let's talk about what happened with the 50 Cent situation. So let's get into it. We're going to get into like how to rob. When 50 Cent uh he actually was dealing with 50 Cent back in the 80s, 80s, when he met him in the 80s, actually in Queens. When he was very young. And then he ran back into 50 Cent in the like when he started Violator. 50 Cent said, yo, man, I need, I need, I need, um, nobody wanna fuck with me. And this is to me. This is came from Violator management people. Because see, Violator broke up, but them motherfuckers are still working. 50 Cent, yo, man, nobody wanna fuck with me. At the time, 50 was not a popular person to be fucking with. Nobody wants to manage 50 Cent. He went to K-Slay. Drama King, K-Slay from around the way. K Slay started fucking with 50 Cent. K Slay brung him to Jammaster J. Jaster J said, all right, man, I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna do some negotiation, man. I'm gonna do I'm gonna do this and this and that. Jam Master J immediately called Chris Lighty. He said, man, I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna help this nigga with some production and shit with his mixtapes. I'm gonna tell you what Jam man, I got the notes. I studied this shit. I've been doing this, working on this Chris Lighty shit for three months. So like it'll take 90 days to get this shit together. So I studied all the tram skits I got emailed to me from PRs and record companies and shit like that. So I don't gotta look at the paper. Yeah, I don't think I looked at the email one time since I've been on here. I I studied this shit. So Jammaster J told Chris Lighty, hey man, I can I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna negotiate some shit with the mixtapes. I'll get them hot in the streets because at the time, JMAster J was the shit. We're talking about late 90s. Alright, so JMASTAJ went ahead and called Chris Lighty. Chris Lighty went ahead and um started cooking up some stuff in the background. He told 50 Cent to come to his office. And this is, let me make sure I'm saying this right. Yep, he told 50 Cent to come to his office. 50 Cent went to the office, he signed him. He told, he told 50 Cent, hey, I want to sign you to my record company. 50 Cent, man, I don't know about that, man. You know how 50 talk. 50 was cocky, man. You know, this nigga was a stick-up kid, Robin nigga. He was a he was a street nigga. So Chris Lighty talked him into, well, 50 Cent won because he was saying, all right, man, you don't want to do that. 50 did not want to sign to his valet of record records. Because he had management, he had recordings. He didn't want, you don't, you can't sign both, nigga. You can either sign a recording contract or you can sign a management contract. 50 Cent was smart, and he said, nah, I gotta pick it. I want to, I want you to, I want you to pitch me. Okay, so Chris Lighty went ahead and signed him to the Valley of Management. All right. What you gotta understand, he signed with Valley to Management right before he got shot. So we talk about he had to go to jail twice. So he signed in Valley to Management '98. Keep in mind, from 1998, they were trying to get you, they did How to Rob. That was under Valley the Management. When he did How to Rob and all the singles and all the mixtapes, you know, and he got his deal with another record label. And then that, you know, that ain't go good with uh with 50 Cent, and then he was blackballed. And it was Chris Lighty that stand by the side when everybody else turned his back. He gets shot. He went to jail and get shot. Why he's getting better, guess who's shopping his deal? Chris Lighty still stands by his side, him and Jammaster J and winning. It wasn't Chris by itself. I don't know why people keep reporting that it was just Chris Lighty that did it. It was Jammaster J as well. Yeah, so both of them. It was we gotta give love to um big shout out to Jammaster J, Runday MC DJ, award-winning, um, legendary DJ Jammaster J. We cannot fit it, forget him on this show tonight. All right, so he was responsible for it, but Chris Lighty, the one that did the footwork. So Chris Lighty had a meeting with you know, he's he went to an event in Detroit and he saw Eminem and he gave Eminem. So all these stories that 50 Cent did it, no. Chris Lighty of Riley the Management gave Eminem 50 Cent mixtape. That's how the shit happened. So, you know, other people report the fake shit. CX1 DJs, we report the real shit, untold stories. So you miss a little, you miss a lot over here. So Shady decided to sign him with Shady Records aftermath. They worked out the deal. The deal was good. Chris Lottie got his money, and um 50 Cent got his deal. People was in New York like, who the fuck got that nigga on? Nobody in New York went the fuck with 50 Cent. Beefing with you understand you have Murder Inc. We got an untold story coming with Earth Got it. Y'all get ready. We had Murder Inc. was the biggest, one of the biggest gangsters record companies that's powered by Def Jam Records. Even though they keep saying it was Murder Inc., it was it was under the Def Jam umbrella, Def Jam Universal was under that shit. Leon Cohn's all it was a lot of big, powerful, scary people behind Murder Inc. I hope y'all y'all walk with me. Get your tissues out. No one liked it 50 Cent. 50 Cent was pretty much the worst motherfucker in New York that you want to write. His music was there, but no record companies, nobody wanted to touch him. Murder Inc. Herb Gotti, that machine was killing his vibe in New York City. Him being shot some people in the industry, like, yo, man, they're trying to kill you. They didn't kill you, so they're gonna try to do the job. Nobody wanted to be around him. Only one brother standby 50 Cent side was Chris Lighty. Imagine you, the public enemy number one, and you have a young management, you have a young manager and his company stand behind you. Let's talk about the untold story. Let's talk about when some goons broke up and violated the studio and tore off the studio. Untold stories. Right after 50 Cent got his deal signed. Right after Violet Management got 50 Cent the deal with Shady Aftermath, someone came and violated. And fucked up the whole studio. Untold stories. You won't find that nowhere. Who the fuck was sacrificed? They were they company, they life, they they they reputation, they livelihood. Motherfuckers went in and tore up the awards, they tore up the whole, or some goddamn big red shit, tore up the whole studio. Like this is some five hard beat shit. Luckily, nobody was at the violator studios when that shit happened. And that case never been resolved. They never found out who tore off the fucking the studio and the management company. They broke in the motherfucker and tore the whole shit up. Right a week after 50 Cent got his record deal. Untold story of Chris Lottie violated management. You ain't hear that shit nowhere. I want you other bloggers trying to steal my shit now. So I'm gonna pick the times and dates or nothing for legal purposes, but I will say this. Oh, it's real. But I know how to do my my journalist reporting and I know what the fuck I'm doing. So that happened. 