By Tonya Whitaker
NDG Staff Writer
Since I started writing the Gazette Gossip column in October, I have run across several posts on black celebrity gossip pages about the ongoing feud between the “Queen Bee” Lil Kim and the “Black Barbie” Nicki Minaj. I have tried with all my might to avoid talking about this foolishness. But, since one of my other favorite female rappers of the 90s, Foxy Brown, had a war of words last week with Tom Joyner, I said to myself, “Why not?” I saw videos of Lil Kim obviously intoxicated on club stages in New York and Minaj using her current rap popularity to take jabs at Kim. Just when you thought the exchange was over, think again. Unlike her first blatant knock at Kim in Roman’s Revenge, her latest poke at Kim is in the song, temporarily named Tragedy. According to Hip Hop Leak.net, the song was leaked on the Internet on Saturday, and the Kim/Minaj fight was trending on Twitter most of the weekend. Minaj says, … “You was hot when Shaq teamed up with Penny/ Man, you was Magic/ I mean look at you now, h-e, you’re just tragic/ You a tragedy, you a parody …” Can’t these women just get along? I laugh because Kim is no longer the popular rapper she was in the 90s, and she cannot stand that a younger chic is taking her persona to the bank. Word on the street is that Minaj is ready to call a truce. They don’t call Kim the “Queen Bee” for nothing.
Too much, too little, too late
ESPN analysis and former NBA player Jalen Rose got a little tipsy behind the wheel of a vehicle and was arrested in Michigan last month. When he told his employers about the three-week old-DUI arrest, he gets suspended. Network execs said the suspension, handed down Sunday, is for Rose, “to address his problems.” So much for honesty is the best policy. The story gets better. TMZ reported that Rose’s arrest happened while he was in Detroit, his hometown, for the opening of a charter school for underprivileged kids that bears his name. Talk about setting an example for those youngsters.
