Meek Mill is expected to file a lawsuit against the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas, TMZ reports.
The "Going Bad" rapper's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told the entertainment news site that they are going after the resort after they forced Meek to the leave the hotel's grounds and even threatened to arrest him without cause over the weekend.
In a statement to the entertainment news site, Joe said he is seeking "heavy monetary damages" for "lying and humiliating Meek." He added, "I'm going to take this place down because of what they did."
On Sunday (May 26) Meek shared a video of two hotel staffers asking him to leave the property due to a "prior incident" that they refused to explain to him. "Cosmopolitan hotel/casino going to extreme racist levels to keep too many black entertainers and black people," Meek captioned the clip. "they said they gone lock me up.. I’m like for what I’ve been once to a party with jayz ..... Some of these casinos have a bunch of [tactics] to keep the level of blacks down .... but love to take our money!!!! This happens to a lot of black entertainers not just me either!! I felt crazy being put out by these white men for no reason!"
Meek's attorney told TMZ he believes the incident went down because of racial discrimination, as he claimed there's a list of black rappers who are "persona non grata" at a group of Vegas hotels. While the Cosmopolitan denies said list, saying they don't exclude anyone because of race, Joe said he's already identified two other rappers —Yo Gotti and BlocBoy JB — who claim other Vegas hotels have denied them entry because they're black rappers.
While the Cosmopolitan told TMZ they did not discriminate against Meek, citing the fact that the Marquee Nightclub at the hotel where Meek was heading was at capacity, that does not match with the story the two staffers told Meek.
As seen in the video, the Cosmopolitan staff members said they couldn't allow Meek on the property because of a prior incident. Even when Meek asked if he could go into the hotel to get something to eat they said no, which seems to prove that the nightclub's capacity had nothing to do with their reasoning for kicking him off the property.
Meek's lawsuit will allege racial discrimination under state and federal law as well as defamation, TMZ reports.
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