lmao wow drama thats so crazy.

DAYUMMM!

I read it but I’m still kinda lost. I never heard of Bitter Vibes before. But I DO know that backstabbing is NEVER a good thing. Just miserable folks who wants you to be miserable with them.

@3 thats a good way to put it -jus miserable folks who want you to be miserable with them

AMEN N AMEN! ive been a subscriber to vibe as long as i can remember and after this year was up i was dead set on not re-subscribing because the mag went straight to hell..im sorry for mimi, i feel for any unemployed heffa..but she (and whoever else was to blame for the fall of vibe for that matter) definately needed to GO…i would be too heartbroken if vibe ended like the source, so im glad they womp wompin hoes before its too late

i read bittervibes daily too.. plus i have close friends who work and have worked at vibe in the past.. lots of shady business.. time for a new team to rebuild.. peace out mimi

misery loves company!

The only thing that can save that magazine is if Diddy buys it. We all know he knows wat the streets want. Ayo when is Making the band 4 coming out, that series is raw.

That Lil Wayne cover was horrible, and so was Mary’s!

It’s nothing funny about black folks always backstabbing each other and calling each other out. Nothing funny at all………….

I let my vibe subscripton lapse lst year. The mag has gone down the tubes hopefully the replacements can bring it back to life. 20 Questions wasn’t even good anymore and the vibe confidential had 3 month old gossip!!!!!!!!!

Ha ha ha!!

Good! That’s what they get for continuing to produce stupid covers and write poor articles. Man, the writing sucks! I don’t even bother to buy it anymore.

Well all i can say is what goes around comes around.

I’ve been down with bitter vibes since the day she started!! They actually gave the blog a shout out in the NY newpaper when the Mary J cover scandal was all a buzz!! It wasn’t updated too frequently so I stopped going…thanks for making me take another look, now I have some catch up reading to do.

That’s Wild.

um…I’m late…WHAT happened on the Lil Wayne Cover??

VIBE HAS BEEN WACK SINCE AROUND 2000 2001. SPEAKING AS A FORMER INTERN AT THE PLACE….THE BUPPIE PEDESTALS ARE CRAZY HIGH OVER THERE.

what happened with the Lil Wayne cover?

ChrisAlexander said:
um…I’m late…WHAT happened on the Lil Wayne Cover??

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Instead of the 20 illest Villains, it says the 20 illest VILLIANS

Wasn’t it that Lil’ Wayne was wearing a belt that said “Bape” and some dumbasses actually belived it said “Rape” so they got all offended? I know that has nothing to do with the cover words but I know that happened with that cover. Other than that I thought it was a good picture. Mary’s well, we all know that wasn’t working.

But I will continue to read VIBE. I never buy the magazine when I can read it at my beauty shop (lol) but I haven’t noticed a difference in it.

GOOD LAWD THATS ALOTTA DRAMA!!!

I didn’t know it was like that at Vibe! Vibe was the shyt around the Biggie/Tupac era! They had major exclusives…now Vibe is more like some shyt right now…you can tell that alot of “hipsters” work at Vibe, you know the crowd that thinks they are too cool and love Black Eyed Peas (examples: DJ AM, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan…basically mofos that think they are cool but are actually quite lame!)…

I will be checking out this blog…thanks ANGEL.LA!

Also what did happen with Lil Wayne’s cover…besides the fact Lil Wayne’s ugg mug was on it!

Well I’m glad I ain’t take that internship LOL

The mag use to be super hot. I haven’t bought amy Vibe issues this year. They haven’t been that great and the covers really do suck.

The spelled “villains” wrong.

Check this link: http://www.concreteloop.c...m/images/march/weezy1.jpg

Wasn’t it that Lil’ Wayne was wearing a belt that said “Bape” and some dumbasses actually belived it said “Rape” so they got all offended?

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That has to be the dumbest thing I’ve heard all morning.

VIBE is a magazine about the culture and when the culture sucks the content is going to suck. and what are the other options? the source?? please. im all for VIBE and hopefully they will be making some changes for the better.

Mimi Valdes Continues to Work at ‘Vibe,’ to the Best of Our Knowledge…

OK, we should say from the git-go that Vibe’s PR rep told us in no uncertain terms that this rumor……

I LOVE DRAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sounds fun….i’m sad Mimi’s gettin gumped tho…i liked her

but yeah, Vibe’s trash…and they have horrible cover choices….and their interview questions are never original……neither are their articles, which are always a bunch of rehashed garbage they prolly read somewhere else

Is MiMi the editor that wrote that very unprofessional response to Mary J in Vibe?

kind

I agree w/ littlemamajtb

This ‘Vibe’ Too Vibealacious For Ya, Babe…

While Vibe puts on a public face that no, editor-in-chief Mimi Valdes (who’s history with the mag began in ‘93) and her staff are not on the way out, gossip insist otherwise. The source for the masthead shake up rumors……

@#20 & 24–it wasn’t that dumb–the way it was photographed it really looked like the word “rape,” and if you’d never heard of BAPE, you wouldn’t assume anyone would be wearing a belt buckle with a non-word.

