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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-352005c.html
Hip-hop jock's sick rap Power 105 DJ fired after sex threat vs. rival's kid BY GREG WILSON DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU The comments by Troi Torain - better known to his listeners on top-rated hip-hop station Power 105 (WWPR-FM) as DJ Star - were so over the top that he could be in hot water with the FCC and the Manhattan district attorney's office. Torain offered listeners $500 to tell him where the daughter of nemesis DJ Envy, of Hot 97, went to school. "Yes, I disrespect your seed," Torain ranted. "If you didn't hear me, I said I would like to do an R. Kelly on your seed. On your little baby girl." Torain, 42, described in graphic detail what he meant by the reference to the R&B singer Kelly, who allegedly committed an unnatural act on an underage girl, a stunt captured on a widely circulated video. Torain, who warned in his diatribe that he carries a gun, also called the wife of DJ Envy, whose real name is Rashawn Casey, a "whore," a "lo mein eater" and far worse anti-Asian slurs. Casey could not be reached for comment. But his wife, Gia Casey, who appeared at a news conference with several City Council members yesterday, said she's now afraid that her kids could fall prey, if not to Torain, then to a crazed li stener. "I want his job to be yanked from him, and I want Clear Channel to have to be responsible on some level for allowing this to happen," she said. "Because not only have they condoned it, but by condoning it they have promoted it." Yesterday afternoon, the station suspended him. Hours later, they fired him. "Power 105 finds recent remarks broadcast by Troi Torain of the Star & Buc Wild Morning Show to be wholly unacceptable," said Rob Williams, marketing manager for Clear Channel. "As of late this afternoon, he is no longer with Power 105.1 or Clear Channel Radio. We sincerely apologize to those who may have been offended by his remarks." Queens Councilman John Liu, who at one point yesterday said Torain's words merited his being "terminated from the face of the Earth," filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC did not return calls for comment, but Liu said he was told by FCC investigators that it appears Torain's comments could affect his station's broadcasting licen se. The Manhattan district attorney's office is planning to see if Torain's rants amounted to a crime, said spokeswoman Barbara Thompson. Casey has been accused of crossing the line himself. He was part of Hot 97's "Miss Jones in the Morning" crew that was suspended last year after they broadcast a shocking parody ridiculing the 187,000 victims of the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Their producer, Rick Delgado, was fired, and the station lost millions of dollars in advertising revenue. Rondell Conway, associate music editor for Vibe magazine, said Torain's comments are shock radio theater gone amok. "He is trying to fill the void left by Howard Stern," Conway said. "He wants to show that he'll say anything, no matter how outrageous." |
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NEW YORK -- The country's top rated hip-hop disc jockey, DJ Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, was arrested Friday on charges of harassment and endangering the welfare of a child in a case stemming from on-air racial and sexual remarks about a rival's wife and 4-year-old daughter. Torain, 42, was taken into custody and transported to a police precinct in Lower Manhattan. The New York Police Department's Hate Crime Task Force launched the probe after the chief of detectives reviewed a transcript of DJ Star's on-air comments about DJ Envy and his family, said police spokesman Paul Browne. Tor ain was ordered to surrender a 9 mm handgun and target practice permit at police headquarters. When he arrived, he was arrested. Star apologized on Thursday through his attorney, Benjamin Brafman. The lawyer called the remarks "unsuitable and inappropriate" and assured the rival's wife she had nothing to fear. But he also claimed his client was the victim of threats by her husband. Torain worked for Clear Channel Radio's Power 105.1 FM before being fired Wednesday amid protests from elected officials. A city councilman, John Liu, said on Thursday that the disgraced DJ "now must be put behind bars for spewing these threats against a little 4-year-old girl." In the comments, made between May 3 and Monday, Torain -- co-host of the syndicated "Star and Buc Wild Morning Show" -- offered $500 to any listener who could provide information about the rival DJ's daughter's school and used racial slurs when talking about his wife, w ho is part Asian. "I will come for your kids," Torain said, according to transcribed excerpts provided by Liu's office. "I finally got the information on his slant-eyed, whore wife." Torain called the couple's child a "little half-a-lo-mein eater" and said he wanted to "do an R. Kelly on your seed, on your little baby girl. I would like to tinkle on her," according to the excerpts. The comments apparently were referring to videotapes in 2002 showing a man bearing a striking resemblance to singer R. Kelly having sex with someone who appeared to be an underage girl and then urinating on her. DJ Envy's wife, Gia Casey, has said she is parts Chinese, Jamaican and Scottish. Telephone messages left for a spokeswoman for hip-hop radio station Hot 97, where DJ Envy works, were not immediately returned Thursday evening. Torain and his half-brother , Timothy Joseph, or Buc Wild, hosted Hot 97's morning drive time show beginning in 2000 and joined Clear Channel Radio in March 2004. They began working at Power 105 in January 2005. Their show aired in markets including Philadelphia, Miami and Richmond, Va. Clear Channel, a unit of Clear Channel Communications Inc., said it found Torain's statements "wholly unacceptable." |
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060514/D8HJGO1G0.html
May 14, 6:52 AM (ET) NEW YORK (AP) - A syndicated hip-hop disc jockey arrested after making on-air racial and sexual rants about a rival radio personality's wife and young child has been released on bail. DJ Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after a broadcast on Power 105.1 FM. Transcripts show he hurled racist insults, threatened to sexually abuse the 4-year-old daughter of his rival, Hot 97's DJ Envy, and offered $500 for information about where she went to school. "I will come for your kids," Torain said, according to a transcript provided by New York Councilman John C. Liu. Torain was arraigned after 11 p.m. Fri day and posted $2,000 bail within an hour, authorities said. Police originally had indicated he also would be charged with harassment, but prosecutors decided against it for now, district attorney's spokeswoman Barbara Thompson said. Torain's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said his client's conduct was inappropriate but not criminal, and was "never intended to frighten the family." Torain - along with his brother Timothy Joseph, known as Buc Wild - was the host of Clear Channel Radio's syndicated morning show on Power 105. The company fired Torain after city officials complained. Their show aired in markets including Philadelphia, Miami and Richmond, Va. |
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If dat nigger rapes dat fo' year ol' niglet, I hope he gots sense enough to use a muddafugg'n condom. Dey no tell'n what he might take home mess'n wif dat li'l ho.
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A Manhattan federal appeals court on Thursday said it was all right for Councilman John Liu to call a radio host a pedophile because he didn't really mean it. Liu (D-Queens) called morning radio host Star, aka Troi Torain, "a sick, racist pedophile," "child predator" and a "lunatic" in 2006 after Torain made crude on-air remarks suggesting that he wanted to sexually abuse the 4-year-old daughter of rival deejay Raashaun Casey. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision last year tossing out Torain's lawsuit accusing Liu of defamation. The three-judge panel said it was clear Liu was expressing an opinion, not fact. "No reasonable listener could have perceived Liu's statements, in the context that they were made, to convey that Torain had committed acts of pedophilia," the judges said. Torain apologized for his comments, which he said were leveled during a "war of words" in a "hip-hop radio hate campaign." He also used a racial slur to describe Casey's Asian wife. Torain was fired from WWPR (105.1) after making the remarks, and now works for WNYZ (87.7 FM, Pulse 87). |
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