T.I. Ballin’ Out of Control
Yesterday I spoke with a club owner in D.C. who was interested in buying ad space on my blog. During the course of the conversation, he told me that rapper T.I. made an appearance at his club recently.
Me being the curious type, I asked if it was true that T.I. was really getting upwards of $100,000 per club appearance.
His answer surprised me: T.I. now commands — and receives — $150,000 per appearance! The reason being that he’s going to the joint soon and he needs to make sure that his extended family is well taken of while he’s on the inside.
T.I.’s club appearance fee breaks down to $75,000 per hour! And we’re not even talking about him performing.
But are nightclubs raking in cash like that every night? Because I need to open up a club, but I wouldn’t be able to afford T.I.’s rates. The club owner wouldn’t say how much his take is per night, but he did acknowledge paying T.I.’s whopping fee.
I don’t think Jay Z gets that much scrilla just to show up and chill in a club’s VIP for two hours. He might ask but I doubt he would get it.
No doubt, T.I. is the hottest commodity in Hip Hop right now.
Celebrity Seed: Jolie-Pitt Twins
Earlier this week all the blogs were asking the question, “where are the Jolie-Pitt twins?”
It seems the twins hadn’t been seen publicy in 3 months and the blogs were alarmed.
So what does Angelina and Brad do? They bring out the twins, 6-month old Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon. Which just goes to show that vain celebrities like Brad and Angie do read the blogs.
Photos: JustJared.com
Put ‘Em On Blast: Chad “Cutty” Coleman
An irate loyal reader sent this email to me yesterday:
This is “Cutty” Chad Coleman from the HBO Show “The Wire” hanging out in Atlanta with some bust down. While his wife is in New York sick. This nigga gets on my last nerves… He is a total GHETTO a** Nigga who’s money done ran out. Hanging all up in the club, being in other people’s VIP trying to get a drink then doesn’t even offer to help pay the bill… FAKE dude needs to be put on blast. And that chick he with jumps from one mans arm to a next so whatever about her. While his wife is Sick in New York I’m glad he can party hard in Atlanta… Don’t worry ladies he will be free loading in a city near you.
Signing Out!
Fake Nigga Spottah
Now Chad, aka Cutty, claims to be such a good Christian, well good Christian men don’t take pictures hugged up in nightclubs with busty women who are not their wives.
It wasn’t that long ago that Cutty spoke about changing his ways and honoring his marriage vows in accordance with God’s will. (LINK)
Now all of this is a moot point if the woman in the photos is Cutty’s wife. But I don’t think she is. I could be wrong though — Lawd knows I often am.
Video: Biggie’s Children CJ and Tyanna Interact
This video of Notorious B.I.G.’s children Tyanna and CJ is so cute! You can tell they have a great relationship with each other.
Faith Evans also seems to have a good relationship with Tyanna. At one point she comes into the room and asks Tyanna, “aren’t you on punishment?” You can tell she’s a good mother. I take back everything bad I said about Faith.
One thing I noticed was how white the children sound. I know I’ll get ripped for that but so be it. You can pretend not to notice the speech difference in black kids that were raised in the suburbs versus the hood. But I’m not going to ignore it. Of course that’s not a bad thing — until these kids grow up and out of their environment where they have to interact with regular black folk.
The other part of this video I found interesting was Biggie’s children don’t know all the lyrics to his songs. You would think the children of the g.o.a.t. would know the words to every song in Biggie’s catalog.
Is This Ciara?
Thanks to loyal reader Tammie for sending this cover for Ciara’s new single “Never Ever” featuring Young Jeezy.
I guess CiCi said to hell with those rumors.
It’s hard to believe a woman would go to such great lengths for attention.
Bless her heart.
Celebs Out & About: Amar’e Stoudemire at Dreamz (1/24)
Thanks to Prince Williams over at ATLPics.net for these shots from Amar’e Stoudemire’s UNION Party at Dreamz ATL nightclub on Saturday night.
Photo by ATL PICS
These pretty ladies are sandrarose.com loyal readers. Two of them, MissJenee in the center, and Evita Camela on the right, are members. MissJenee won the tickets and backstage passes to T.I.’s Christmas concert in December, but she didn’t get to meet T.I. It’s all good though. T.I. made up for it by posing with our winner of the dinner for two at Amar’e's private party at Justin’s. I’m still waiting for that pic, Luvly1957!
Evita Camela had the ballers drooling at Amar’e's party. I wonder if they remember her from that Morning Glory post last year?
Photo by ATL PICS
Loyal sandrarose.com reader Sarah Chapman, left, was in the house looking radiant as ever. I know why, but I’m not allowed to say.
Photo by ATL PICS
The post wouldn’t be complete without some of that local Flava From Decatur.
Photo by ATL PICS
Put ‘Em On Blast: Straits Responds
Nashe Scott, who manages Ludacris’ Straits restaurant, responded to Kim Morgan‘s complaints in yesterday’s ‘Put ‘Em On Blast’ post. (Read the complaint here) Nashe now has Kim’s contact info so maybe they can work something out.
Thanks to Nashe for reaching out!
The person who planned the party wanted to create an affordable menu option for all guests. So she chose our standard “family style” menu which involves sharing each dish. The group was served the first and second courses with no incident. However, once the first main course dishes arrived and were eaten the guest began to complain because they wanted more. At that point a member of the party began to curse, yell and disrepect the servers. Our manager spoke with the person who planned the party and the father of the guest of honor. Following is an except from our January 23rd incident report:
We discounted the food and the guest of honor’s father requested to pay the bill. They acknowledged that there must have been a misunderstanding about the menu. We both agreed that when people communicate, anything can be worked out. It’s when people become out of control that nothing gets resolved. The sister of the guest of honor even stated that she planned to come back. Food and service have been the top priorities since the day we opened the doors. We have hosted events for most of Atlanta’s A-list. The Real Atlanta Housewives, Monica, Eric Benet, Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas of TLC, Russell Simmons, Bob Johnson, and the list goes on…if your wondering the reason why, it’s because at Straits we strive for each guest to have an amazing dining experience.
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