Queen Latifah Pays Laid Off Staff With Her Own Money ? The Female Rap Legend and Actress Queen Latifah’s Show was cancelled last month after having two seasons, leaving a lot of the shows staff out of employment right before the holiday season arrived. But thanks to the kindness of the Hip Hop Icon, Queen Latifah Lets her former employees need not cancel Christmas for all of there family’s. According to all of the reports Queen Latifah is still putting money in there laid off production workers pockets throughout the holiday except for the fact that taping has been ended officially.