BEYONCE

lAURYN HILL must be laughing her ass off right now in Egypt (or wherever else she escaped to). Let me get this straight: Beyonce tells some magazine that she won't let the media drive her crazy like they did Lauryn, then, B turns around and bites L'Boogie's infamous stance in an interview with Blender. And here I was wondering why the hell her sales on B'Day fell by as much as 70% last week and 44% this week (86,608 units).

Peep game:


Beyonce, 25, said in an interview with Blender magazine: "I make black records. I write records like I speak, and I don't try to change my songs so everyone else likes them."

The funniest part of the whole saga is that Ms. Blackness was nowhere to be found at the blackest of all black music awards, the Music of Black Origin awards:


Meanwhile, Beyonce was booed at the MOBO awards in London on Wednesday night when she failed to turn up to collect her three prizes. The Crazy In Love singer received the most awards after her single Deja Vu won the Best Song and Best Video categories and she was named Best International Female at the ceremony - which recognises music of black origin. (Source)

So, not only did the white folks, who constitute a majority of the music-buying population, turn their backs on Bey, her own people also turned on her. What a shame. Typically, Papa Knowles came out swinging, insisting that fans were actually booing the MOBOs, and not his precious daughter.

"Fans who paid their money to see Beyoncé and other U.S. artists that won multiple awards were frustrated with the MOBO's after Beyoncé was announced three times in the evening in three categories she had won. That's just bad TV," Knowles said. "The smart thing would have been to combine all three." (Source)
What's so hard for these artists to grasp? You make music for massa. You could make your CD with the inscription BLACK in bold graffitti letters on it if you like, it won't change a damn thing. At the end of the day, the T.I.s at your record company get to pick your final track list to ensure that it's "commercial" enough to yield money for them. And guess who buys most hip-hop and r & b music at the end of the day?