Ok this will seem kinda tin foily. But I had some thoughts. The tip line stuff is purposefully crazy so that the real stuff sounds stupid. But standing back looking at all this especially with what we know this shyt is weird. Especially the relationship between Jay and Weinstein.
Before the hardcore Jigga fans come for me
Listen I like Jay but putting aside my love of him as an artist. The question needs to be asked how do you hang around with so many powerful rapists and abusers? And not get up to any dirt yourself?
That shyt not suspect to anyone else? I'll give you 1 guy. But multiple guys especially Weinstein who has had rumors about him out since the mid 90s.
We already know about Jay and Diddy.
But If you want to know why Jay Z and Harvey would be hanging out together in the 90s. The connection is probably
Brett Ratner. He got kicked out of Hollywood when me too hit. And has been keeping a very low profile until very recently.
In fact most of this shyt leads back to and around Brett Ratner. Ratner also knew Epstein and the French sleazeball Jean-Luc Brunel
(who also conveniently committed suicide in his jail cell in 2022) who allegedly provided young models to rich men like Epstein who funded his model agency and Ratner to provide for other men to rape and abuse.
Diddy and Ratner were the bridge between the worlds of music and film. Both of them are beyond debauched.
Pic from 2011 Brian Grazer, Trump, Ratner, Melania and Diddy
If you know Brett Ratner and his activities well. I've posted about him on the Coli since 2018. How he would have very underage looking euro chicks (Knowing what we know now probably supplied by Jean-Luc Brunel ) come through to the film production suites in London to 'hang out' with him and his coked out Arab film investor friends. How under no circumstances were any female staff members allowed to be left alone with him and his entourage. If you hung around with Ratner you knew how he got down.
He was Diddys friend as well, they've known each other for over 30 years. Brett Ratner is best known as the director of The Rush Hour movies but well before that he was the golden boy music video director for Uptown Records among others. In the 90s he did classic videos for Redman, Jodeci, Mary J, D'Angelo and Heavy D.
This an article from the NYT
May 12, 1996 well worth reading.
MARY J. BLIGE needed a new image for the video of her cover of Aretha Franklin's "Natural Woman." One that would soften her testy, temperamental, hard-core persona, yet one that would play up her long-hidden feminine side. So Andre Harrell, then the president of Uptown Records, called in "the Rat."
The Rat is Brett Ratner, a 25-year-old director of urban music videos, whose work over the last two years has created a buzz among record company executives
Hip Hops Video Doctor
Andre Harrel loved him, so did Clive Davis, someone else very important currently hiding out in Bali on the run from sexual assault allegations was gushing over him as well.
Russell Simmons, the president of Def Jam Records, said: "Brett has an understanding of both worlds. He understands that the street culture and suburban culture on some levels are not that different at all."
In 1997 Brett Ratner directed a certain video by Foxy Brown for a song that would go on to be a smash hit.
That year he also directed a now legendary video by the Wu Tang Clan who are also strangely connected to this in a roundabout way (We'll come back to them later)
In 2002 Brett Ratner produced Paid In Full along with Dame and Jay and the distributors were Dimension Films a part of Miramax Films which was run by Harvey and his brother Bob who co-produced the film. In 2017 Dame (Probably because Jay was doing a documentary with Harvey ) said he slapped Harvey on the set but then backtracked on that. It should be noted Jay was tight with Harvey up until the first public accusations came out in October 2017.
That year was also interesting as earlier that year in January, Jay and Harvey had a documentary the excellent
Time: The Kalief Browder Story that they produced together and were showing at Sundance, they did a shyt ton of publicity together for it.
Although It was always strange how involved on the front end Harvey was on this, he rarely was this front facing for anything, preferring to do his work in the shadows and at luncheons, he even shut down an interview with Democracy Now when they asked Jay about Trump and described him and Jay as friends.
Weinstein was in town promoting Jay Z’s docuseries Time: The Kalief Browder Story about New York City teenager Kalief Browder, who committed suicide in 2015 after being sent to Rikers jail at age 16 and held for three years, much of that time in solitary confinement. I was able to speak to Jay Z about Kalief, about Rikers, until Harvey Weinstein ended the interview.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you think Rikers should be closed?
JAY Z: Oh, man. Well, if anything like that is happening, if one kid—if that happens to one kid, any place that that can happen to any kid should be closed.
AMY GOODMAN: And your thoughts on Donald Trump and what it means for—
JAY Z: I’m not going to answer that.
AMY GOODMAN: —or, no, what it means for mass incarceration?
HARVEY WEINSTEIN: All right, guys, that’s enough. Let’s go. You know what? This is a labor of love for Jay. And as a result, he’s my friend. We’re here to talk about that and nothing else.
AMY GOODMAN: Then, can I ask about mass incarceration?
HARVEY WEINSTEIN: We’ve done it. We’ve done it. Thanks, guys. Thanks.
AMY GOODMAN: And do you think the movement is—OK.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN: Thanks, guys.
The even did a 'town hall' together in March 2017 for the same project.
Now this one is an aside, not overly focused on Jay but more about how these worlds connect in strange ways. but still interesting. Director/ Writer sometimes actor James Toback is a long time friend of Brett Ratner they used to be housemates and are/were very close.
in 1999 James Toback directed Black And White it was about white kids into Hip Hop it had some of Wu Tang in it and is famous for the scene where Mike Tyson slaps up Robert Downey Jr. It also featured a cameo from Brett Ratner.
Anyway James Toback also starred in Death Of A Dynasty playing Lyor Cohen which was directed by Dame Dash.
I had a convo once with a director about hip hop movies and he told me rumors were that James Toback extensively helped Dame with that movie. I was a bit leery about the suggestion but watching it back has his style all over it.
Why mention Toback? He was a proto Ratner probably taught him everything he knew. guy was also sexually assaulting women as far back as 1978
In 2018
Film-maker James Toback potentially broke laws in four sexual abuse investigations but will not face charges because the allegations fall outside California’s statute of limitations, a prosecutor has ruled.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office released documents on Monday that detailed investigations against Toback, who has reportedly been accused of sexual misconduct
by 395 women.
Hollywood stars
Selma Blair, Rachel McAdams and Julianne Moore are
among those to make public allegations against Toback, who was nominated for an Oscar for writing 1991’s Bugsy.
Last year
A New York jury on Wednesday awarded $1.68 billion US in damages to 40 women who accused writer and director James Toback of sexual abuse and other crimes over a span of 35 years, according to lawyers representing the plaintiffs.
The decision stems from a lawsuit filed in Manhattan in 2022 after New York state instituted a one-year window for people to file lawsuits over sexual assault claims even if they took place decades ago.
It marks one of the largest jury awards since the advent of the #MeToo movement, as well as in New York state history, said attorney Brad Beckworth, of the law firm Nix Patterson LLP, in an interview. The plaintiffs, he said, believe such a large verdict will send a message to powerful individuals "who don't treat women appropriately."
But lets bring this back round to Ratner and Jay Z who both have found themselves connected again through another source.
The Trump Family
That new movie about Melina Trump that came out this week is directed by none other than Brett Ratner, he has the full backing of Trump whose even asked paramount pictures to greenlight Rush Hour 4.
It would not surprise me if him and Jay have not crossed paths especially since Jay and Beyonce are fine sitting down with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and being cozy. Guess they gotta repay on that Desiree Perez Trump pardon. And make sure any future business Jay or Roc Nation is involved in gets an easy ride.
