BLIND ITEM: “FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS!”

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BLIND ITEM: “FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS!”
He hasn’t been in the industry that long but he’s already considered a male slut!  That’s why his cougar (black actress) broke up with him; she got tired of him sleeping with strippers in Atlanta, Miami and L.A.

Others are complaining, he’s verbally detached around women but when he’s around his boys, he gives a play by play of each sexual encounter.

Only one (famous) woman has him wrapped around her finger, why?  Because she disappears after they have sex.  He tries to call her, she ignores him.  When she’s horny and they’re in the same area, she contacts him.  She treats him like an escort.  She considers him a friend with benefits.

He’s also frustrated because he’s signed to a 360 deal.

Who is he?

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        • A 360 deal is a type of recording agreement that allows a label to take a percentage of everything the artist does.
          Once upon a time labels would take a percentage of the money made from records sell and the artist would keep any money made off of other areas such as tours, merchandising, movie deals, etc. At that time artist weren’t making any money performing so the label would take ownership of the artist’s “master” recording–which was where most of the money is generated.
          As the internet developed, fans began to REALLY follow their favorite artist, attend concerts, by their clothes, etc and all of a sudden artists began to make major money.

          Labels quickly realized that the artists were making ALOT of money in these other areas so the labels began to tell the world that the music industry was losing tons of money and therefore they (the labels) needed to take a percentage from every area…..not just album sales, to stay afloat. So today most artist sign “360 deals” and the label makes money off of anything the artist does….which means that artist who once lived comfortably saw his income slashed by sometimes as much as 70%…

          So if we buy an album for $10…the label takes its cut first ($7) and the artist has $3 in his account with the label…then the label pays itself back back for any “advances” made to the artist and recording costs for making the album (studio, videos, etc)…so lets say another $2…so now the the artist has $1 left…but wait, the artist has to give his manager 30%, and pay his accountant, and lawyer so that means the artist made 50 to 70 cents off of a $10 album….. shoot I would be mad too!

          • I would be dam if they got my touring money – that’s a hard hustle and that where artist could make some serious change.

    • Rihanna is going to burn out and melt down. She’s moving too fast, partying, drinking and whatever else. She’s going through these men like crazy, bad rep.

  5. I mean HELLO of course Ms. Cole traveled with Mr. Nat to keep an eye on his. That’s why most wives who traveled with her famous hubby so he will not creep. Not that her being there can’t stop it since where theres a will theres a way. When Loni Anderson was married to Burt Reynolds the lady he was creeping with was right ther in front of Loni passing herself off as a girlfriend of one on the guys who traveled with Burt

    I heard the reason Smokey retired Claudette from the group afte they weere man and wife is because when he traveled out of town he could play

    So I believe it when they say Ms. Cole traveled to keep an eye on Mr. Nat since it was rumored he was creeping with one of the blonde Hee Haw tramp

    • Hey Hiddoll,

      I love your post! I’m surprised that Marie Cole traveled with her husband the way she did.

      I wonder about Allen Iverson and Lisa Wu-Hartwell..interesting.

      • Maria Cole wasn’t right herself, karma, that’s why Nat cheated with that hee haw girl. He was sick and dying and still sending her money from his hospital bed. She even called his room when Maria was there. Maria made him break up with her.

      • Hey you- I love your post too
        I wasn’t really surprised she traveled with it u know how backin the day when the wives stayed home. At least she was smart back then to travel with her hubby. Not that it would stop him from playing house ;-) ;-)

    • Claudette told Smokey, he could cheat, just don’t get any groupies pregnant, what did he do, he got a girl pregnant. Smokey also had a pretty mistress in Detroit, she was like 18, way young,

      • Claudette sounds like Tom Jones wife. She said he can play but don’t get any of the women he cheat with pregnant. But what happen? he like Smokey has a few outside kids.

        It makes me so mad to hear a wife say it’s okay that her hubby cheat BUT JUST DON’T GET THE WOMAN YOUR CHEATING WITH PREGNANT!

