Nas’ document label, Mass Enchantment, has simply settled a lawsuit introduced by a former white worker who alleges she confronted racial discrimination throughout her tenure on the firm.
On Friday, June 13, Mass Enchantment settled with Melissa Cooper, the corporate’s former head of improvement, exterior of courtroom and filed a joint movement with Cooper to dismiss the case solely, Billboard reported.
Whereas the preliminary lawsuit didn’t individually identify Nas, Cooper did sue the corporate’s CEO, Peter Bittenbender, and Mass Enchantment’s former content material chief, Jenya Meggs.
In 2023, Cooper sued Mass Enchantment, alleging that in her tenure from April 2021 to June 2023, she was met with a “racist conspiracy.” Cooper claims Meggs, who’s Black, didn’t maintain again in expressing her disdain for a “white lady working in hip hop” and would frequently disparage her in conferences and refuse to work along with her.
In keeping with Cooper, her refusal led to the previous improvement head’s elimination from sure initiatives, together with Mass Enchantment’s Hip Hop 40 Dwell live performance, earlier than she was finally fired.
After she was fired, a former romantic associate of Meggs confirmed Cooper textual content messages between Meggs and a documentarian producer that contained additional “racist” insults towards Cooper, together with calling her a “cracker” and complaints about “white of us,” the Hollywood Reporter reported on the time. When Cooper introduced the messages to the eye of Bittenbender, she claims he simply shrugged them off.
Mass Enchantment, Bittenbender, and Meggs “vigorously” deny participating in discriminatory practices. In keeping with courtroom paperwork, they stated Cooper was fired for monetary causes; on the time, her division had not made a sale in a 12 months. In addition they declare the notorious textual content messages of Meggs have been taken out of context.
As soon as a print journal, Nas relaunched Mass Enchantment in 2014 alongside Bittenbender, and the model has since advanced right into a multi-media firm and document label.
