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Tribe Called Quest Hit #1 In Top 200 After 20 Years; Street Named For Phife Dawg
The Game Ordered To Pay Contestant $7M
The Game has been or- dered to pay $7 million to a woman who claimed he sexu- ally assaulted her while she was a participant on his real- ity show.
After a jury ruled against the Compton rapper in favor of Priscilla Rainey, the judg- ment has been revealed that he owes her $7.13 million, ac- cording to TMZ.
Rainey first filed the case in August of last year, seeking $10 million after she claimed that he sexually assaulted her
The Game and Priscilla Rainey.
during what she thought was a required after hours date while taping She Got Game. She alleged that The Game got drunk and high and forced
“his hand inside her dress to rub her bare vagina and but- tocks.”
The Game is reportedly planning to appeal the ruling.
Tribe Called Quest #1 on Billboard 200 Chart.
Family and friends at street naming for Phife Dawg, who died in March due to complications from diabetes.
Tribe Called Quest has achieved a remarkable event in its already storied history, their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in more than 20 years.
We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service is predicted to push about 120,000 equivalent album units and a fitting swan song for the group’s final studio album.
The album also marks the final time fans will hear the late Phife Dawg spitting bars. The rap legend died in March from complications from diabetes.
To go along with the good news musically, Phife Dawg has been immortalized with a street co-named in his honor. During the Saturday afternoon ceremony, Linden Boulevard was co-named as Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor Way at the intersection of 192nd Street in the Saint Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York City.
The No. 1 slot comprises of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums and streaming equivalent albums. The formal sales charts will emerge. Nov. 20.
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