        That’s crazy

  6. Soul Train where are you on this fine hot Sunday. It is hotter then July out her in Chi-town. I was going to poweer walk but thats out :-( too dog-gone hot

  7. Anyone other then me think Willow will be coming out soon? Either that or she really REALLY likes looking like a boy

    Raven Symone came out a couple weeks ago

    • No your not, I saw some pics from this weekend. She’s going to be the next Chaz Bono, I hate to say it but it’s coming.

      Is Raven officially out or going the “Queen Latifah it’s none of your business route”???

      • I think the Queen hinted that she was out last week when she was at some kind of gay thingy. I heard she said something like ” I’m glad to be around my kind people.

        Now,unless she was at a function for african american,women with large breast, every actresses who’s worked with Will Smith or a room full of former rappers the Queen is really a King

      • I don’t know why the Smith’s are so determined to let their kids be in the industry, guess they want a legacy like the Fonda’s.

  8. I cannot believe how Bey & Jay let slick ass, down sliding into B/C status, Gwyneth infiltrate their circle. She was BFF with Madonna until her career started sliding. She was also good friends with Jennifer Aniston when she was with Brad Pitt. Bey need to watch her cause the husband Chris Martin is never around. The white blog have them separated for over a year now.

  9. Hey everyone!!!
    Shame on you Nas!!!! All that “black pride” you supposedly had and your defending some ish like this??? If you thought these things, that’s bad enough, but to publicly defend some mess like this speaks volumes about you COON!! Russell, Toure, Ice T, Kanye, all very well known coons are to be expected. They worship any woman that’s not black. Let’s not forget how Russell, 50 and other industry coons rushed to Eminem’s defense an he actually went on a racist rant usin the nigg(er)!! Smh…I always say, self hating black men are NO DIFFERENT than racist whites. One in the same….so very sad….

    BI: Ima have to go with the DraRajianna trio. Pronounced (Dray-Rah-Jee-Ahna) Lol… Drake+Taraji+Rihanna.

    Umm…I didn’t know Raven Symone came out!! So did Queen Latifah..wow… Okay brothas, if the sistas can come out, so can y’all!! Kanye? Jackie Long? Ray J? Jaheim? Lil Wayne? Baby? Which one wants to go first??? I see ya peeking out Omarion…it’s okay, it’s safe out here, black women don’t want y’all anymore since y’all discarded us first…!!!!!

  11. I don’t know how but I’m always taken back at our self hatred & desire to be accepted by middle America.

    Speaking of Nas someone told me DMX did not show up last night here in Detroit for their concert. Let me check on that because if it wasn’t a riot at Chene Park I know better.

  13. Wow, maybe Im slow, but didnt she just retweet the name of the song on Jay z’s album? Umm, if it was her original thought or phrase, I think Id be like Wow, but shes obviously cool with them and they arent so worked up…. should we be? So if a white person were reading the name of that song out loud to ppl would that person be considered racist? What if a white person posted the song as their fav song on the album, on facebook… would they also be racist? Are Kanye and Jay Z racist for coming up with that name for the song, since nobody but black ppl can repeat it without a race war?

    • That’s what I heard(I haven’t read her comments) but it’s the intent behind the defense is what I’m rising an eyebrow to. How quickly these black men come to defend a white woman when black women are degraded on many levels daily. But in their defense, could it be these remarks are getting headlines over others.

      • Maybe, I think the defensive remarks of Nas may be getting headlines just bc of the story getting headlines. Now, for me, Nas’ song Daughters, for men with daughters speaks volumes. I do think the media puts too much emphasis on the headline that gets clicked on the most and that in turn will be the story that is rewritten and re-discussed over and over and over.

        • It was a rumor a long time ago, when Kelis got that big settlement, some DJ said Nas was thinking about slinging. Kelis had him whipped for a minute and then it played out, he showed up drunk at the hospital after she gave birth, he feuded with Pac for a minute. Nas ain’t all that.