50 Cent goes off in let's get it straight. 50 Cent dropped multiple albums after that. Get Rich Die Trying. He did uh Get Get Rich Die Trying the movie. He did this, he did that. So it was a couple of deals was going on in um with other rap. You had you had him, then you had Buster got still doing the shit. He had the shit he was doing Misty. Chris Lottie was really doing a lot of powerful shit. When you bring a lot of powerful shit, you bring a lot of drama, you bring a lot of anything. The one that was making 50 cents, I mean Chris Lighty the most money was 50 cents. He started working with Drake. Drake team did not want Chris Lighty to manage Drake. Drake wanted Valley the management to manage him. I don't think you heard what I said. Let me get let me get some more juice. Let me drink some more motherfucking apple juice. CX1 DJ's unto story, Chris Lighty, Valley the management. So you got the goons with Murder Inc. mad at Chris Lighty. You got universal people with cash money, young money don't want Drake to go that route. You gotta understand 2008, nine, Drake, 12, Drake was just getting on the scene. Chris Lighty did a lot of shit with Drake. Let's get that straight. But his team did not want the Lighty brothers to violate their management to manage Drake. So Drake was still going to get Chris Lighty to take over his fucking career. And Chris did a lot of shit with Drake. A lot of shit with Drake. A lot. More than people think they did. He did a lot of shit with Drake. Now, you know, as you see, you play the picture role we got here, you'll see the pictures with him and Drake. So he did, he did a lot of work. He made Drake made a lot of money. Chris made a bunch of money. He brought, he went with his wealth. He went ahead and brought a five million dollar mansion downtown Manhattan. Not too far from Times Square. Okay. One of his business associates, allegedly, I gotta throw that out there. Old a couple of people, some some some people in the industry. Some of these artists start coming around saying we are not getting our paid. Because you know, when you're a manager, guess you see picture of Drake right there and Chris Lighty. When you're a manager, guess where the money comes to first? When you're doing high-end management, the money don't go to the artists, it goes to the manager. And the manager has to do the splits. All right. When you're doing high, when you're doing like disco kid and that doofy shit, that it depends on who's running your admin work. So that's why I say all you so-called managers should be on here. You might learn something from DJ Butterrock, a real manager, and some of the intel I got from Chris Lighty here from his people. So a couple of people saying they wasn't getting paid, and Royce wasn't getting paid, and they didn't get this percentage of this, and they ain't got this. I can't get into all that. We're gonna do a part two to this later on this year. But let's make a long story short. He owed it over five million dollars. 50 Cent gave him a million dollars. He said, hey man, he said, but he he gave him a million dollars. Chris Lighty Lighty sold one and sold a mansion and moved to a brownstone in the Bronx. Not no everybody reporting he moved to the projects to ghetto. He moved to a nice ass brownstone in the Bronx. He worked out other deals that he was working at already. That money was coming back. He made sure that $5 million was paid. It was paid, y'all. He paid back 50 cents the million dollars he got. 50 cents gave Chris Lighty a million dollars. Nobody else that he managed that he he like he took in Buster Rom like a brother. I'm not saying Buster ain't give him no money. I don't know. I don't got that intel. Buster people didn't know we we're doing this. We send the email to them, we send the phone calls to them. They didn't send me no intel to say that Buster gave Chris Lighty anything. Only person we have the intel and the knowledge of is 50 Cent Curtis Jackson gave Chris Lighty a million dollars when he was when he was in debt five million dollars. Chris Lightie of the Violet of Management of the Lighty Brothers went and got the money from his professional sources and paid back the five million dollars that he owed any company or any artist. He was not in debt when he got killed. How you know it's reported it was a suicide. Chris Lighty had everything to go on for him. He just set up a world tour of 50 cents to make over $500 million. Who would kill themselves when they already got a tour set up for the summer of 2012? It was gonna be the summer in months. Who would who would who would shoot themselves? Who would kill themselves when they got a multi-million dollar thing? I would say jealousy and trusting the wrong fucking people could get you killed. It's a lot of artists that I won't mention that was on violator management that did not like 50. It was a lot of artists on violator management that didn't like how 50 Cent was getting most of the kunos. It was people on a lot of different labels that didn't like how he even gave a fuck about 50 Cent. If you ask me my professional advice, I think it's a mixture of certain deals that Chris Lighty made. That's why he's not here today. Do I think he kills himself? Fuck no. Ain't no legend. Chris Lighty did not, somebody killed Chris Lighty, made it look like a suicide. And I know that Darth is in New York City, the New York, the Bronx, the New York Police Department know goddamn NYPD know goddamn well Chris Lighty did not kill