Hip-hop Wives Respond to "Superhead"
purrffecttbliss
“I love my husband. And it’s going to take more than a broke-down
b!tch to make me leave him. So there you go.”--AISHA ATKINS
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The wives of hip hop celebrities have all the trappings of their
husband’s successes: huge diamond rings, impressive homes, and luxury
cars. But there are some things these women want that aren’t just for
sale, and their real lives rarely match the fantasies of the girls who
dream about marrying a wealthy rapper. Often alone while their
husbands work far from home, these women raise children, and manage
households. Fighting insecurity, they try to keep the fires burning in
the bedroom, though it’s well known that rappers, married or not,
cavort with admiring honeys. But most of these women were with their
men before the money, videos, and the fame. And they insist they’ll be
there long after. Not without cost, though.
You can’t talk to a rapper’s wife without bringing up Karrine
‘Superhead’ Steffans, whose best-selling ‘Confessions of a Video
Vixen' boasted of her sexual exploits with several high profile MC’s,
some of whom are married with children. Aisha Atkins, 29, whose
husband, Ja Rule, 30, was identified in the book, is not buying the
story about the hotel room-trashing sex marathon Superhead claims she
had with him. “I don’t believe what she said,” Aisha says. “I love my
husband. And it’s going to take more than a broke-down b!tch to make
me leave him. So there you go.” Aisha is generally not much of a
talker--until you come at her with rumors about Ja Rule. Together
since high school and married since 2001, she is the mother of his 3
children. She’s been holding her man down since day one. While he sold
drugs and tried to get on in the rap game, Aisha worked eight-hour
double shifts for $10.50 an hour at a home for the mentally ill. When
she heard the rumors about her husband and Steffans, she confronted
him immediately. Her husband denied any relationship, and Aisha is
standing by her man. “I was 14 when I fell in love with Jeff,” says
Aisha. “I lost my virginity to him. So I don’t care what other people
say. This is my household, and this is my marriage.”
“I don’t think he’s out there being faithful,” Tashera says. “I hope
he is. But I wouldn’t put it past him.”--TASHERA SIMMONS
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According to Vibe magazine, Tashera Simmons, 34, first ran into DMX
when she was 10 years old and he was 11. Raised in Yonkers, N.Y., in a
strict Muslim household, she was not allowed outside except to go to
school. On a rare, unsupervised trip to the store one day, she says
she watched as Earl Simmons, her future husband, robbed an old woman.
“I knew he was bad,” says Tashera. “But I’d never had any excitement
in my life, so he was like my hero. I used to think about him all the
time after that day.” Eight years later a mutual friend introduced her
to Simmons at a party, and they’ve been inseparable ever since. Asked
about DMX’s well-chronicled drug issues, Tashera chooses her words
carefully. “It’s not like they say in the papers,” she professes. “He
has more of a drinking problem than drugs.” In addition to his well
publicized traffic violations, he’s had several run-ins with the law,
including a case in 2004 when he reportedly impersonated a federal
agent in a failed car-theft attempt at JFK airport. “He just has a
road rage problem,” she insists. (Tashera’s apparently got a lead foot
too: Earlier this year she was charged with speeding, driving an
unregistered vehicle, and not using child restraints on her four kids
in upstate New York.)
As for their love life, she frankly admits that she believes her
husband has cheated on her. “I don’t think he’s out there being
faithful,” Tashera says. “I hope he is. But I wouldn’t put it past
him.” In 2004 a woman named Monique Wayne claimed that DMX fathered
her son after she met the rapper in a nightclub, reports say. A
paternity test and court order later, he began paying $5,000 a month
in child support. “Truthfully, I wouldn’t let that break our family
up,” Tashera says. She crosses her fingers. “We’re tight. All I know
is that whatever he does, at the end of the day it’s all about me.”