    • That was her response. ” I was tweeting the song title”. Personally I think Jay (who I’m not a fan of at all) titled it that.

  15. @ Teina…Yup thats exactly right!
    OAN If Nas said some shit like that, then she must being doing a lot behind the scenes that we must not know of???

  16. First of all great front page!!

    50 Cent and El Debarge confidants. I would have never imagined. Babyface and El DeBarge worked together and are/were friends.

    It’s so sad about the Black women who were raped:-( :-(

  18. Stop supporting artist who do things you don’ t like. Hit them in their pockets.

    Jay and Kanye should never have titled their song with that word in it, knowing how offensive it is. I guess since they are wealthy they feel they are no longer considered that word – WRONG!

    Gweneth should have know better to re-tweet that word…she could have re-tweeted she like the lastest song by Jay and Kanye and let ppl figure it out on their own but if WE are ok calling each other that name some might say why should we be offended if someone else call US that name????

    I wondered how Gweneth, Jay and Bey hooked up…seem like an odd group.

    • Black women will support them, they supporting rappers who called them derogatory names. They’ll be unfazed, low self esteem. Black women even support black men who say they’ll never date black women.

      • Black women even support black men who say they’ll never date black women.

        And that baffles me the most. they will be high-fiving and swooning all over them too.

  20. It was always rumored that Keith Sweat put the stomp down on Lisa, don’t know how he got custody. Pacquio fight was a farce. Who the hell pays all that money for a license plate, talk about crazy as hell. I heard on a radio show that 50 and Face got El into rehab, sent a car for him and everything. Damn about Stevie Wonder’s mom, she went through it, no wonder Stevie doesn’t talk about his dad. Jay and Ye should never have named their song that, Gwen wrong as hell, I agree with everything Q-Tip said.

  21. On the old board, somebody said Diddy was kissing Gwen Stephani’s ass at some show. We know Diddy could buy her over 200 times but I guess since she’s white, he feels she’s better than him. Brings me back to Paltrow, all these kneegrows need their asses whipped, especially the Dream, his dumb ass tried to take blame for tweeting what Paltrow tweeted and then he backed off when somebody called him out on it. If Kim K. was black, she wouldn’t be pulling these rich men Reggie and Kanye, a black woman would have been crucified for making a sex tape, it’s a double standard. Great front page.

  22. Selective outrage, why aren’t blacks mad at other blacks for using that word. As soon as a white person says it, they go ballistic. White people get comfortable after they hear you using it among each other. Ain’t no way in the world will I allow a white man or white woman to call me that, I don’t even let my black friends call me that. Why aren’t Jay-Z and Kanye getting criticized like that Paltrow chick, they’re all in the wrong.

    • If your white friends respect you they will never use that word even if you call them my n*****. I’ve heard some of my non-black friends call themselves some of everything but I would not disrespect them by saying the same. It’s like you can talk about your family to your friends but you don’t expect them to agree…just let you vent.

    • Exactly my point also, it seems crazy that Jay-Z and Kanye can name a song N*** in Paris, that automatically means non black ppl cant even repeat the title without a thrashing. I think they deserve thrashing too, but then again.. any publicity for some equals good publicity. They named it that way for publicity and Paltrow just put them on some more.

    • Correct BP! They become all to comfortable with what they hear. We should be mindful of types of material we support in comedy, drama and music.

  23. Sleeping with strippers, really? Co-sign on the names guessed. Great front page, Rubi rode hard til the wheels fell off. Wow- what did he die of? He was always said to be Black friendly and took money from White benefactors and lavished it on Black women- isn’t he mixed? Gwennie knew what she was doing. She doesn’t live in a vacuum. She added the words for real after the song title. I believe that’s where the most controversy was stirred. I heard her twitter followers tore her a new one. Instant additional publicity for the tour. She is so meh to me! It is true that some try to hard for main stream approval. Stay clean El- people are pulling for u!

