Rodney C.

Founder @gstatehiphop Featured in: @billboard + @djbooth + @hot97 + @njdotcom + @asburyparkpress PR: music & more

[NEON @neonrated]

You are cordially invited to “the most thrilling party of the year.”

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. Conceived and filmed by genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves. Directed by David Greaves. In select theaters October 16.

[𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 @andrejgee]

no offense to anyone but this story was my idea. shoutout to okp for being down to run it 🙌🏿

this piece is my ‘the extra mile’ column that i’ll be doing with OKP monthly. it’s also in my newsletter. just important for me to clarify these days

[𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 @andrejgee]

i wrote this. feel free to share in the midst of complaining about the lack of rap editorial 😃

[Cousin Tino ™️ @TINOISFUNNY]

🚨 According To Music Business Worldwide, Larry Jackson’s Gamma Has Filed A Lawsuit To Unmask The Creators Behind Alleged Smear Websites 👀

Gamma reportedly filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court accusing anonymous individuals of running an online defamation campaign targeting the company and its CEO, Larry Jackson.

The lawsuit seeks to identify whoever created the websites:
• https://t.co/DkkjCmm0k6
• https://t.co/ddd08UvSG1

According to the filing, the sites accused Gamma and Larry Jackson of:
📉 Streaming fraud
💰 Embezzlement
📊 Financial mismanagement
🤖 Using bots to inflate sales numbers

Gamma claims the allegations are completely false and describes the campaign as “reputational warfare.”

The lawsuit also alleges:
• Hundreds of X accounts created in December 2025 amplified the websites within minutes of each other
• The campaign may have involved AI-generated content and bot networks
• A Reddit account allegedly posted identical language found on the websites before being banned

One major accusation mentioned in the complaint claimed Kanye West’s “Bully” album numbers were inflated through bots. The sites also allegedly accused Gamma of mishandling investor money and inflating numbers for artists like Mariah Carey.

Gamma says it conducted forensic investigations but could not identify the individuals behind the campaign without legal action.

The company is now seeking:
⚖️ Compensatory damages
⚖️ Punitive damages
🛑 Removal of the websites
👨🏽‍⚖️ A jury trial

Larry Jackson launched Gamma in 2023 after previously serving as the Global Creative Director of Apple Music. The company received backing from major investors including Eldridge Industries, Apple, and A24, and later secured a reported $100 million investment that valued Gamma at $400 mil

[HotNewHipHop @HotNewHipHop]

Music executive Larry Jackson, founder and CEO of gamma, reportedly filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court over an alleged coordinated online defamation campaign targeting himself and his company.

According to Music Business Worldwide, Jackson is seeking to uncover the anonymous individuals responsible for allegedly launching two websites that accused the company of financial misconduct, streaming manipulation, and misuse of investor money.

[♪♪🎧ྀི ⋆.ೃ࿔🌸*:･♪♪ MetalFlowerz ♪♪⋆.ೃ࿔🌸*:･🎧ྀི♪♪ @WALASIA]

Okay so y'all do know that HipHopDX was bought out by Warner Music Group in 2020, right??

It was part of the acquisition with Uproxx.

Then somehow Uproxx bought IT and made something called Uproxx studios out of all of it.

And U know who owns all that stuff right?

He used to also own Rawkus Records. Long, long time back when your Great Auntie was young and fine...

Also this cat named Rich Antonielli, who they're calling the founder of complex ... which is SO ODD because I definitely co-founded Complex with my family from STRESS Magazine and we built it from scratch when it had nothing but an idea of a name - Complex Media - and it was a video magazine that lived on "hangtags" of Ecko Unltd clothing on sale in Macy's or wherever.

I know this for sure because - I WAS THERE and it was built off my back, and the backs of a few of my close friends - before we became mercenaries for complex we used to create revolutionary articles and print media with no regard for corporate sponsors or advertisers or major labels or capitalists of any kind.

Anyhoo... yeah. Big Media sucks and blows like any other "big" anything and if U have lost your whole online portfolio because of someone's poor decisions this week I empathize and I always feel bad when treasure troves of Hip Hop journalism and reviews and photos and history are lost because some millionaire was glazing some billionaire and no one actually cared about this beautiful, vibrant, impossible-to-kill Culture which shall always proceed and continue by any means necessary.

https://t.co/sPww3bu3RC

[steven j. horowitz @speriod]

rip https://t.co/CpPDhYb22U, part of the foundation of my career... lots to say about how things went down there, but it was a crucial vein on the internet for a long time. sad to see every byline gone.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[BOXING n BBQ @BOXINGnBBQ]

Oscar DeLaHoya just testified in front of The U.S. Senate against The Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act.

He brings up UFC lawsuits and the Saudi Arabia funding.

Below is the full speech:

[Erik Magraken @erikmagraken]

This man hit it out of the ballpark.

Muhammad Ali would be proud of his grandson.

Speaking truth to power.

[Rodney C. @RodGSHH]

@Chuckisdope @SirMichaelRocks They’re the easiest to exploit.

[Raheem Palmer @iamrahstradamus]

There’s nothing wrong with him not liking Memphis. That’s fine but to be on a golf course with your white buddies code switching and trashing the blackest city in the NBA, talking about how they need to move & pull resources from the the city despite its rich cultural history in civil rights and music is problematic, particularly when you and Nike released a sneaker inspired by & attempting to capitalize off Dr MLK and the Lorraine Motel. Also this man spoke about NASCAR, Vanderbilt and Hockey, things he doesn’t care about as a selling point for why the Grizzlies should move to Nashville. Bron doesn’t care about any of these things, he was pandering to his friends and that’s corny to me particularly when you’re trashing a city that played such a pivotal role in the civil rights movement. Sometimes it’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.

[Rodney C. @RodGSHH]

@JerryBrewer Great piece!

[Jerry Brewer @JerryBrewer]

What the Geno Auriemma-Dawn Staley confrontation was really about.

My column on the wild scene at the Final Four and Geno's escalation of the fiercest rival in women's college basketball:

https://t.co/Q5UQepXmJ3

[Stephen A Smith @stephenasmith]

That was some straight B.S. from the GREAT Geno Auriemma. Never — ever — thought I’d see the day when the greatest woman’s college coach in history would go down so CLASSLESSLY!!! Horrible look, and should be called out for it. He got OUTCOACHED. Plain and simple. And gets in her face like she did something wrong to him instead of being gracious. Had Dawn Staley acted like that we would be all over her. #HorribleGENO!

[Complex Music @ComplexMusic]

Watch the full interview with Shyne on Complex News YouTube:

https://t.co/yzN5KPG68k

[Deascent 🗽 @Deascent]

If Smackdown was still on UPN, Trick Williams would’ve had a guest appearance on ‘Moesha’.

[HUS KINGPIN @HusKingpin]

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[brian b.dot™️ miller @bdotTM]

i’d rather listen to “rappers delight”.