According to reports, Pras of the Fugees is turning his legal troubles onto others as he is set to sue two high-profile figures over alleging that he was an FBI informant.
Reps for both 50 Cent and Kyrie Irving received letters notifying them of the defamation lawsuit based on referring to Pras as "FBI informant" and subsequent social media posts from 50 Cent and Kyrie Irving echoing that allegation.
Back on April 24, 50 Cent shared an IG post with the caption, “I knew this fool was a Rat! I’m glad I never fvck with this guy.” A day later, Irving echoed the sentiment, writing “A whole FBI informant was in the Fugees for that long??”
However, Rolling Stone, the publication that originally referred to Pras as an informant, later changed the wording and noted that he “voluntarily met with FBI agents.”
“It is and was absolutely and demonstrably false for You to publish that Michel was a ‘government informant,’” Pras’s representative Jonathan Noah Schwartz wrote to Rolling Stone.
“Labeling a Hip Hop artist such as Michel, the reputation of whom is dependent upon ‘street credibility’ and not being a ‘snitch,’ a ‘government informant’ most certainly tends to subject said Hip Hop artist to hatred, distrust, ridicule, contempt and/or disgrace, along with injury in their trade or profession.”
Source: hiphopdx.com
