September 18, 2008
Okay, so I laughed at myself when I watched this because I don’t know what the heck made me curse so much in an interview. Shouts go to Doggie Diamonds and ForbezDVD for getting this interview way before the book had even come out. And I apologize to all my girls who keep yelling at me, telling me not to forget to take the sunglasses off my head. I’m conscious of it now, I swear ! LOL.
September 6, 2008
The book excerpts will go up now. Book comes out this Tuesday, Sept. 9. Here’s another preview…
Excerpt from pages 14-15…
By the year 2000, the hip-hop industry was comparable to a male football locker room. Most of the top executives were men, the majority of hip-hop artists were male, as were almost all of the producers, video directors, engineers and DJs. That basically left video model or personal assistant as the most likely career option for a woman. But as a female, if you were successful, and rose to the top of the corporate ladder, your reputation became that much more vulnerable. If you looked halfway decent, then the misconception was that you slept your way to the top. On the contrary, if you were not easy on the eyes, then you must either have been gay or related to someone. As a woman, I knew it would be hard to beat the odds. But because I had put so much time in, I wasn’t about to let the odds come between me and what I wanted.
But a woman doesn’t only have her resume to worry about, she’s also got her reputation, and when it comes to a woman’s reputation in the business of hip-hop, it’s almost customary to define her by the men she’s been linked to. Pick up any hip-hop magazine and compare the stories done on women to those done on men. I guarantee you’ll find out more about he woman’s past sex life than you will about the man’s. That code doesn’t just apply to celebrities, it’s the same behind the scenes as well. For me, it was no different. The more successful I became in the industry, the harder it became to keep people out of my personal business.
My days and nights revolved around the magazine and around hip-hop, and my social network was composed of people who were just as obsessed with money, power and hip-hop as I was. Therefore, the majority of the men that I met along the way had some sort of function in the music industry. But in this particular sect of the industry, known to us as the hip-hop culture, the usual double standard applied to women is administered in much bigger doses. Once Snoop said “Bitches Ain’t Shit,” it was a wrap for us.
You can purchase it here on amazon.com.
June 16, 2008
Sorry I haven’t been posting. I will use the excuse that it was my birthday on Saturday, and contrary to the meaning of the word birth”day,” I actually start celebrating on the first of the month.
Anyway, I don’t think you needed me to tell you just how twisted it is that R. Kelly actually got off (no pun intended). I was sure that he was a wrap, but it goes to show you, I do not know everything….LOL.
No back to grinding. I don’t usually post about my self, because I do enough self-absorbed stuff in my normal life, but on here I like to keep it business. However, I feel it necessary to let y’all know that I’ve switched jobs. I have joined the global grind fam (www.globalgrind.com) and if you haven’t already done so, you should check it out. We have a lot of big things planned…but I won’t talk about it, and rather will let you all see.
Also, I’ve had a lot of folks hit me about that TV One/Black Enterprise panel I did a few weeks ago in North Carolina. I thank them for inviting me to be on, but as you can tell, I was pretty pissed off once the cameras started rolling. I have a lot to say about that, but I will save you the details until I have some more time to explain. One.
