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Aubrey O'Day. You look a mess. Calling Lil Kim's plastic surgeon was not a good look. Neither is your trying to stay relevant. It does give us a few laughs and shivers though.
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TheYBF.com's founder NATASHA EUBANKS is covering the January 2010 issue of BLACK ENTERPRISE!
Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Friday, January 15, 2010
Just when you thought the hoopla of Chrihannagate ‘09 had gone away, Rihanna’s brand new interview with W magazine brings up some old…and new revelations. The mag’s February cover girl says about her former love Chris Brown:
“There were control issues, insecurity. When people are insecure they become very controlling and they can get very aggressive and in turn abusive. It doesn’t have to be physical. Like they would say bad stuff to you to make you feel lesser than them just so they would have control in the relationship. It takes a big toll on your emotions and on your everyday life. It changes you.”
Interesting. Especially because many people in Chris’ camp have been very vocal since the incident saying words like these about Rihanna herself. More snippets from Rih’s interview when you read the rest….
Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Friday, December 4, 2009
Here’s Chris Browns “20/20″ interview that aired tonight with Robin Roberts. Chris did not discuss any details from that now infamous night. Only what has come of it since.
He also confirmed that Rihannadid in fact hear the “Changed Man” song he wrote and sang specifically for her, despite her saying during her own “20/20″ interview that she never heard it. Chris said he actually played it for Rihanna the day he wrote it, and she cried.
On a side note, it sounds like we weren’t the only ones who were mad at the MJ tributes at the BET Awards. Here’s what Chris had to say about it in the upcoming issue of VIBE:
You were removed from the BET Awards show when the Michael Jackson tribute was happening. As a supreme MJ fab, that had to hurt.
CB: It was wack. I’ll keep it a hundred. The BET Awards was horrible. I was watching it, holding my face like, “Oh my God, this is wack.” I didn’t get it. Michael Jackson was such a big entertainer. And I’m not dissing any of the artists who did the songs. But I was expecting a lot more of energy for Michael. And BET Awards usually comes hard. I was expecting them to have Usher, Omarion and even Justin. And I was expecting Ne-Yo to dance. They were so bent on getting me there that they messed up their own show.
Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Saturday, November 7, 2009
The ish everybody’s been waiting 9 months to hear. Rihanna’s 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer aired tonight. And she spoke about what happened with Chris Brown on the night in question, why she went back to him, what she thinks about his apology, and how and why she left him for good.
Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Friday, November 6, 2009
Chris Brown did an interview with Sway of MTV about the entire Chrihannagate scandal involving his ex-girlfriend Rihanna. It’s only his second tv interview since the situation occurred, and it aired just hours ago. Here’s part 1.
Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Friday, November 6, 2009
Here’s another 5 minute sneak peek of Rihanna’s interview on “20/20″ tonight.
Basically she talks about that night in question–catching Chris in a lie after finding a text message, things “getting ugly” when she wouldn’t stop questioning him, and how he had a soul-less look in his eyes while he beat her:
“It wasn’t the same person that says I love you. It was not those… eyes,” she told Sawyer in an exclusive interview. “He had … no soul in his eyes. Just blank. …He was clearly blacked out. There was no person when I looked at him.”
The February 2009 assault left the 21-year-old battered and bruised, and Brown was sentenced to five years of probation, community labor, and one year of domestic-violence counseling.
“All I kept thinking all the time: When is it going to stop? When it is going to stop?” she said.
She also goes on to say she does not hate him and wishes him well. Click here to read more transcript from the full interview we can’t see here.
Chris’ friends/dancers/DJs’ responses when you read the rest…
Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Sounds like Chris Brown has a whole team of men on his side. The National Coalition For Men has just put out a statement stating they stand by CB. And they are calling for Rihanna to fess up about her reported violence against Chris as well:
LOS ANGELES/EWORLDWIRE/Nov. 5, 2009 — Pop singer Rihanna recently made a widely publicized statement to Glamour Magazine that she wants to “shed light on the reality of domestic violence.” The National Coalition For Men (NCFM) calls on Rihanna to discuss her own reported violence against Brown as well if she wants to shed light on the problem honestly.
According to court records and other sources, Rihanna struck Brown in the face “numerous times” before Brown assaulted her (‘http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/768865/rihanna-hit-chris-brow…’). NCFM purports although that would not justify his more severe assault, her violence should not be ignored, and if she does not “woman up” to it then her message will be the usual one-sided double standards that leave female perpetration covered up.
The saying, “There is no excuse for domestic violence,” applies to both sexes. Female violence in relationships is not rare but is often hypocritically deemed acceptable or humorous, such as in the film, Sideways. It is part of the cycle of domestic violence, which cannot be stopped without addressing the problem honestly. Children are damaged just by witnessing domestic violence, regardless of its severity.
A 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire found women are as violent and as controlling as men in relationships worldwide (‘http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n’, ‘http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf’).
A major study funded by the Centers for Disease Control found one-fourth of heterosexual relationships had violence and: “half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases.” (‘http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941′)
The same study also found “while injury was more likely when violence was perpetrated by men, in relationships with reciprocal violence it was the men who were injured more often (25% of the time) than were women (20% of the time).” (‘http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a’)
Over 200 studies now confirm the same thing, that “women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners,” as California State University Professor Martin Fiebert shows in his online bibliography at ‘http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm’. This data is more reliable than criminal justice data because men are less likely to report the violence or to respond positively to crime surveys because society still does not consider female violence as much of a crime.
If Rihanna sincerely wants to raise awareness about domestic violence, NCFM calls on her to be forthcoming about her own violence and to address the problem honestly.
To learn more about the National Coalition of Free Men, contact Marc Angelucci at 626-319-3081
Posted by Natasha - Last updated: Thursday, November 5, 2009
ABC showed about 5 minutes of Rihanna’s upcoming “20/20″ interview this morning. It airs in full tomorrow night. She sounded pretty hurt and scared during this interview.
You can read a summary of what she said under the cut…
