Akademiks Just Risked it All Exposing Roc Nation

➡ Rock Nation, a major record label, is being accused of using its influence to manipulate the music industry, including the downfall of certain artists. DJ Academics, who supported Tory in the Meg trial, claims that Rock Nation is behind these actions and has been targeted by them as a result. Academics was subpoenaed by Meg’s lawyers to attend a deposition, where he exposed Rock Nation’s alleged tactics. This controversy has sparked discussions about the power dynamics within the music industry.
➡ The text discusses a legal dispute involving music industry figures, including Megan Thee Stallion and Rock Nation CEO, Desiree Perez. The author suggests that Rock Nation and Perez are manipulating the situation, possibly to harm other industry figures like Drake. The text also includes a detailed account of a deposition, where the author defends his belief that Tory Lanez, who was convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion, was wrongfully convicted. The author argues that there was reasonable doubt in the case, and he disagrees with the jury’s verdict.
➡ The speaker believes that Megan Thee Stallion is not truthful about an incident where she was allegedly shot, despite a jury’s conviction. They also suggest that Roc Nation, a music company, is using the legal system to intimidate and silence critics. The speaker also reveals that they are paid by major record labels to promote artists, which they believe could compromise their credibility. They express concern about going against these powerful entities in the music industry.

Ever since the Tory vs Megtra, people have been looking at Rock Nation differently. While they are considered one of the most successful and influential record labels in hip-hop, they have earned themselves another more sinister reputation. Gay keepers who decide who shall rise and who shall fall in the industry. Many people believe that Rock Nation might have played a part in not only the incarceration of Tory lanes, but also the downfall of many other artists in the industry. In many situations in the past few years, there have been a trail of bread crumbs that always seem to lead back to Rock Nation.

Just like we saw with the Meg vs Tory trial, it seems that once Rock Nation sets their eyes on you, you gotta be real careful what you say and do. This is something that DJ Academics has learned first hand. As after he chose Tory in the Meg trial, Rock Nation has gone after him. They’re dragging him into a lawsuit to teach him a lesson. Recently, Academics was subpoenaed by Meg’s lawyers to attend a deposition. The only thing is, they didn’t expect Academics to expose them publicly. As Academics went live and showed proof that could suggest, Rock Nation could be behind this entire Tory lanes takedown.

Hey guys, I hope all is well. Welcome back to the truth is where I drop new videos exposing the truth weekly. In today’s episode we will be talking about Academics exposing Rock Nation. Let’s get right into it. At this point we all know just how Rock Nation gets down. They’re one of the most connected music companies in the business. We all saw just how connected they were when the CEO of Rock Nation Desiree Perez was exposed by her own daughter for trying to allegedly get her own daughter’s boyfriend arrested. Desiree Perez’s daughter showed evidence that her own mother had connections with law enforcement.

Also connections with the healthcare field and even with powerful judges. Desiree Perez was essentially caught using her wealth and connections to institutionalize her daughter and incarcerate her boyfriend. This is the technique that Rock Nation as a company seems to utilize to get rid of their problems. The same techniques many people believe they used against Tory lanes. Love them or hate them one person who has always called this out was no other than DJ Academics. I know that for many reasons a lot of people don’t like Academics. I myself have been critical of Academics in the past but I have to give credit where credit is due.

Academics has always claimed that Tory was innocent and has inferred that Rock Nation was the one who set him up. Now whether he says this because him and Tory are friends or because of some other reason that’s up to you to decide. Regardless he has always called this out and it now seems he’s paying the price for it. It seems that Rock Nation set their sights on Academics back during the Tory and Meg trial. During the trial Academics was covering all the breaking news and seemed to favor Tory with his coverage.

At one point he was even accused of leaking trial information and was even called out for it by Meg’s lawyers and the judge. Another thing that Academics did was shine a spotlight on a smaller blogger named Milagros. Milagros was also covering the Tory lanes at Meg trial as it was unfolding. She attended several trial days and reported back what she heard and gave her opinion on it. Academics for whatever reason decided to not only start showing her Tory coverage on his streams but eventually even collaborated on content with her. Academics not only invited her onto a stream so they could talk about the trial but he also interviewed their first off the record podcast.

