“Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”
Philip K. Dick, Valis
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PEACE TO CHANG! PEEP THIS AND REALIZE HOW GOD DAMN IMPORTANT ROCK THE BELLS IS:
Rock The Bells 2008 Press Conference
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NOW IN FROM THE 'ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR DEPARTMENT':
Following in the footsteps of former video vixen Karrine "Superhead" Steffans and Nas' ex-lover and mother of his child, Carmen Bryan, there's another Hip Hop tell-all book on the horizon--this time focused on the dirty laundry of rapper/actor Mos Def.
Alana Wyatt-Smith, 29, a former stripper, video vixen (Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot") and grade seven-drop out from Toronto has penned Breaking the Code of Silence, a memoir of her 2005 marriage to Mos Def which apparently happened three days after they met, as well as encounters with various professional athletes and celebs, including Kanye West.
Wyatt-Smith recently told The Toronto Star would prefer to distance her book from that of Steffans and Bryan, insisting that it's not an "exposé," because she disguises the identities of the bulk of her lovers.
"I disagree with putting names of people in there, just out of respect for their wives and children," said Wyatt-Smith to The Toronto Star. "If this was about making money, getting rich, I could have wrote a tell-all book, 10 times better than Karrine Steffans. People want to know about the biggest names in the NBA, who proposed to who, and did what, and this and that; I could have put some stuff in there that would have made it a number one seller within days. I use nicknames, initials, that myself and the gentleman would know; the ones named I got permission from."
But apparently she neglects to extend this same respect of privacy to Mos Def whom she even goes as far as accusing he physically abused her.
In her book, Wyatt-Smith writes:
"I don't believe that his intent was to hurt me, I believe that he was trying to prove a point. But I had shared and cried with him many nights about my past (abusive) situation and I asked of him not to do that, because it brings back memories; so I found it to be more disrespectful, because he knew what I had been through."
Wyatt-Smith said she didn't press charges after Mos Def's first abusive outburst because she didn't "want to cause problems" thinking that the incident was "a first and last."
Wyatt-Smith also claims there were several attempts at reconciliation, but that Mos Def, who has six children with four different women, was too demanding and overprotective of her. They have not been together since October 2006, but despite a $115,000 financial settlement are not officially divorced.
"He won't sign the papers," she told The Toronto Star. "He told my lawyer if he can't have me, nobody else will."
Breaking the Code of Silence is in stores now.
WWW.HIPHOPDX.COM
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MARK MCKAY IS THE MOTHERFUCKIN MAN:
ALWAYS WATCH HIS SHOWS!
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MOS DEF PERFORMED WITH GIL SCOTT-HERON?! JESUS CHRISTMAS I HOPE SOMEBODY VIDEOTAPED THAT SHIT!
On Saturday, the world famous Carnegie Hall played host to the Mos Def Big Band with special guest Gil Scott-Heron as part of the JVC Jazz Festial New York. From carnegiehall.org: “Already a wildly successful vocalist, musician, and actor, Mos Def has taken the next logical step with the creation of the Mos Def Band, rolling hip hop, jazz, and soul into one thrilling sound. Special guest Gil Scott-Heron first made his name decades ago with his no-nonsense anthem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Together, the two artists have created an evening of music and spoken words with material drawn from Miles Davis, Beyoncé, James Brown, and others.”
One of said “others” was Jay Electronica, who Mos gave serious props to with an acepella version of the second verse from “Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)” followed by the orchestra playing a piece of Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine composition.”
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AND FOR THE RECORD: FUCK SOULJA BOY'S BULLSHIT MUSIC. HE'S A GOOD ENTERTAINER AND A DECENT BUSINESSMAN, BUT HE'S A DISRESPECTFUL CHILD AND A SHITTY EXCUSE FOR A RAPPER! I'M ROLLIN WITH ICE-T ~AND METHOD MAN~ ON THIS ONE!
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LOVE!
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