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D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby Amaranthine » Nov 9th, '12, 15:54

CHART-TOPPING rap group D12, famed for its links with bad-boy music star Eminem, is being sued in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.

The liquidators of this year's Heatwave Festival have launched action against the Detroit-based group for no-showing the January event. Liquidators Martin Lewis and Tim Mableson want D12 to immediately refund the $35,475.73 it was given to perform and pay court costs and interest.

D12, also known as The Dirty Dozen, achieved mainstream success after Eminem rose to international fame.

Other members of the group include Kuniva, Bizarre, Kon Artis and the late Proof, who died in 2006.

Their albums Devil's Night and D12 World debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Top 200 chart, and songs including Fight Music and Purple Pills were highly successful.

D12 was due to perform at the three-day Heatwave Festival at Middleton in January, then at events in other states.

That month The Advertiser reported the group had "reportedly missed its flight" and therefore the festival.

In their statement of claim, Mr Lewis and Mr Mableson say D12 breached its contract.

"On or around November 2, 2011, the defendants entered into an agreement with Heatwave's organisers (and) were paid two instalments of $US18,000," they assert.

"The defendants failed to perform at three of the festivals, in breach of the agreement. (We) are entitled to a refund of the total monies paid."

Yesterday Luke Rowley, for the liquidators, asked for leave to issue summons to the group's US management.

Under South Australian law, parties can issue proceedings interstate or overseas only with the permission of a court.

"I also need to liaise with the court registry to determine what the costs of doing that might be," Mr Rowley said.

Magistrate Simon Milazzo gave Mr Rowley 42 days to compile his documentation and ordered that the matter return to court later this month for a status hearing.

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The contrast between 35k and the millions Em gets paid per show is astounding.
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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby AbramIsaac » Nov 10th, '12, 01:15

Motherfuckers can't even come together for 35 grand anymore...7k apiece.

That shit would buy Swifty a used van.
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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby SliK » Nov 10th, '12, 08:21

Eminem is payed up to $5,000,000 per performance.
D12 is payed $35,475.73.
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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby Amaranthine » Nov 10th, '12, 08:27

SliK wrote:Eminem is payed up to $5,000,000 per performance.
D12 is payed $35,475.73.

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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby SliK » Nov 10th, '12, 08:34

Amaranthine wrote:
SliK wrote:Eminem is payed up to $5,000,000 per performance.
D12 is payed $35,475.73.

*paid

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Postby 12characters » Nov 10th, '12, 08:34

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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby Amaranthine » Nov 10th, '12, 08:36

SliK wrote:
Amaranthine wrote:
SliK wrote:Eminem is payed up to $5,000,000 per performance.
D12 is payed $35,475.73.

*paid

Y u mad doe? :unsure:

Nope. Just had the urge to correct that.
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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby SliK » Nov 10th, '12, 08:37

You must have a lot of friends ;)
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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby SliK » Nov 10th, '12, 22:10

Geno wrote:
SliK wrote:Eminem is payed up to $5,000,000 per performance.
D12 is payed $35,475.73.

They're all rich, it doesn't matter anymore what they get paid.

Lol, they're not rich. They charge like $1500 a verse or some shit and get payed (yup, "payed") $7k each per performance. That sounds broke as fuck to me.
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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby SliK » Nov 11th, '12, 04:42

Yeah and MC Hammer has a fucking diamond plaque and he's broke as shit too.

I assure you anyone who is rich doesn't steal $35k lmao
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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby Amaranthine » Nov 11th, '12, 05:05

I just thought it was interesting that as a multi-platinum group, they were only paid $35k for this.
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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

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Re: D12 in hot water over Heatwave Festival no-show

Postby SliK » Nov 11th, '12, 05:13

Amaranthine wrote:I just thought it was interesting that as a multi-platinum group, they were only paid $35k for this.

You're right, it's interesting.

But you know they only have about 10 fans, and the rest were all Eminem fans, right?
I mean Devil's Night was great (Em killed at and carried it. Proof was definitely great too. His revelation verse was pure fire). D12 World was so shit lmao. And since then nobody has given a shit.
I understand you, Geno, Menzo and TRex are big fans but you are far far far from the majority, even on this very website

I think it's more interesting that they took the money (despite how little it was) and didn't show up. That would have really pissed off their 10 fans that bothered to show up just for them.

The most interesting thing of all is how you and Geno reacted when I pointed that out.
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