Connecting over having similarly dysfunctional families, Tashera and
DMX cemented their me-and-you-against-the-world bond while they were
still teenagers. She says that’s one reason they’ve lasted through so
much. “It’s our background that keeps me strong,” she says. “If I’d
just gotten in the relationship and I heard about babies and
Superhead, I wouldn’t be here.” Tashera was being chauffeured to a
hair salon when she first heard about [Karrine] Steffans book
‘Confessions of a Video Vixen’. The driver mentioned the name
Superhead several times and hinted that Tashera should know who the
woman was. “I didn’t know who she was talking about,” she says. The
chauffeur handed over the book and turned to the page in which
Steffans described a sexual relationship with DMX. Outraged, Tashera
says she clocked the driver in the head with the book. After
confronting her husband, he told her he didn’t remember Steffans. “I
was more mad about the way I found out than anything else,” says
Tashera. “Truthfully, it doesn’t matter. Everything in that book she
could have got from watching MTV’s Diary. She said he growled when
they were having sex. He ain’t never growled with me. Maybe he had a
one-night stand with her and she took it somewhere else.”
purrffecttbliss
...more from the Vibe Article...(I'm actually trying to find the
entire text online, but instead I'm only finding parts of it.)
Rappers’ Wives: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
By: Aliya S. King
July 11, 2006
The wives of famous rappers may seem to have it all—designer clothes,
fabulous rocks, fairy-tale cribs—but they don’t usually talk to
reporters about their family dramas of love, scandal, and infidelity.
ALIYA S. KING gets past the mansions’ front gates to hear about their
raw feelings and the search for meaning in their lives.
Felecia Howse’s youngest son pops out of his parents’ bedroom on the
first floor of their massive house in an Atlanta suburb. He is naked
and not the least bit ashamed. “Potty!” he screams. His brother, two
years older, tells him to put on some clothes. The baby yells, “No!”
and begins to run around. Felecia takes a deep breath and smiles. An
aspiring singer, she is married to Steven Howse, 31, better known as
rapper Layzie Bone, of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Between them, the couple
has seven kids at home, and they’re raising the four children of
Layzie’s brother, who’s currently incarcerated. “Even with all of
this,” she says, sweeping a hand toward the far corners of her
mansion, “in order for me to count, I have to contribute.” She
elaborates: “I have to be completely satisfied. And that happens when
I’m singing. If I’m not happy around here, nobody’s happy.”Being
married to a man whose rap quartet has sold more than 30 million
records worldwide doesn’t mean that your son will somehow potty-train
himself or that you can necessarily afford a live-in maid. It also
doesn’t mean that you’ll give up your aspirations of being a singer, a
designer, or an author.
The wives of hip hop celebrities have all the trappings of their
husband’s successes: huge diamond rings, impressive homes, and luxury
cars. But there are some things these women want that just aren’t for
sale, and their real lives rarely match the fantasies of the girls who
dream about marrying a wealthy rapper. Often alone while their
husbands work far from home, these women raise children and manage
households. Fighting insecurity, they try to keep the fires burning in
the bedroom, though it’s well-known that rappers, married or not,
cavort with admiring honeys. But most of these women were with their
men before the money, the videos, and the fame. And they insist
they’ll be there long after. Not without a cost, though.
Tashera Simmons, 34, first ran into DMX when she was 10 years old and
he was 11. Raised in Yonkers, N.Y., in a strict Muslim household, she
was not allowed outside except to go to school. On a rare,
unsupervised trip to the store one day, she says she watched as Earl
Simmons, her future husband, robbed an old woman. “I knew he was bad,”
says Tashera. “But I’d never had any excitement in my life, so he was
like my hero. I used to think about him all the time after that day.”
Eight years later a mutual friend introduced her to Simmons at a
party, and they’ve been inseparable ever since. Tashera is tall and
statuesque, with a figure that belives the children she has borne her
husband. Her hair, dark and thick, hangs past her shoulders, and she
occasionally brushes it out of her eyes. At a photo shoot in a
desolate area of the Bronx, she sits in a trailer reminiscing about
her early days with DMX while he poses outside. She cheerfully shows
off a picture of the youngest of their four children, Praise Mary
Ella, 2, and talks about her sewing classes. But when the conversation
turns more serious, Tashera lowers her voice to a whisper and steals a
look in her husband’s direction before saying anything.