This put more eyes on Milagros and people started going to her for updates on the trial. Eventually the trial ended and Tory was found guilty by the jury. Milagros was one of the main people speaking out claiming that she felt Tory was set up. This eventually got her in trouble. When Megan Thee Stallion announced she was going after the blogger for defaming her. In October 2024, Meg sued Milagros claiming she not only defamed her but did it for money, accusing her of being a Tory lanes paid mouthpiece. Meg claimed that Milagros received money from Tory to slander her name.

During the course of this lawsuit unfolding, Academics was eventually dragged into it when he was subpoenaed by Meg and Roc Nation’s lawyers. Roc Nation’s lawyers claimed they wanted to question Academics because they believe he might have proof that Milagros was being paid by Tory to slander Meg. When Academics attended the deposition, he quickly noticed this wasn’t only about Milagros being paid by Tory, but Roc Nation trying not only to punk him but also get him to expose information about their rivals in the music industry. Showing us exactly how Roc Nation is using the legal system in the courts to do their bidding.

During the deposition, Roc Nation’s lawyers questioned Academics about his dealings with other artists like Nicki Minaj and Drake. This is something Academics further witnessed when Meg’s lawyers accidentally shared their screen with their private chats between the lawyers at the deposition. Academics showed Meg’s lawyers not only talking down on him, but he also found proof of Desiree Perez’s involvement. Academics showed their chats where they not only had points about asking about OVO, but also he saw a message where one of the lawyers literally states, Tell Des, he couldn’t even wait for the deposition to be over to talk about it.

Obviously they were referring to Desiree Perez, clearly reporting back to her about what was going down during this deposition. Anyway, they’re going through a civil case, they’re accusing Milagro Cooper of defamation. And because, and this is my opinion, because Meg is signed to Roc Nation, Roc Nation, I’ve told you, it’s one of the scummiest places. Like, they have a lot of things and access to it. Like, for example, they don’t like Drake, they don’t like this, they don’t like that. And they’re finding ways to try to get dirt on everybody. In this particular defamation case, I haven’t spoken on text messages with Milagro in probably over a year, maybe two.

We don’t text. We met one time in person, we did a podcast. We’ve had a professional relationship, but it’s barely been any communication yet. They were insistent on trying to drag me into this, not necessarily, I believe, for that, but because of other, you know, maybe cross-collateralized goals that they might have. Anyway, I think they knew twofold what was gonna happen. Maybe they thought they could get some information from me or get me to say stuff that whatever fit their agenda. But I think they knew. You get ACUP in there. I got a big mouth.

They ain’t nothing secret with me. They ain’t nothing secret with me, okay? So, you ain’t got a way for the transcript when it comes to ACUP. This is a top law firm, Jay-Z, you know, Quinn and Manny, that’s a law firm. By the way, I went toe to toe with him, no lawyer with me, I was just there. I’m just there waiting, you know what I mean? If you want to know who are these people, this is a court reporter type in. This is the main lawyer that is operating from Quinn and Manny.

Well, on this particular case for Megan Pete, this lawyer here, which you’re going to see how interested it is because we got their names. We can Google them, Google them. She works at Quinn and Manny. Matter of fact, let’s Google them now. Marie, this is her right here. Let’s go to her Instagram, shall we? This is her right here. Team Rock. Don’t have to look too far to see what Team Rock is, okay? We don’t have to look too far. We don’t have to look too far. So, they asked to put up an exhibit.

They said, hey, exhibit girl, because you put up an exhibit that we want to show ACUP. Shorty, instead of putting up the exhibit, shows her screen. And I see the chat. I see the chat of the conversation happening with the lawyers. Oh! Oh! You want to see? Here’s the screenshot here. Bam! Quinn Emanuel, look at this. Look, I don’t know why they’re talking about OVO. What is OVO? I don’t know why Quinn Emanuel in their Slack, I think it’s a Slack, is saying O-V-O. I don’t know. Then, the other one says, Marie Goode, I got more than we thought we would on that.

Just make sure you’re sharing the right screen. So, she did it once. And the other ones are saying, you shared the wrong screen. Look, I’m talking to Aerof. They said, if he won’t shut the up, I’m never getting through this. Yeah, I had a lot to say. It’s the interesting part. Tell Des. By the way, I posted, we had a break. I told him I wouldn’t be on my phone while I’m answering questions. But these lawyers, they couldn’t either hold their bladder or something while we were doing it. They’re like, yo, we need some more time.

