Hip-Hop Pundit DJ Akademiks Sued for Rape

Livingston Allen. Photo: Earl Gibson III/Getty Images DJ Akademiks, a hip-hop pundit known for spreading misinformation and making sexist comments, has been sued for rape. Rolling Stone reports that Fauziya Abashe filed a suit against Akademiks (born Livingston Allen), over two 2022 incidents. Abashe dated Akademiks during 2021, but the alleged incidents occurred over nearly a year after their split. Abashe said she was invited to Akademiks’s house in New Jersey where she claims two men drugged, assaulted, and raped her on his pool deck. Early the next morning, she claims she awoke to Akademiks “brutally raping her.” Akademiks did not reply to Rolling Stone about the suit. Abashe additionally claims in the suit that Akademiks later showed her surveillance footage of the two men raping her, and she included text messages from Akademiks afterward saying that she should “get tested” and he would too. She also claims Akademiks later admitted to having sex with her during a wire call. Abashe said she first took her claims to police but decided not to press charges. She ultimately filed the case after Akademiks mentioned the incident in a video on December 23, 2023, saying Abashe “was getting trained by my two...