    • Many moons ago, I remember reading that Rubi died in a car accident, I think his steering column crushed his chest, if I’m not mistaken. I’m assuming he’s unaroused on the front page and he’s feeling out those pants, my oh my, can you imagine him being aroused. This man was a beast. I remember reading on the front page that he dated Eartha and pursued Dorothy and Lena, bought gifts for them with white woman money.

      • *giggle* if only you knew, Drake has a sociopath personality, he’ll tell you what you want to hear but he won’t tell you what he’s really thinking. I’ve heard women say how fine he is, and I’ve heard women say he’s gross. Serena had to have him, I wouldn’t be surprised if she tried to do a bought and paid for because some of the things I’ve read about her, she’s pretty needy when it comes to men.

  25. Pac man fight was so rigged. Don’t know what that was about but the WBO title reminds me of the movie “Great White Hype” – too funny.

  27. Okay, Usher says he’s a good looking man and now he’s loves listening to his records, nothing wrong with self confidence but Usher’s best years are behind him and he comes off as arrogant.

  28. Lisa Wu, I hope you don’t think you’re the only one. A.I. has C list women all over, he can’t pull A-list women anymore, his funds are low. He got with you after his limelight faded. El, I guess you couldn’t find a family member to be a sponsor since they’re all addicted. Good luck to you, people are rooting for you. There’s another side to Curtis that he doesn’t like to show, he has to keep his gangsta hard persona on at all times. Curtis is sensitive and loves to talk for hours. It’s hard for him to trust.

    • You ain’t ever lied. Dude tried to get to know all of Detroit when he played for the Pistons. Even the fellas were talking about him in the strip clubs, like he never went home lol

      • You better speak on it, A.I. is trying to build his stacks back up, impending divorce, don’t want to lose his baller status. Lisa is D-list at best, if A.I. comes into money, he’ll kick her to the curb. He’s addicted to strip clubs, gambling, just like Nelly. Quickest way to lose your money.

  30. BLIND ITEM: “CRACK CHEF”

    This young singer has stated in interviews that one of his role models is an old school artist who was on top in the late 70′s with dance music. He ruled the charts with his sound.

    The young singer was thrilled when he met his idol but besides music, they shared another trait, their love for drugs.

    Sometimes I wonder if drug abuse is part of the young singer’s DNA (hint).

    Before long, instead of discussing music, the old schooler started teaching the young schooler how to cook rocks (crack).

    Old schooler is a crack chef, similar to the chefs on the Food Channel, only difference, his speciality is rocks. He has the practice down to a science, so much so, he could probably cook them blindfolded.

    They have been working on a collaboration for nearly a year, they hardly get anything done because the studio has a stove downstairs and they’re always down there cooking and smoking crack.

    When they come upstairs to record, they’re so high, they can barely function, let along sing.

    When the young schooler gets low on money, he cleans up just enough to go on tour, even though his shows are lackluster at best, he’s basically performing so he can afford his neverending crack addiction.

    One of his friends (a singer in the industry) has tried to talk him into getting clean but he doesn’t listen.

    The old schooler is so old, you would think he wouldn’t even know what crack was, but he’s content on being a life long addict.

    Who is the new schooler?

    Who is the old schooler?

    Who is the friend (singer in the industry) who tries to talk the young schooler into getting clean?

  31. Is it only me or does this Commerce Secretary scandal have the TV show Scandal written all over it? All at once, dude had a seizure, hmmm. I guess this will explain him hitting random cars like a fucking crack head, damage control at it’s finest. I’m on the late train, RIP Donna Summer but she was too white orientated for me, when she heard her first kid with her yt husband, she was awwing and oohing about the baby’s Aryan features. She shut up when she got a backlash.

    • I feel ya on that one. I’ve noticed it’s really bad with a lot of older blacks – they were just raised that way and some of things they say about their own children & grandchildren whew!

      • Yes True Blood came back last night, it was good, it should be on demand since you missed it.
        Who do you think is the killer on The Killing?