himself. Did I believe his shit was covered and it was paid off? I believe it was paid off, it was covered. He did not kill his motherfucking self. You Google it, it says he died by a suicide. Chris Lighty did not die by nothing. He was murdered. And everybody in this industry know it. Mona Scott know it. Buster Rhyme knows it. 50 Cent know it. R.P. the Irv Gotti, that motherfucker know it. Chris Gotti know it. That he did not kill himself. DJ Redalurk know it. R.P. the K Slay. K-Slay know he did not kill herself. DJ Butterock know he he didn't kill himself. So the cav, that's like somebody I'm doing some business and you know, because motherfuckers hate me. And I get shot. You know, somebody could tell you, hey nigga, shoot yourself. And you gotta take that gun and blow your foot. That don't mean you meant to shoot. That means that motherfucker with the gun told you to shoot yourself. Or they shoot. You know how the shit go, man. Chris Lighty did not kill. I would not do an untold story on Chris Lighty and say he murdered. The man did not kill himself. Buster get on here talking about uh he was depressed, he was going to deep depression. I think if I owe five million dollars, I might be depressed, but you know, you get depressed and you work it out. The new my my resources for my attorney gave me a full eight-page document saying that Chris Lighty owed zero dollars to any collectors, any artists, any record company at the time of his demise. He owed nothing. Zero dollars. They know it's fishy, but they the carnage are ruled out as a suicide. If a motherfucker sitting around here and watch this show after I broke everything down, the clearest I could do in one hour. We're gonna do a part two on this. Because see, I have I got intel and I got I got uh material that has gotta be it gotta be gently put together. I just can't throw it out there for legal purposes. So I'm making you know for part two, you know Chris Lighty did not kill himself. We're gonna break down every on part two in a couple of months. We're gonna break down all the artists he worked with and all the artists that had a problem with other artists. Like you ever had kids and what every kid don't get along, but they like you print you treating this month, this other kid more better than you treating that kid. When you're dealing with millions and billions of dollars, people in record companies and artists don't like that. They will and they feel that the artists that you giving all the intel to and all the endorsements and all the money and all the all the all the endorsements, they don't like that. You automatically be a target because motherfuckers are jealous. And one thing I will give Chris Lottie, my brother here. You never should be out here moving like that without no fucking security. If I learned anything, I'm rolling with my security, my gun, I'm I'm I ain't trusting nobody. You can't not trust nobody, and nobody loves you, Chris Lottie. Nobody loves you, DJ Butter Rock. Nobody knows anybody watching this? When you get to the next level, your own friends will take you the fuck out. I believe, and the right people that might watch this, I believe one and his associates, it could be inside his company. Because, you know, it was some it was some shaking up and violating management. Everybody wanted to be that one. But I'm gonna watch what I say about certain people because I'm not gonna have say something that that is not that, but they I think the authorities and they look at everybody, which I'm quite sure they did. But when you have money, you could pay off a lot of shit, so shit won't be out there. All right, he's dead, it was a suicide, leave it there, leave it there. No one believes it was a suicide, ladies and gentlemen. Nobody believes Chris Lighty killed himself. We're gonna leave that there. No fucking body believes it. But I notice everybody try to don't talk about Chris Lighty. This is the show, this is the first show I saw ever in a long time, even talking about Chris Lighty. I I uh some of these major artists, even when Buster got up there and he got his Hollywood Walk of Fame. I don't think I'm gonna go back and look and see if he even mentioned Chris Lighty. And I watched that shit with you, Buster. And I love you, Buster. But I don't remember you mentioning Chris Lighty's name when you got your Hollywood Star of Walk of Fame or your whatever award you won, because it's not about you. So I ain't look at what award it was. But I don't remember Chris Chris Lighty's name even being mentioned when you was up there, Buster. Buster, what it is right now, Buster. I ain't I ain't hear it, Buster. I ain't saying you had nothing to do with it. I'm just saying that I don't remember you mentioning when you got all your accolades on stage when you was crying on the BET awards. Did he ever mention? I'm gonna have to look. Buster, I love you. And I'm saying allegedly, I'm gonna say allegedly, I don't want to get sued. I ain't hear Buster saying nothing, congratulating Riley the Records of Management. I don't know. He might have dead. He might have did. He might have did. But I like you, Buster. But when I start doing, when I start going down that rabbit hole, start investigating what happened to my brother Chris Lighty, the brother I met at Hoboken, New Jersey in 2000, I start getting pissed. I said, somebody he knew killed him. It was a suicide, it was no motherfucking suicide. Stop that suicide shit. This nigga had millions and he knew how to get money. One thing about Chris Lighty, he was a hustler. He was not a buster, he was a hustler. And he was not, you could not, he was honorable. Where everybody in the industry was taking from people, making people drink piss and making people of the opposite of sex have sex with each other. Chris Lighty didn't do that. He wasn't out here having sex with the ladies that he was, uh, that was his clients. He was an honorable brother. Not too many people in the industry was like Chris Lighty. Before I end this show tonight, Chris Lighty was an honorable brother. He was he was uh he was the in he was the industry that the industry don't have now. I don't think it would never ever be another Chris Lighty violator management. I want to end it and celebrate his life in RP to Chris Lighty, the king he was. It will never be another Chris Lighty, never.

