Livingston Allen.
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DJ Akademiks, a hip-hop pundit recognised for spreading misinformation and sexism, has been sued for rape. Rolling Stone stories that Fauziya Abashe submitted a fit in opposition to Akademiks (born Livingston Allen), over two 2022 incidents. Abashe dated Akademiks in the course of 2021, but the alleged incidents happened around practically a year soon after their break up. Abashe explained she was invited to Akademiks’s house in New Jersey where by she claims two adult males drugged, assaulted, and raped her on his pool deck. Early the next morning, she statements she awoke to Akademiks “brutally raping her.” Akademiks did not reply to Rolling Stone about the fit. Abashe on top of that statements in the fit that Akademiks later on showed her surveillance footage of the two adult males raping her, and she incorporated textual content messages from Akademiks afterward indicating that she need to “get tested” and he would as well. She also claims Akademiks later admitted to obtaining sexual intercourse with her for the duration of a wire call.
Abashe explained she initially took her promises to police but made the decision not to push costs. She in the end submitted the scenario following Akademiks talked about the incident in a online video on December 23, 2023, expressing Abashe “was having skilled by my two mens on the pool deck” whilst he was asleep. Abashe is claiming Akademiks defamed her, both equally by expressing she participated “voluntarily” and by “maintaining he never participated at all.” Abashe’s attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, informed Rolling Stone they only submitted suit “after numerous unsuccessful makes an attempt to privately solve this circumstance.”
The lawsuit arrives as Akademiks has been a crucial supporter of Drake in his beef with Kendrick Lamar. Akademiks caught a stray diss on Lamar’s “6:16 in LA” and has long gone on to insist Lamar is lying about Drake being a pedophile on tunes like “Not Like Us.” Akademiks was formerly acknowledged for supporting Tory Lanez during his trial for capturing Megan Thee Stallion and spreading misinformation. Of her lawsuit, Abashe explained to Rolling Stone, “I’m assured that justice will prevail, and the veil will be removed so no other girl will have to endure what I did.”
