Bonnette Bio

Brian Bonnette is Bonnette Da Bandit, a rapper from Orangeburg SC. I started writing lyrics when I was 15 hoping to escape poverty. I always was a decent writer as a kid, I wrote short stories and won an award in 3rd grade for writing an essay. Growing up with less than others made me want. So I choose this rap profession; influenced by those at top of the game with videos, shows, shiny things and hoes. I started recording with my friend Corey and two radios. One radio had a mic built in to it and the other radio played the beat. At first the beats were instrumentals for like 6months, then Corey parents got him a keyboard for his birthday it was like fate. We recorded damn near everyday, I even recorded sick. After high school I moved to GA but Corey had another year to do. I was hoping he would move there with me and my brother when he got out of school but he didnt. I worked for like 2years in GA then got fired and came back home nothing never jumped off for me in GA with the music, I did try but not hard enough. Back home liven with my mama; the house is crowded; fiances are ugly, I got no time for music. I focused on other things. Years past. I messed around and got with a woman while being in a crazy liven situation. I had a bad car accident and lost my means of transportation (a honda accord my brother gave me to go home with). Keep in mind no job yet since being home. I eventually went back to GA. My lady was supportive of me going back but she hated it. This time Im not successful at getting work on Memorial Dr.( thats what I said) I had an interview at Office Depot but that lady called my bluff about previous work experience. Then I lost my ID so Krystals couldnt give me work. I came home again; this time I stayed. Not much focus on music just working and hustling. I did meet some cool MCs recording music down the road from me. I was still writing lyrics, so my cousin took me over to his cousin house where I saw what a pc could do. I meet Cool Edit and Fruit Loops, now Im back rapping again. I went and put my own studio together and learned some shit. More years past, and Im still learning shit. I realize I need money to fund me, so I hustling whatever is in demand. Not doing what I should have been doing; like going to a pro studio with my money, I fucked around and got shot, so lifestyle changes had to happen. Now Im a starving artist spending my last on my dreams. Im not a special lyricist or a fast rapper I just listen to a beat and write whatever comes to mind. I feel its one of those gifts from the Creator Of All Liven Things. Here is a link to my music https://goo.gl/giM8NT  

Sony vs. Rdio executives

In a new lawsuit, Sony Music alleges it was defrauded of millions when the on-demand service Rdio came to agreement with Pandora and subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last November.

The complaint filed in New York federal court targets Rdio chief executive officer Anthony Bay, Rdio general counsel Elliott Peters and Rdio senior v in charge of content licensing Jim Rondinelli.

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The first big bust in the era of streamed music, Rdio sold its key assets to Pandora for $75 million. At the time of the bankruptcy filing, Rdio had more than $190 million in secured debt and about $30 million of unsecured debt. The company was losing $2 million each month.

Licensing sound recordings was one of Rdio's biggest expenses.

In 2010, Sony came to a content agreement that enabled Rdio to use music from such artists as Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce. By the end of 2014, according to the complaint, Rdio owed Sony $5.5 million as a minimum revenue guarantee. Sony says that Rdio's executives approached the label about renegotiating the content agreement and deferring the due date of the payment. Sony agreed to an interim extension.

The complaint states: "Unbeknownst to SME, however, at the same time that Rdio was negotiating the amendment to its Content Agreement with SME, it was simultaneously negotiating its deal with Pandora -- under which Rdio would file for bankruptcy; Pandora would buy Rdio’s assets out of bankruptcy; defendant Bay (as part-owner, executive officer, and director of Rdio’s secured creditor) would expect to be first in line to receive proceeds of the Pandora deal; and SME (as an unsecured creditor) would receive pennies on the dollar for the amounts owed to it under the amended Content Agreement."

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Sony says that Rdio purposely kept its Pandora negotiations and impending bankruptcy secret so as to hold back Sony from demanding immediate payment of the $5.5 million and "inducing" extensions and a restructuring of payment obligations. What's more, Sony alleges that one day prior to Rdio making its deal with Pandora, a renewal amendment was made that gave Rdio the right to sound recordings through March 31, 2017.

"A material provision of the Renewal Amendment was Rdio’s obligation to pay SME $2 million on Oct. 1, 2015 — the day after the Renewal Amendment was executed," continues the lawsuit. "This presented a dilemma for Rdio: the Pandora deal would be jeopardized either upon Rdio’s taking $2 million in cash out of its business, or upon Rdio failing to make the payment to SME and putting its ongoing access to SME’s content at risk."

Faced with this situation, Bay and Rondinelli allegedly told Rdio it was raising capital so as to get Sony to extend the due date for the payment.

Sony, repped by Jonathan Sperling at Covington & Burling, is now asserting claims of fraudulent inducement and unjust enrichment. The music major is upset over the $5.5 million it still hasn't received from the 2010 deal as well as the $2 million not received under the renewal agreement. Sony also takes issue with compensation and bonuses paid out to Bay and Peters -- money, it says, that "should have been paid to SME for the rights it licensed to Rdio" -- as well as Bay being "personally enriched" by the sale of Rdio assets to Pandora.

"It would be against equity and good conscience to permit Defendants to retain any benefits that they obtained as a result of their fraudulent conduct," the complaint states.

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