“1st and 15th Entertainment

The Chicago based independent label was co-founded by Lupe Fiasco and Charles “Chilly” Patton around 2002. In 2003, Chilly was caught with six kilos of heroin. Authorities allege that Patton used profits from record deals to buy heroin and sell it throughout Chicago, but Fiasco was never implicated in the case.”

Rapper Lupe Fiasco’s associate Charles “Chilly” Patton with whom he owns the record label 1st & 15th was sentenced to 44 years on a drug charge by Judge Dennis Porter. Lupe Fiasco “Wasalu Muhammad Jaco” denies any involvement, although recorded conversations of Patton and Fiasco discussed splitting up “whole yellow” and “whole red ones.” The rapper stated that they were talking about the mixing and prepping of music tracks, while a witness testified that the colors referred to $10 packets of heroin.

The Chicago Tribune reports that investigators busted Charles “Chilly” Patton with 6 kilograms of heroin, with around $1 million in street value, that he kept in a storage locker. Patton was eventually sentenced in a Cook County courtroom last month by Judge Dennis Porter in which he received the charge for in 2003. Investigators claimed that Patton used profits from record deals to buy heroin and turn it around for street sales in Chicago.
Although prosecutors did not present evidence or a link between Patton’s drug dealing and the record label he owned with Lupe Fiasco, they believed that Patton had been dealing in the early 80′s, years before he met the rapper. Lupe Fiasco and Patton officially met in 2000.
“There is a large amount of money that he received from the sales of heroin,” said Assistant State’s Attorney Patrick Coughlin. “And he was able to start up a record company.”
Even though several industry people sent in letters on Patton’s behalf, the Judge went ahead and accepted the verdict. Lupe Fiasco on the other hand denied requests for comment, he instead expressed his reaction in a letter to the court.
“I love Charles . . . I am deeply saddened by his circumstances and will stand by him and his family no matter what occurs,” Fiasco wrote.

Lupe Fiasco Breaks Bad, Rapper Accused of Stashing Drug Money
by Jack de Aguilar | 03 September 2013
The rapper could be in trouble, big trouble

Basically, everyone’s been watching Breaking Bad. That’s what’s going on. TMZ report that Lupe Fiasco, the man behind this delightful tune, has been hiding money for a convicted drug kingpin, storing millions of dollars from the criminal’s wife.
This whole fiasco will see fiasco sued by the estranged wife, whose husband Charles Patton is serving 44 years in jail for his part in a wholesome heroin business. Looks like an old fashioned family enterprise simply can’t work in modern America.
She alleges that Lupe played a part in dispersing $9m between separate bank accounts in order to hide the money from her. The confusing thing, though, is that if Patton is a convicted drug felon, then all this money will surely be seized by either the police or the IRS? Perhaps we should all take a Breaking Bad sabbatical.
In 2007, Patton was charged with running a heroin empire in Chicago. A connection between Patton’s criminal activity and the record label was never found, but prosecutors desperately tried to find one. Lupe even testified at the trial and Patton was eventually convicted of possessing six kilos of heroin.
Lupe’s lawyer told TMZ that her claims will be proven untrue at trial. “There are no secret accounts and no illicit instructions,” said the attorney. Fiasco, whose real name is Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, broke onto the hip hop scene as a squeaky clean rapper with Daydreamin’.