Rapper Posed As Student To Stiff Red Hook Nonprofit, Report Says

RED HOOK, BROOKLYN — A Grammy-nominated rapper stiffed a nonprofit out of a location fee by posing as a high school student to film on an oil tanker docked in Red Hook, IndieWire reported.

Sir Robert Byrson Hall, who raps under the name Logic, told the Mary A. Whalen operator Carolina Salguero he wanted to shoot a "summer-school project" aboard the historic tanker, but it turned out to be a video for his song "Super Mario World," according to IndieWire.

"I looked at Logic; he’s so scrawny, I mistook for him as high school student," Salguero told IndieWire.

"I thought the videographer was his dad, graying hair at the temples, and his friend was dressed in the Super Mario costume — I was busy and trusted I was helping high school students."

Hall sings about spending $2 million on a new home in the video, which ends with the man in the Mario costume telling Salguero they're only high school students who want to film on the ship.

Salguero didn't charge Hall and his crew for the filming — which could run between $5,000 to $10,000 — only asking them to supply a copy of the finished product and credit the ship in it, IndieWire reported. She didn't think anything of it until a neighbor showed her the video then she reached out to videographer Justin Fleischer in December 2016.

Logic's management eventually got back and said they were "confident" they could pay the $5,000 donation Salguero suggest for the filming, but she hasn't heard back since and still hasn't gotten paid, IndieWire reported.

She took to Twitter last month to call out not getting the location fee after she saw Logic gave his wife a $123,000 car for Christmas.

"Do you think it's funny to steal from non-profits?" Salguero wrote on Twitter. "We do programs with real high school students, many of them low-income."

Salguero bought the decommissioned oil tanker in 2006 and struggled to find a home for it until she found a space to dock it in Red Hook. She started PortSide New York to run a museum, school visits and maritime programming for local students.

The non-profit received recognition by the White House in 2013 after they weathered Hurricane Sandy and provided aid to Red Hook residents recovering from the storm.

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