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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Ne-Yo Explains His Exit From R. Kelly Tour
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One week into R&B superstar R. Kelly’s tour there’s already troubles, and if what Ne-Yo says is happening backstage is true, there could be more.
Atlanta’s R&B singer-songwriter abruptly left the “Double Up” tour this week - leaving fellow local talents Keyshia Cole and J Holiday on the bill - “and it ain’t because I did something wrong, I’ll tell you that much,” he told the nationally-syndicated Russ Parr Morning Show Wednesday. (Though it doesn’t air here, Hot-107.9’s “A Team Morning Show” ran the audio minutes later).
“The PC terms that I’m being told to use [are] that we couldn’t come to a fair contractual agreement,” Ne-Yo said. “Basically, the way it goes is this: My people are going in fighting with R. Kelly over stuff that anybody else would just give me. And it’s not like I’m asking for anything crazy. For example, the first show, Columbus, Ga. …This man took all seven dressing rooms and told me to get dressed on my bus.”
“Can’t nobody be in the hallway when he walks through - just little silly stuff like that…As an artist, I have the utmost respect for that man. You can’t take away from the fact that he’s a musical genius. But as a person, as a person, I can’t lie, I lost a little respect for him on this one.”
T.I. and Friends Top Charity Goal for Hosea
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tuesday morning Atlanta rapper-actor T.I.’s publicist issued a statement about his charitable efforts for Thanksgiving, including his hope to raise $150,000 among his “celebrity friends” for the Hosea Williams Feed The Hungry Thanksgiving Day Dinner Event.
Tuesday afternoon, he delivered.
Confined to his lakefront home, facing felony weapons charges, T.I. got on the phone with V-103’s Ryan Cameron and solicited money from fellow music industry types. Fellow rapper-actors Big Boi and Busta Rhymes, R&B singer Ne-Yo and music moguls Jermaine Dupri, Michael “Mr. Collipark” Crooms, Polow Da Don, Devyne Stephens and Kevin Liles answered his call - literally, on the air - and Cameron says they came up with a total of $167,000.