        • I know everyone guessing Jamie – he jumped to number 1 on the web site – but I’m going to go with the father.

          What was up with the pic in his desk draw?

          • Every episode it makes you think it is someone different who did it. I think the Aunt had something to do with it, and Ames also. That was weird that he kept that photo of Rosie dead in that trunk like that.

  34. O/T what the hell happened to Martin Lawerence. I’m watching a rerun of Martin and thinking he had talent. He was doing comedy tours, tv and movies. Today, he can’t even get a pilot on tv…what contract did he break or whose cheerios did he piss in?

  36. what’s the other blind? Oh I think I read Chico finally filed for divorce last
    month and is asking for paternity test for one or two of the kids. I think I saw
    this on TMZ. Said they had been seperated for quite a few years…

  37. RIP Belita…another one of George’s family has passed. He must have a strong constitution with all of his alleged drug use (Crack Chef). Guess he has to perform to the end…With Belita, Stringray Davis and Garry Diaperman Shider gone does he have a show to tour?

    • Well Caramel it’s like this from my stand point of view..Belita was underrated but one of the best..check out her early work when she was a member of the group Brainstorm..my favorite cd..”Journey To The Light”..a classic beyond a doubt. Now to the question..does he/Clinton have a show to tour?..yea him and a bunch of noise makers trying to capture his glory days..can’t/never will be done. Most of the members that helped shape his sound are dead or no longer performing..I won’t pay 5 dollars to see his show..it’s nothing more than a caricature but that don’t stop me from listening to his music..The Clones Of Dr.Funkenstein a funky horn driven classic..Clinton at his best.Oh yea I can’t forget to add Glen Goins to your list Caramel..he was one of the all time greats with Clinton at that time.When a group has that main ingredient/sound and they lose it..there is no recovering..case in point when Jeffery Osborne departed LTD..Teddy Pendergrass departed Harold Melvin Bluenotes..Lionel Richie departed The Commodores..Steve Arrington departed Slave..Michael J.departed The Jacksons..Maurice White..not with EWF because of illiness..Tony Washington lead singer/Dynamic Superiors deceased. Without that “IT” factor the hits stop coming.

  38. Hey PR Family :)

    Thanks Trinity, I remember that BI (LOL @Crack Chef)

    GS so good to see you :)

    Gwen knew what she was doing, I don’t have any sympathy for her, just like the black folks cozy up to the white folks for status/acceptance….there are white folks that do it to. They better recognize….white folks cozy up to them to steel their ideas etc….

  42. Wow at Richard G. All I could think about was this blind item from 2007:

    So this former A list teen television and movie star of the 80′s is basically out of money because of a stale career and a serious drug habit. The only thing he has left to sell is his house. So, he calls a real estate agent and she comes over to look at the house and decide what it’s worth. Well the first one is there for all of about five minutes when our actor starts hitting on her and trying to have sex with her and she basically flees. After many apologies, the broker sends over a man this time and he walks through the house. The house is in a great location and should sell for $4 or $5 million IF it was in good shape. The problems with the house are (a) multiple sections of the wall show fire damage from freebasing incidents gone bad (b) one of the second floor bathrooms has no floor because one night our actor got drunk and thought about putting a fire pole from the 2nd floor to the first and basically took a sledgehammer and knocked it all out. There is a door, a toilet and a tub. No counter or floor anywhere else. (c) The kitchen is covered in mold. The floors, the walls, any exposed surface are covered in it as well as rodent droppings and roaches everywhere. (d) the entire house smells like death and rehab. While the agent is walking through the house, our actor is doing one line of coke after another and keeps offering the agent one and is getting more and more offended that the agent will not share or participate. He then starts thinking the agent is actually a policeman and goes to find his gun. (Why he would get his gun if he thought it was a cop is beyond me) While looking for his gun, the agent gets the hell out and no one has been back. Meanwhile, people do sometimes hire this guy for work, but only enough to keep him in drugs. (Not the Corey’s although I wouldn’t want to go to their place either). Richard Grieco

  43. I hope that”s just a bad picture of Richard Greico when he was on 21 Jumpstreet I always thought he was a cutie.

    I never thought Erin Moren was pretty from the times she was on episodes of My Three Sons and early Happy Days. I saw her on something recently and she was looking pissed over being exposed to living in a trailer park. I felt kinda sorry for her. The actress from Maude looks the same she still wears the same hairstyle from back in the day.