Asked about DMX’s well-chronicled drug issues, Tashera chooses her
words carefully. “It’s not like they say in the papers,” she
professes. “He has more of a drinking problem than drugs.” In addition
to his well-publicized traffic violations, he’s had several run-ins
with the law, including a case in 2004 when he reportedly impersonated
a federal agent in a failed car-theft attempt at JFK Airport. “He just
has a road rage problem,” she insists. (Tashera’s apparently got a
lead foot too: Earlier this year she was charged with speeding,
driving an unregistered vehicle, and not using child restraints on her
four kids in upstate New York.) As for their love life, she frankly
admits that she believes her husband has cheated on her. “I don’t
think he’s out there being faithful,” Tashera says. “I hope he is. But
I wouldn’t put it past him.”
In 2004 a woman named Monique Wayne claimed that DMX fathered her son
after she met the rapper in a nightclub, reports say. A paternity test
and court order later, he began paying $5,000 a month in child
support. “Truthfully, I wouldn’t let that break our family up,”
Tashera says. She crosses her fingers. “We’re tight. All I know is
that whatever he does, at the end of the day it’s all about me.”
Connecting over having similarly dysfunctional families, Tashera and
DMX cemented their me-and-you-against-the-world bond while they were
still teenagers. She says that’s one reason they’ve lasted through so
much. “It’s our background that keeps me strong,” she says. “If I’d
just gotten in the relationship and I heard about babies and
Superhead, I wouldn’t be here.”
alexrinse
> they were having sex. He ain't never growled with me. Maybe he had a
> one-night stand with her and she took it somewhere else."
A seriously deluded pair of women there!
Cheers,
Alex.
boumtje
purrffecttbliss wrote:
> she watched as Earl Simmons, her future husband, robbed an old woman.
> "I knew he was bad," says Tashera. "But I'd never had any excitement
> in my life, so he was like my hero. I used to think about him all the
> time after that day."
one of the many reasons that this world is FUCKED
all the effort i put into being a decent and caring guy and it turns
out all i need to do to impress the ladies is rob some old woman
STRATEGY
I hear that molesting children is big with the ladies too.
STRATEGY
alexrinse
>
> all the effort i put into being a decent and caring guy and it turns
> out all i need to do to impress the ladies is rob some old woman
Or sell drugs!
Cos360°
didn't expect the women to be that unattractive actually. gosh!
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Chaos & Disorder
She sounded like she's got issues too, so that's not reallly
surprising.
Chaos & Disorder
Cos360° wrote:
> the article sad but it's pretty much what you'd expect though...well I
> didn't expect the women to be that unattractive actually. gosh!
I believe I'd be hitting something on the side too if that's what I got
to come home to.
alexrinse
The first one is sound, but the second one mings, but regardless,
childhood sweetheart or not, I honestly can't say I wouldn't be
fooling about, whatever she looked like in the groupy situation.....
Cheers,
Alex....
quest19...@webtv.net
really real, they should've said "no comment" when asked about the
comments in the woman's book. You're married to a celebrity, knowing
full well that they get "preferential treatment" wherever they are on
the planet, only to turn around and believe that they're going to be
faithful. Can they be faithful, of course----however....
Unfortunate, but true, us regular folks are doing dirt as well, so a
celebrity is far and away doing dirt on a higher level. If I were
famous, I wouldn't even consider marriage until after the party's over.
Women, even men married to female stars, should be in the realization
that there are different ground rules, ultra-acceptance, and all that
other stuff that comes when you're married to stars. Can you imagine how
Sheryl Swoopes' ex-husband felt to find out she was gay and running on
him? Hmm...