We got to go to the bathroom. I’m like, damn. Yo, what y’all got in the cafeteria? Up there at the Rotten Nation lawyer offices. She says, and this is where I realized we got you. Y’all are liars. Tell Des. If you’re the lawyer for Megan Peep, why would you need to tell Des? Who’s Des? The only Des that I know, and I could be wrong. Desiree Perez, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Rotten Nation. So, you did this. So, with y’all sitting there with me for seven hours claiming that y’all had zero, zero affiliation.

And that yes, even if y’all did represent Rotten Nation, this is a mega stallion thing. My conduct in that deposition, y’all are in an internal chat reporting, go tell Rotten Nation CEO this. Academics is posting about the deposition. Come on, gang. Come on. When I tell y’all that Rotten Nation, Desiree Perez, and my belief is lining the whole industry up, and everything, even the mega stallion, the Hallie Bailey’s other world. If you connect it to Rotten Nation, trust me, they’re cooking up some type of poisonous secret sauce to get your ass.

Y’all think I’m lying? Well, here it is in 4K. The lawyers of Megan’s the stallion, because I posted, yo, I posted a story saying, yo, I’m in this deposition, they’re asking about Drake. She says, tell Des, I said he couldn’t get to the end of the depot without posting about it. All these names, you know, it’ll be interesting to figure out who these people are. Kayla Fleming, Julian Scholom, Joseph Bauchy. They’re probably pretty good. They’re probably pretty good, guys. I have nothing wrong with Quinn Emanuel, but I could tell that Rotten Nation is a puppeteer pulling them strings.

That’s not on to y’all chat. This particular deposition, I’m not a defendant. I’m not an involved party. They claim that I might have discoverable evidence. That’s why they have subpoenaed me. And the subpoena required me to do a deposition that they should have been asking me about my knowledge of any information that could help or hurt the defendant or the plaintiff. And the people they asked me about was people like Nicki Minaj, Drizzy Drake. Hey, did Drake ever pay you? Did he ever do this? In the deposition from Meg, they’re saying tell Deseret.

This was very interesting and extremely revealing. While Rock Nation and Deseret Perez have denied the rumors of being involved in the takedown of Tori, it’s strange to see Meg’s lawyers talking about reporting back directly to Deseret Perez. Why does the CEO of a massive company like Rock Nation have so much interest in a lawsuit filed by Meg against a random blogger? In my opinion, Deseret is deeply involved in this Tori takedown. We always hear her name when things like this happen. I wonder why? Also, it’s interesting to see Rock Nation trying to gather dirt on Drake after Drake sues UMG, which is in a partnership with Rock Nation.

I know people think Rock Nation is an independent label owned and operated by Jay-Z, but that is not the case. A simple Google search would reveal that Rock Nation is under UMG, the same label Drake is suing. Now, all of a sudden, Rock Nation’s lawyers are asking questions about Drake. It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. Like I said in my video about Drake’s lawsuit against UMG, they’re going to find any way to bring Drake down. During the deposition, they eventually began talking about the Megan Thee Stallion trial where we can see exactly what the lawyers were there for.

They not only wanted to intimidate academics and get information out of him they can use against their rivals, but also force him into a corner where he would be forced to backtrack on what he said about Megan in the past. They were almost trying to force him to say Tori was guilty. But surprisingly, academics didn’t back down and instead told Meg’s lawyers to their face that he believed Meg’s a bold-faced liar. Can you say that you and he believed that his incarceration was— Counsel, please get closer to the mic. Sorry.

When you say the— Let’s try this again. When you say that you and him have had conversations about his incarceration not being that fair, you’re referring to Mr. Lane’s incarceration? I don’t know. I didn’t say we had conversations. I said our disposition. I think we have similar dispositions. I didn’t say we talked about it. I said, I along with him believe he’s unfairly. I mean, I think we don’t need to have a conversation about it. He has filed multiple appeals. And me personally, I have, in my personal opinion, I think his incarceration is BS.

Yeah, and unfair, yes. And by unfair, you mean unjust? Yes. And by unjust, would you say wrongfully convicted? Yes. What’s your basis to believe that he was wrongfully convicted? The basis would be, you know, I sat through and watched. I thought the burden of proof was on the prosecutor to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Tori Lane’s was not only in possession of a weapon but shot Ms. Pete. And I had a lot of doubt. There was a lot of doubt that I thought was more than reasonable. So under that premise, I don’t see or I couldn’t stand behind a decision to put somebody in jail for 10 years when there is more than what I believe is reasonable doubt that he didn’t commit these crimes.

