posted from raskasscentral.com

EXCLUSIVE NEWS: On June 30th, the Court System handed John Austin (Ras Kass) a 3 year sentence to be served in the California State
Penitentiary. He actually has to serve a certain amount based on what "strike" he was handed. If this is a First Strike, he has to only serve 50%
of the handed sentence with 2-4 months already accredited to the sentence because of his time in the Las Vegas and Los Angeles jail systems.
If this is considered a Second Strike, then Ras Kass will have to serve 85% of the handed sentence. Either way, Ras's management is predicting
that Ras Kass will be released around this time in the Summer of 2004.

To continue to give support for Ras Kass and the Free Ras Kass Movement, I have been in contact with Chino XL. He has agreed to offer any type
of support needed to support Ras Kass in these struggling times. This will be an open invitation for any and all Hip Hop Artists who want to contribute
to a track or project to support the movement. More information to follow once all projects and connections are made and organized.


And something that I did not add to the News: I might be working with Ras's peeps to get in contact with Wendy Goldstein and try to just directly ask her and Capitol Records about what can we do on behalf of Ras to get him out of the contract. He is only still being held on because of his latest insults to the company which they took personally. So if we can offer some form of apology , and an agreement, I think that we can get him out of the contract...NO Lawyers, NO BS, just man to (wo)man convo, and hoepfully I can actually talk to her directly MYSELF. I will let everyone know how this goes. Peace.