This was too amusing for me to resist posting:

Hip hop mogul 50 Cent, Universal Music Group and several of its record labels were sued on Wednesday for promoting a “gangsta lifestyle” by a 14-year-old boy who says friends of the rapper assaulted him.

The lawsuit filed by James Rosemond and his mother, Cynthia Reed, says Universal Music Group — owned by Vivendi SA — and its labels Interscope Records, G-Unit Records and Shady Records, bear responsibility for the assault because they encourage artists to pursue violent, criminal lifestyles.

Can you say “overly litigious society?” I at least have to recognize this frivolous lawsuit for having enough entertainment value to preclude it from being terribly annoying. I wonder what that consultation must have been like: “Don’t let the name deceive you, Ms. Reed, he’s actually a very wealthy man…”