State sued over cancelled Jeezy concert | The West Virginia Record

CHARLESTON - A concert promoter alleges he was dissed by a local university when it cancelled a scheduled performance by a well-known hip-hop artist.

West Virginia State University is named as a co-defendant in a four-count breach of contract suit filed by Don Staples. In his complaint filed Feb. 8 in Kanawha Circuit Court, Staples, 59, of South Charleston, alleges he lost over $300,000 when WVSU officials pulled the plug on a scheduled concert by Jay Wayne Jenkins aka "Jeezy" on WVSU's campus last year.

The West Virginia Board of Education and WVSU President Hazo W. Carter Jr. are named as co-defendants in the suit.

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