SPEAKER_02 58:14

The Jungle Brothers trap call quite Big Daddy King to public enemy, hello cool jack. He's one of the few artists that I've ever seen in my career say, hey, I'm gonna sell the Jungle Brothers trap called class Big Daddy Kane to Public Enemy, hello cool job.

SPEAKER_00 58:32

I repeat, hold on for a minute. I repeat, it will be an it will be another it will never be another Chris Lighty. It will never be.

SPEAKER_02 58:38

The Jungle Brothers trap called Quest Big Daddy Kane to Public Enemy, Hello Cool J. 50 is one of the few artists that I've ever seen in my career say, hey, I'm gonna sell 10 million albums. Buster rhymes, brand new bands, because I don't want to deal with leaders in those clubs like just Buster Rhymes, Davis Hall of Course, everything I can. I had the privilege to work with some really great artists back and fortunately I can read.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:31

I didn't feel like I could be honest about my kids. I didn't feel like I could be honest about people that I was in business with, and I had the pressure of still having to. And I needed to talk to somebody and try to help get a navigation to help me reach to the destination, and I needed to reach to get out of that to get back to my happiness and my peace of mind. Whatever happened to what happened downstairs, because that's where his body was.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:15

The medical examiner has rolled the death of hip-hop level Chris Lady is a sick.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:20

The first thing I see is he over $5 million. He doesn't five million dollars.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:26

Again, the sources also tell me the lady was not deep in the bottomless financial hole, and that he had just secured a world tour for 50 cents for next year, which would have bought millions of dollars.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:39

At the time that I'm actually getting the phone call from him, right before he passed away, he's saying, yo, that's already dealt with. Talk to you people because all that money is all back now. He gave me back the million dollars.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:51

All of the unanswered questions, whenever you're in the gray areas because something ain't really alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:56

Leading people to question who would want to shoot Chris.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:06

We do things different podcasts. Chris Lighty, Lighty Brothers, R P to U Chris Lighty. I love you, brother. Peace and love. Tomorrow we have Puff Daddy, man. Untold stories of P. Diddy. Tomorrow, APM. Peace and love.