Now, Canadian “model” Alana Wyatt-Smith, 29, a former stripper is getting in on the action with her tell all book entitled Breaking the Code of Silence.
In her book she gives an account of her tough childhood, a few encounters she’s had with a few celebrities and athletes as well as her 2005 marriage to rapper Mos Def which took place only after three short days of courtship. However, unlike Steffen and other’s, Wyatt-Smith keeps all names to herself.
According to TheStar.com Wyatt-Smith stated, “I disagree with putting names of people in there, just out of respect for their wives and children,” she said in an interview. “If this was about making money, getting rich, I could have wrote a tell-all book, 10 times better than Karrine Steffans … I use nicknames, initials, that myself and the gentleman would know; the ones named I got permission from.”
That statement went for everyone except for the main character in the book Mos Def.
Wyatt-Smith and Mos Def, whose real name is Dante Smith, eloped on August 17, 2005. By October 2006 she was filing for a divorce which stemmed from a heated argument the two were having that quickly turned abusive while on location for a movie he was filming in Brazil.
“I don’t believe that his intent was to hurt me…” Wyatt-Smith said. “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.”
Wyatt-Smith has not pressed charges against the rapper for the sake of not causing any problems. Although the couple hasn’t been together since late 2006, the two aren’t officially divorced due to the fact that she says, “He won’t sign the papers.”
Mos Def is rumored as saying if he can't have her, noone will.
Mos sounds a lil derranged, don't you think??
While discussing the story about Adam “Pacman” Jones wanting to drop his nickname on “Imus In The Morning,” anchor Warner Wolf told the 67-year-old talk show host that Jones had been arrested six times since he was drafted by Tennessee in 2005.
The following exchange happened:
“What color is he?”
“He’s African-American,” Wolf replied.
“Well, there you go,” Imus said. “Now we know.”
I’m sure you’re thinking here we go again.
An Activist Named Slickback, aka, Al Sharpton, has already issued a statement:
“I find the inference of his remark disturbing because it plays into stereotypes. Any use of stereotypes is always counterproductive. We will determine in the next day or so whether or not his remark warrants direct action on our part as we did in April of last year,” he said.
But before someone calls the National Association of Black Journalists to ask for his firing, let’s look back at what Hill said last week during a column about the Boston Celtics.
“Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It’s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.”
Hitler joke or Black joke (that you could probably back up with statistics)?
Both aren’t funny but shouldn’t be considered a big deal.
I’m going to take a guess and assume Hill won’t be on the front line calling for Imus’ firing this time around.
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The Grammy winner walked onto the festival stage nearly two hours past his scheduled 2:45 a.m. performance time Sunday morning and was greated by bleary-eyed fans' chorus of boos and chants of "Kanye sucks."
West was originally set to kick things off at 8:15 p.m., but because he wanted to make the most of his Glow-in-the-Dark Tour's lighting show, the hip-hopster's camp asked to push back the gig to 2:45 a.m. following Pearl Jam's show.
However, the Seattle grunge rockers' gig lasted an hour longer than planned, with Eddie Vedder and bandmates not wrapping until 1:15 a.m. Then there was an extended break while Pearl Jam's roadies disassembled the band's stage and West's crew set up his own elaborate backdrop, a glow-in-the-dark spaceship along with undulating black platform and raised video screen.Organizers posted a message via Jumbotron that the "Can't Tell Me Nothing" rapper wouldn't be taking the stage until 3:15 a.m., then 3:30. When 4:15 a.m. rolled around and still no West, the antsy crowd began hurling glow sticks at the stage and screaming anti-West sentiments. Bonnaroo officials didn't help the matter, not informing festivalgoers why the changeover was taking so long.
West finally made his entrace at 4:30 a.m., but by then, many exhausted attendees had had enough and returned to their tents.
Apparently, they didn't miss too much.
Judging by online reviews, West's performance didn't stand out from the 150 acts performing at the four-day musical campout. In fact, it was a yawner.
"He was two hours late, cut his show short, didn't once acknowlegde the crowd that waited two hours on an already late show, not even a wave goodbye...I'm no longer a Kanye fan, huge disappointment," one fan wrote at the music blog Stereogum.com.
"It's not the stage hands' fault; that stage was set up for well over an hour before Kanye decided to grace us with his presence," wrote another attendee on VillageVoice.com. "The next time he holds that finger up and proclaims himself as #1, I hope someone tells him what he can do with that finger."
Per festival reports, West failed to even acknowledge his tardiness.
The bad vibes carried over to Sunday's daytime slate, when during his set pedal-steel guitar virtuoso Robert Randolph groused about West's behavior, prompting fans to reprise the "Kanye sucks" chant.
There was no immediate comment from the West camp.