    That was just a tip of the iceburg of actors and actress who didn’t age well. The actress who play Tracy from the Partridge Family looks like a lumber jack, the two twin actress who play Carrie on Little House on the Prairie last time I saw them look like they been at the lumber yard too.. The actress who play Dody on My Three Sons……. well add another lumber cause she’s jacked too

  44. , Ice-T said people have to respect Nicki Minaj’s growth as an artist. “I think it’s all “real hip-hop.”

    LOL Ice-T should have been a comedian with that statement above. Nicki Minaj as real hip-hop. She has a gimmick. Her style has been done before she was even a twinkle in her parents eyes duh…. Millie Jackson and then Lil Kim as Soultrain mentioned jacked Millie Jackson’s style too.
    Nicki Minjai just copied cat Lil Kim and Millie Jackson’s style LMAO!! @ Ice-T.

      • I read somewhere and it may have been on this site that her home in Hollywood (I believe) burned like an inferno and she was consumed by the fire…also, that white lady who spearheaded the removal of prayer in schools, her son in law cut her and another family member up and then scattered their body parts throughout the southwest parts of the U.S. and when they caught him and interviewed him, he said her last words were, “oh God, why”?

    • The Motion also asked for him to go into General Pop. Him being confined for 23 hours a day ccording to his lawyer will cause irreversible harm to his body. lmfao… It also asks for “house arrest”. The motion was argued today, so I guess he’ll know soon since it was filed Ex-Parte.

    • He needs to keep his butt in jail. If it was anyone else they would be buried alive. But becuase he has money & fame he gets a pass? I don’t think so.

  48. Did you guys hear that Vanessa is foregoing the divorce. TMZ Says she has until Monday to sign final papers but that she’s not. I knew this was coming. No way she was letting all that loot and access go even will her settlement she got. All the assets that were transferred already to her do they just go back into the community property pot??? Or is she keeping that as her separate property????

  49. Mary, Mary, Mary wow!! I remember reading on the old boards that Kendu & Salt’s husband of Salt N’ Pepa frequent the strip clubs all the time.

    • You know, I don’t have the duckets that Mary Mary has. What I realize is it that is too hard to start over. If I remarry I don’t want to fork over a lot of dough if things don’t work out. I’m also not a prison candidate–before I would fork out a lot of dough, spouse would somehow be found in a bodybag. Surely, she took some precautions! She has/had access to legal council. Come on, Mary!

      • I agree Mary was sweeped off her feet by Kendu. I remember reading about 10 years ago in S2S magazine how she met this wonderful man and how he this and that hm…

        • Yes!!!!!! & how she credits him with saving her life. smh….What is wrong with these folks not protecting themselves???/ No excuses.

          If Kim marries Kanye watch that Pre-Nup Kris is going to put together.

    • Salts husband looks bored as hell with her, I can believe this. Kendu ran master game on Mary, pin pointed her weaknesses and preyed on them with his roly poly deadbeat ass, he was married when he got with Mary, karma.

  51. Punk ass Negro been beating women for years, didn’t 50 cent hold her son back when little man tried to help? He’ll think twice about beating women in the future. He gave his fiancee this engagement ring and got mad when his baby mama started dating another man, Floyd wanted his cake and wanted to eat his cake. I don’t care how much time he spends with his kids or how he financially supports them, a good dad would never hit a woman and never beat them in front of the kids.

  52. Good evening, Family. Have you all been reviewing the scandalous internet info on Kimora, Djimon and the alleged third party in their marriage? Please Lord, do let this be true. Errythang on blast…!

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