Dude looks like a black, gay cruise captain!
Anyway, I bet this time last year and earlier this year, nobody thought it would come to this. Pretty Ricky is in shambles and now the drama is just beginning. Didn’t they take cues from Immature aka IMX?
MTV News has obtained a federal complaint filed on behalf of former Pretty Ricky member Pleasure by his attorneys Robert Meloni and Steve Schwartz.
In the complaint, the R&B singer (born Marcus Cooper), alleges a number of wrongdoings against Joseph “Blue” Smith and Bluestar Entertainment, the company Pretty Ricky is signed to in a deal with Atlantic Records. The group’s management and booking company, International Artist Agency, is also named in the suit.
According to Pleasure, Smith deceived the singer by first acting as a surrogate father to him and also serving in roles that were conflicts of interest for Pleasure and the group, including acting as a personal manager, business manager, booking agent, record exec and music publisher. The suit alleges that Smith “exploited conflict of interests in the competing roles he occupied in Cooper’s life.”
International Artist Agency, headed by Stephen Brush, is alleged to have abetted a number of Smith’s practices, according to the complaint.
Pleasure, according to the information filed earlier this week, is seeking a release from his contract with Bluestar and back pay owed to him. The suit claims that the former Pretty Ricky star has not been properly compensated for his contributions to the group, whose two albums have both been certified gold (500,000 Units sold).
Love is a losing game huh? Well I would sue too if my manager made me wear half the sh*t those cats wore. I mean somebody HAD to be threatening them for them to go along with that mess……
Manager: Here’s the outfits I picked out for you.
Pretty Ricky: But these are assless chaps!!
Manager: Y’all sugar tank ghettro-sexuals better put this on ‘fore I raise up and pop my trunk. Soul IV Real is still looking for work.



