So, you know, from there, I’m not going to agree with any type of incarceration of him. You thought that there was sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction against him until after the trial concluded? Or did you speak on it during the duration of the trial? Oh, definitely spoken during the duration. When people watching me give an opinion or cover a trial, it’s definitely rooted in how I see it mixed with, hey, listen, these are the facts. From the get-go, I definitely thought, hey, listen, this is a crack of BS. The get-go where the victim was supposedly, I felt like she was just lying.

I felt like she was an it relied on her testimony along with a couple of things from what I see, but her testimony definitely was an important fact. Just to interject real quick, when you say a couple other things, you mean other evidence that was admitted at trial and considered by the jury during the criminal trial, right? Yes. Right. Like both fragments pulled from her feet, right, at surgery? Look, I was trying to question again. She just objected to form. That’s okay. It’s not an objection during a deposition, but okay. One of the forms of evidence is metallic fragments that were pulled from Miss Pete’s feet after surgery that was admitted into trial, right? Yes.

I mean, I could broadly lay out why I feel that way, unless you’re trying to get me to agree or disagree with each single point. And I’ll sum it up for you. I’m going to think someone is a liar when they get pulled over by the police and they tell the police, I stepped on glass. And it doesn’t come out later until you’re mad. I like to say all those things because people’s objectives change over time. So if I was supposed to believe this person who ends up being a star witness, when she first gets pulled over, she stepped on glass.

If I was supposed to believe her in trial, when she now hates this guy and we all know, and again, I’m saying we all know, but I’m saying it from just a societal perspective. Listen, there’s no girlfriend that’s going to have a bad breakup with you and then go say, this guy is the best guy ever. Stories are always going to change, perspective change. Then she says, no, he shot me. So again, I’m going off of those things and I like to believe women. So when she tells me one thing and then she tells me another, I don’t know what to believe, right? And to me, that’s doubt already.

That’s doubt. Okay. Well, let me ask you this question and you didn’t even go to a single day of the trial in person, correct? No. Okay. And you understand that after the trial, the jury came to a verdict, right? I mean, that’s how trials go. A verdict is usually- Right. And in this case, a jury did come to a verdict, correct? Yes, they did. They convicted them. I still disagree. That’s right. And they came to that conclusion unanimously, right? Yes. And I still disagree. Okay. But unanimity means that all 12 jury members signed onto the same verdict, correct? Yes.

After hearing all of the evidence, all 12 individual members of the jury agreed that the prosecution had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Tory Lane shot Meghan Thee Stallion on June 12th, 2020, right? So I’ve never argued what- Allen, it’s a yes or no question. Yes, but it’s a non-sequitur because I’ve never said- It’s not a non-sequitur, Mr. Allen. It’s a question. No, it’s a non-sequitur because just starting from what I said, I said what I believe, you’re telling me what the jury did. Me and the jury are not the same people.

So for example, only the acquitted of murder, but there are reasonable people who believe he did it. I don’t have to accept what the jury said just because it was unanimous and they saw, quote, quote, all of the testimony. Also, I don’t even believe that. That’s part of his entire appeal. We have three- What’s part of his entire appeal? What’s part of his entire appeal? Well, there’s evidence and testimony that I think is- Let me lay this out. Meghan Thee Stallion is a flat-out liar, in my opinion. What’s your basis for saying that she’s a flat-out liar? I’ve seen her say something on Gayle King and then when it came to being questioned by the prosecutors and being on a stand, she said something different.

If that’s not a lie, you tell me what it is. Okay. So she was clearly intoxicated that night. I don’t think that’s something we have to debate. Kelsey, intoxicated that night, okay? Tori, intoxicated that night. The only person that was not intoxicated, the only person I wanted to hear, I don’t want to hear from the drunk people, the only person that was sober that night was Daquan or whatever his name is, Daquan, Jayquan. He is the person I want to hear. Again, from what I’ve seen, Tori’s team, they definitely fumbled that because they should have had him testify, he didn’t testify.

