Rap is littered with stories of rags to riches and rags again. Which is why it is such a pleasure to pay homage to musicians who applied some common sense to the rhymes they traded in for dollars. Rappers turning Singers are cool, but what is really powerful is some entrepreneurship. Take Chamillionaire for example. He went from Riding Dirty to investment ventures and CEOship. Another example is Rick Ross who, despite fumbling a major Reebok deal over some questionable lyrics, still finds ways to diversify his portfolio beyond music about Maybachs. As nice as it is to branch out into different ventures and pay homage to pears, properly paying your employees is even sweeter.
Rapper Rick Ross’ family, which operates several Wingstop franchises, owns the five Mississippi locations the labor department found to be illegally deducting money from workers’ wages, leaving some with take-home pay less than $7.25 an hour.
The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division says the Mississippi stores – under Boss Wing Enterprises – made their employees illegally pay for uniforms, safety training, background checks, and even cash register shortages.
“Restaurant industry employees work hard, often for low wages, and many depend on every dollar earned to make ends meet,” Jackson’s Wage and Hour Division director, Audrey Hall, said in a statement. “The law prevents Boss Wing Enterprises LLC from shifting operating costs to workers … or to allow a worker’s pay to fall below the minimum...
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