{"id":357761,"date":"2026-09-26T20:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357761\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:28:48","slug":"nj-rapper-allegedly-raped-former-radio-show-host-in-brooklyn-hotel-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357761\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ rapper allegedly raped former radio show host in Brooklyn hotel: lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former radio host has accused a New Jersey rapper of raping her while was she drunk and barely conscious inside a Coney Island hotel room, according to a shocking lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Domonique Hayes, 40, claims Keyon Hart, 45, who goes by Snake IIz, ignored her repeated pleas to stop as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/20\/us-news\/victims-advocates-warn-slap-on-the-wrist-sentence-for-convicted-nyc-rapist-could-send-dangerous-message-its-an-outrage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he sexually assaulted <\/a>her on July 4, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He then tried intimidating her by bragging about having a gun and claiming he was a \u201cpimp,\u201d\u00a0according to the Sept. 11 complaint filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey-based rapper Snake IIz, whose real name is Keyon Hart, allegedly raped former radio show host Domonique Hayes. snakeiiz\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>When she confronted Hart \u2014 a member of the 90s hip-hop duo M.O.P.\u2019s crew called the \u201cFirst Family\u201d \u2014 a few days later, he apologized but then gaslighted her by saying she was not raped but simply regretted having sex after the fact, the suit alleges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry . . . the alcohol got the best of me,\u201d he allegedly wrote in since-deleted Instagram messages, the complaint claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deny all of it to be completely honest,\u201d Hart told The Post. \u201cNone of its true, she\u2019s a liar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claimed there are messages between them after the encounter in which Hayes allegedly said: \u201cAll I can think about is having sex with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did not provide those messages to The Post. His lawyer, Rene Myatt, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Hart boasts <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/31\/us-news\/tupac-murder-suspect-couldnt-stop-bragging-about-rappers-killing-prosecutor-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">features with Tupac Shakur<\/a> and collaborations with Wu-Tang-linked Killah Priest. The underground rapper\u2019s most popular songs include \u201cSick\u201d featuring Redrum781, \u201cBoom!\u201d featuring Fred the Godson and \u201cGet Em\u201d with Lil\u2019 Fame. He has more than 70,000 followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes said she has known Hart for years, first connecting with him professionally in 2016 when she interviewed him about his music for her web-based radio show, PrettygirlsXXX on BlogTalkRadio, in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Domonique Hayes filed the lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court.  Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>He and Hayes met again in 2019 after she moved to New York and the pair became friends, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Hart allegedly kept her in his circle by promising song collaborations that never materialized and having her model for his clothing brand, Soldi Sporchi \u2014 for which she claims she was never paid.<\/p>\n<p>On the day of the alleged rape, Hayes, Hart and his friends \u2014 including the M.O.P. duo\u2019s Lil\u2019 Fame \u2014 had been celebrating the Fourth of July and Hart\u2019s birthday on the Coney Island boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the party fizzled out and Hayes and Hart went to his room at the nearby Best Western Hotel, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Hart is part of M.O.P.\u2019s \u201cFirst Family.\u201d  snakeiiz\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[She] felt comfortable going back to Mr. Hart\u2019s room to rest because he had previously stayed at her home in Queens,\u201d the filing alleges. During those stays, Hart never tried \u201canything sexual or inappropriate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman said she had already spent the day drinking, but had a few more drinks while they hung out at the hotel and watched fireworks at around 1 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>She began feeling \u201cwoozy,\u201d and having \u201ctrouble keeping her eyes open,\u201d the filing claims.<\/p>\n<p>It was at that point that Hart pulled down her pants and pressed his groin into her backside, according to the complaint. She pulled them back up and allegedly told him, \u201cI\u2019m not doing that with you. Let go of my pants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayes claims she was intoxicated when she was allegedly raped.  Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>But he allegedly pulled them down a second time a few minutes later, as she was blacking out, the filing claims.<\/p>\n<p>From that point on, she was \u201cin and out of consciousness,\u201d according to the lawsuit. She allegedly recalled him forcibly kissing, performing oral sex <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/01\/us-news\/nyc-school-teacher-raped-student-for-years-sent-vile-texts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and penetrating her<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accuser \u2014 who never reported the alleged attack to police \u2014 is demanding unspecified damages, along with compensation for the modeling she did for Hart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stand with our client Ms. Hayes and with all women who have been abused.\u00a0 For far too long, men have used promises of work or success to lure women into vulnerable situations where they can exploit them sexually,\u201d her lawyer Lawrence Pearson told The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former radio host has accused a New Jersey rapper of raping her while was she drunk and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,119,57,1066,9,24,63,3018,3355,58],"class_list":["post-357761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-coney-island","tag-metro","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rape","tag-rappers","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}