“Tina sticks her nose in everything because she’s also Ashanti’s manager. She’s always pushing Ashanti to make more money, to always look great. It stresses her out, and Nelly doesn’t like that”.

“Janet and Jermaine finally hit a wall. They were fighting over his management of her career. In the end, she decided to make a break.”

The music these days seem to be quite the pressure cooker for most males out there. This pressure is not equivalent to taking an SAT exam (back when it was just verbal & math) or maybe dealing with a defensive line that is pulling off the most impossible pass rush and you have to throw a TD to save your life. No, not that kind of pressure. The kind of pressure am I referring to is that “when will it happen pressure”, the pressure of kneeling on it.

The music that is leading the way for the male pressure gauge is Beyonce’s single ‘Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It). This single got me upset and some other male folks a bit tight. This track have women putting their left hand forward as if it needs high priced accessory to go with their Vietnamese groomed French manicure. So a brief pseudo “Meet the Press” type of discussion was conceived amongst the brain trust.

BLACK BRUCE WAYNE: Mrs. Beyonce Knowles-Carter has done it again! No, I don’t mean making another smash hit single, but making another single that is going to put the hot fire on the back of brothers necks until her next single comes around. Like, what the HELL IS SHE DOIN’ FAM!!!

SEATTLE WASHINGTON: Bruce, it was a progression. First she was asking dudes to pay her bills, then she got overzealous telling guys that she doesn’t need their help. I don’t think I would’ve made it to her telling me to put a ring on it or get out. I definitely would’ve left right after she showed me the AT&T bill.

BLACK BRUCE WAYNE: First off, I’m amazed at the audacity of a female like Beyonce to make a song of this magnitude!!! She apparently doesn’t understand her influence on women.

SEATTLE WASHINGTON: She’s on the verge of being like Oprah. Watch out for Beyonce’s Book Club in 2018.

BBW: She needs to make one thing clear in the song – she is already married. So she can’t really relate to the down, depressed, ice cream eating femmes out there.

“We did that thing where you look at somebody and you talk to them for two seconds and then you’re like “What was that? That was interesting. I didn’t know what it was but I liked it. I do believe in love at first sight.”

“I want to have kids. But I want to have the right girl too – someone who really cares about me.”
“It’s lonely at the top,” he told reporters Tuesday at a London listening party for the new album. “Losing my mom, having no woman in my life to support me – I feel like I’m on my own and can only express it through my music.”

“It’s not that we had no intimacy. It’s just me, and my feelings. I definitely don’t want to push it on anybody else. But we both have similar beliefs, and I just thought that it would be so much more special if we waited until after we were married. And it was, and it still is.”

“We were together for a really long time before we got married; we were in no rush. We don’t have a normal relationship because of our careers. But celebrity or not, you go through the exact same things. We’re not perfect.”

“You know what, I did. But he doesn’t act like it (younger) - he’s really very intelligent. He’s a very business-minded person, but he’s also a lot of fun so you don’t really think about those things. It is what it is.I’ve been with someone older and that could be a disaster or maybe you have to throw that side away and don’t think about it - think about who’s right for you.”