But if I’m a person, again, I’m not saying if we didn’t accept the jury’s decision, we would have went to break him out of jail. And we’re talking about we as a collective in terms of the people of the United States. But we accept that a jury, when they do their job, they do their job. So we accept all their decisions. Doesn’t mean that we have to agree with the conclusion they came to. No one’s saying the jury didn’t come to a unanimous decision, convicted him. What we’re saying is, despite that, we believe that he’s being held in jail.

And maybe I need to define this. When I say unfairly, we don’t believe or I don’t believe that he shot this woman as the stories presented via how the trial went down. And you know, What is your basis? So what I fail to understand is, as somebody who did not sit through the trial, did not hear through all the evidence, what is your basis for your belief that he did not shoot Megan Thee Stallion, although a jury of 12 who hurt all the admissible evidence. All right. So, Mr. Allen, what I was asking was, can you explain to me the basis for your belief that Mr.

Lane’s did not actually shoot Megan Thee Stallion when in point of fact, a juror jury of 12 determined that based on all the evidence that they heard that he did. Ma’am, I’ll answer the question, but I feel like we are going to circles. I flat out stated that, again, I could lay out 20 points if you want to just consume and eat up time having me do that. But the initial basis of me believing that this did not happen as how yes, he is convicted is because I believe Meg Thee Stallion is a liar.

She lied initially. She lied on the national news. And I am skeptical that the truth finally came out in court. Based on that, there are alternate theories that I feel and is suggested that that is more a, you know, and again, this is from my perspective. So we’re not, we’re not, we’re not, I’m not sitting here saying the jury did not. Okay, we accept. There’s alternate theories other than him shooting her. That would even substantiate why, first of all, maybe he’s just the worst shot in the world. If he’s shooting a chick and now and shot five times, not one of them directly connected.

It’s hard for me to think it’s a man and a woman. I get it. As you can see, the lawyer gets very defensive when Meg was called out. She went on the attack almost immediately, even when academics repeatedly said it was just his opinion and he didn’t believe her because she was a liar. This again shows how Roc Nation is taking advantage of the legal system to intimidate and force people into submission. That’s why they have no issues with coming after Milagro and suing her for money she likely doesn’t even have. It’s all about teaching a lesson and trying to keep people from talking about them.

They want to bully people like me, covering their disturbing ways, letting us know that they have no issues coming even after smaller platforms that expose them. They want us silenced. Now, while academics expose Roc Nation with his deposition, he also kind of exposed himself, admitting multiple times that he is just a paid mouthpiece for the labels. During the deposition, academics admit the obvious that I’ve been saying for years now, he gets paid by all the major record labels in order to promote and market their artists on his platform. I haven’t already told you about this morning that has paid you to promote one of their artists.

That pretty much encapsulates all of them, right? I said UMG, Sony, Warner. Those are the three record labels that control 85% of all active. And by the way, I think everybody knows this, right? There’s no secret that’s happening here where you’re like, oh my God, I’ve worked with Interscope, I’ve worked with Republic, I’ve worked with everybody, Def Jam. I’ve worked with Def Jam a lot. You feel me? I’ve worked with Atlantic. If you’re breaking news, thinking that, or thinking I’m about to be lying about, oh, I’ve never worked with labels. No, I love working with labels.

They’ve been a part of my business for a good while. Now, I understand that he is running a business and it’s how he makes money. But it does make him disingenuous and untrustworthy when he’s taking money from labels to promote artists. As if he’s taking money to promote an artist, his coverage of music isn’t authentic. It is influenced by monetary compensation. Realistically, some or all of his coverage could be theoretically paid for by the labels, making him a part of the very corrupt machine that operates in the music industry. Academics allowed his greed to get the best of him because at the beginning, he was making a living of just making content about his opinion of hip hop.

But then he started selling his opinion to the labels with the most money. It destroyed his credibility. And in a way, it’s a form of selling out. This is why academics won’t back Drake in this lawsuit against UMG. Academics knows if he takes Drake’s side, he’s done in the music industry. As UMG is the biggest label in hip hop and likely has paid academics millions of dollars, he doesn’t want to get on their bad side and lose all that money. Honestly though, I am surprised he is willing to go against Roc Nation as he’s openly admitted to fearing them several times.

Either way, I think it’s good that Roc Nation is finally being exposed. They are obviously the new gatekeepers in hip hop and are using their power for all the wrong reasons. I want to know what you guys think about this below. I want to thank you all for watching and I’ll see you guys in the next one. [tr:trw].