Six members of Samoan hip hop group The Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. are being sued along with Kid Rock for allegedly violently beating three men in 2006.
The Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E are a hip hop group from Carson, California, made up of the Samoan Devoux brothers Paul, Ted, Donald, Roscoe, Danny, and David. They began playing music in their father's Baptist church. Before church services the brothers would play P-Funk and experiment with other forms of hip-hop.
Despite their religious upbringing, the brothers eventually fell into the gang scene popular in their home of Compton, Los Angeles. After their youngest brother was killed in 1987, they decided to turn their lives around and dedicate their lives to music. To get away from the gang culture, the brothers decided to move to Japan.
Touring Japan in the mid 1980s the brothers became very popular. Upon their return to California in 1988, the group focused again on making music and re-christened themselves as the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
Kid Rock's got a bad reputation and he knows it - which is why he wants to put the kibosh on any mention of his previous bad behavior during his current court case.
Rock filed documents in L.A. County Superior Court on Friday in connection to a lawsuit filed against him by three guys who claim Rock and six members of the Boo-Yaa Tribe beat the hell out of them at the Roosevelt Hotel back in 2006.
In the documents, Rock (real name Robert Ritchie) asks that his "reputation as a 'tough guy' or 'thug' by means of his professional persona as 'Kid Rock’ not be used against him during the case.
Rock also wants no mention of his "prior criminal arrest or misdemeanor convictions" during the case as well; calling them irrelevant and prejudicial.
Source: TMZ.com
