How Amerie’s career was hijacked by Beyonce and J-Lo

Booker T Garvey

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Not one person said Ashanti wasn't hot when she came out that's little shyt you add in the convo for

stopped reading here. somebody mentioned that ashanti was hotter than beyonce between 2002 - 2004, I added my .02.

why isn't this person perma banned yet?

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Most of them are under 25 so they would've been younger than 10 years old in the early 2000s.

If we transported back in time to 2002, Ashanti was the girl on Murder Inc. dropped 3 big urban singles (Happy, Baby, Foolish) and was on all of Ja Rule's and J-Lo's singles that year/summer. J-Lo had a BIG run in 2001 and 2002 with J.Lo/This Is Me Then albums. Alicia Keys had a big debut with Fallin, A Woman's Worth and Girlfriend. She was the new girl on the block. Amerie made a banging summer joint. Aaliyah had just passed last summer and everyone was still mourning her and playing her songs everywhere. And, Beyonce had just finished up the Goldmember movie, dropped Work It Out which was her first real solo single and was working on her debut album. Destiny's Child had dropped Survivor the year before but, this idea that Beyonce was the Queen back then is laughable :heh:

You still had Mary J. Blige (the Breakthrough album was BIG in 2006), Mariah Carey (had a major major year in 2005), Brandy (Full Moon was a good album in 2002) and Monica (So Gone was a big album in 2003) hanging around too. Bey Hive stay twisting facts up and distorting reality :heh:

Wasn't nothin else to read after this post. shyt was dead on IMO. I was there...:yeshrug:
 

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If y’all think who gets radio play is based solely on talent you are sadly mistaken.

Industry is just as controlled and fabricated as anything else in terms of How successful one can get. Plus many artists stopped the success of artists who were better than them or had similar sounds to them. Jay Z did if, Beyoncé did it, they all did it.
 

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If y’all think who gets radio play is based solely on talent you are sadly mistaken.

Industry is just as controlled and fabricated as anything else in terms of How successful one can get. Plus many artists stopped the success of artists who were better than them or had similar sounds to them. Jay Z did if, Beyoncé did it, they all did it.

the fact that none of this is really common knowledge is why it thrives the way it does as a business model

and even the people who know that it goes on would be shocked to learn about the little details like the ones revealed here

I do disagree that this is as widespread as you make it out to be, you really think stevie wonder had to block anyone? :comeon:
 

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After the why don't we fall in love video I fell in love with her. She was the prototype for every woman I wanted or wifed.
 
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