2014 was a crazy year if your name was Andre Roxx. We got to talk with the Wu-Tang Killa Beez artist yesterday morning about his lawsuit against media outlet TMZ. Andre was the subject of a article that TMZ ran in 2014 that stated that Andre cut off his pens and jumped off a hotel in California, which was impossible because at that time he was incarcerated in Philadelphia Pennsylvania ! The actual person that TMZ was talking about was another artist from the Wu-Tang named Andre Johnson aka Christ Bearer!
News of the incident quickly spread across television and other media outlets such as iHeartMedia Inc, Warner Brothers Entertainment and even international !
Andre Johnson and Marques Andre Johnson are two different people all together . The names being crossed we understand but they bear no resemblance what's so ever! When incarcerated Marques said "I had to go into protected custody" while he served his sentence.
The question that is on everyone's mind is why didn't anyone correct this huge mistake? After TMZ found out that they had the wrong person they did not write a retraction at all!
Marques Andre Johnson has suffered from this report financially because he has not been able to be place on any show tickets since the report.
Some of his friends and family members have not talked to him since the false report. Djs and promotions will not book him because it is to "risky" to have him on the bill. Marques Andre Johnson stated "I've worked hard to build my name in this business, good or bad I've worked to get where I'm at, I just want my name back!"
With all that he has gone through in the past 2 1/2 years we surely hope that this is a wake up call for all major media outlets to get the source material right!
