By Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
The IRS launched a raid on the Hendersonville, Tenn., home of hip hop artist Young Buck August 3 seizing thousands of dollars in jewelry, audio equipment and other personal items, according to unsealed court documents obtained by The Tennessean.
The Internal Revenue Service claims the artist, who owed more than $300,000 in delinquent taxes for 2006 through 2008, failed to make payments to the agency after being notified on three different occasions in 2008 and 2009.
The Nashville natives lawyers filed a motion to protect his assets, but that failed to stop the raid.
Young Buck, whose real name is David Darnell Brown, told MTV News that this happened because he trusted his managers, lawyers and accountants while he focused on his music.
“From now on, I am going to stay on top of my own business,” Brown.
Brown, 29, also blamed his record label, with whom he was entangled in a long-standing legal battle with in order to sever contractual ties with G-Unit Records, which is owned by rapper 50 cent. After Brown was reportedly kicked out of the music group in April 2008, he was prevented from releasing his own songs.
He has just recently been released from that contract and plans to announce the news in the future, according to the website HipHopDX.
“I have a new team in place," announced Brown. "But I am also paying full attention now. Nothing like this will ever happen again. This is a huge wake-up call for all entertainers to stay on top of your own trusted employees and team members, and replace anyone that was put in place by your record label if the situation you have goes sour.”
In a statement the rapper released, he said that the agents seized personal property belonging to his personal assistant, the mother of his child and his son.
“The worst part of this isn’t the material stuff — that will all be replaced,” Brown wrote. “It’s what it does it does to the people around me. They took my kids’ PlayStation, my assistants’ computers, and baby’s mother’s jewelry.”
Additional items confiscated by U.S. Federal agents during the raid included furniture, platinum records, a movie poster of the Pacino remake of "Scarface," and a Breitling Bentley wristwatch valued at $31,000.
Brown and rapper 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) have seemingly settled their feud and Brown stated he's been working on his latest album, which will reportedly be released under the G-Unit label.
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