Yeah they been fuckin up over @ Vibe as of late but i still love the Vibe Awards…that’s my favorite award show to go to…always good times.

They need to star cutting heads, I remember reading that Vibe article about Amerie and how UGLY and Stupid they made her and her people sound.

Apparently, Vibe was sold thus the rumors floating around….

Stephanie D. Smith

JUNE 30, 2006 -

After more than a year on the block, urban music and fashion monthly Vibe is said to have found a buyer.

Sources familiar with the deal say Keith Glen Media, the parent company of progressive fashion and culture monthly BlackBook, is expected to take over Vibe magazine, women’s quarterly Vibe Vixen and Vibe’s Internet, television and mobile offerings. Keith Glen Media is led by CEO Eric Gertler and president Ari Horowitz.

The deal is expected to close today.

A spokesperson for BlackBook Media had no comment, but official announcement is expected to be made Wednesday. A spokesperson for Vibe was not familiar with the deal.

According to sources, Vibe President Kenard Gibbs and editor in chief Mimi Valdez will likely leave the company. Additionally, layoffs, primarily on the editorial side, are also expected.

The strategy behind the acquisition is to “step up” the Vibe brand, according to a source familiar with the deal. The deal would marry Black Book’s fashion forward approach with Vibe’s urban music and culture content and provide significant investment to grow Vibe’s global and online properties.

While Vibe has successfully grown its brand across multiple media platforms, paid circulation fell 2.8 percent to 836,611 through the second half of 2005, missing its 850,000 rate base, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Newsstand sales grew 8.1 percent. Ad pages through July, pages fell 8.2 percent to 624, reports the Mediaweek Monitor.

Mimi looks like Mike Bibby in that pic (Sac. Kings)

We are our own worst enemy. Magazines were Ok a few years back, but with internet news and gossip being so up-to-the-minute a magazine is kinda ‘old news’.

@25-Good point. How can an article about Lil Wayne or Lil John or any of those other Lils be made interesting? Garbage in, garbage out.

I KNOW “MARY J BLIGE” IS SOMEWHERE “CRACKING UP” over this shit.

This is some FOUL stuff…SHADY as hell…going on down @ VIBE.

But I still think that MARY knew she had a BIG FOREHEAD & should have done that PHOTO SHOOT wearing her hair in her face rather than carrying it back…then maybe the MAJORITY of her PHOTOS would have been SATISFACTORY instead of a select FEW. She had no one to blame but herself for that one.

LOL.

dayum whats w/al the mags cutting heads..vibe was my last hope for a decent music mag

I’ve never read an issue of Vibe magazine. I guess I’m old fashioned. I’m still reading Essence and Black Enterprise. lol

I had to add that blog onto my Bloglines. That’s some hilarious shit.

If she started w/Vibe in ‘93, that explains a lot. Has she been editor that long as well? I stopped reading VIBE after ‘97. Once Pac died it was over - not that one occurrence effected the other - but I began to notice that articles supposedly targeted towards “Us” -black people- sounded very non-black- if that’s possible. They just didn’t seem to fit into the culture they professed to represent, and the tone and opinion of the articles didn’t relate to me. Every once in a while, I’d be so put off by an article, I’d actually look to see who wrote it - and the name would be some Asian oriented name.

I’m not saying you have to be Black to write to Black people about Black culture and music - but as a write, you definately have a RESPONSIBILITY to have a clear understanding of your audience’s culture, people and where they stand on their music. Not flouting your own half-socialized opinions of something you just got introduced to in high school and have now decided you are the authority on.

I stopped reasding VIBE at that point, I guess I missed the hey-day of 2000 2001 you all are speaking of, but if you look back ‘98 is definately where it began it’s demise. That was the beginning of the signs of the times for me - The prostitution of our culture and what eventually happened to hip-hop was loud and clear in VIBE early on.

@ #21 - Such Magnificence - you definately said it best

I STOP BUYING VIBE ALL IT IS A BUNCH OF ADVERTISING .

YAY! I’m really glad they are planning to get rid of Mimi Valdez because no matter how bad the music is in Hip-Hop/ R&B right now, she took a great urban magazine and turned it into a boring & commercial waste of $4. She’ll put anyone on the cover, whether they deserve one or not and these covers have been wack for years. She couldn’t do anything different than giving everybody a promo picture for the cover of the magazine? What happened to the art of the front covers? If you ask me, the worst ever Vibe Cover belongs to Ciara and Bow Wow, not Mary. I remember seeing that and began thinking to myself that she has officially lost her mind.

Hip-Hop culture certainly isn’t at it’s smartest or strongest points right now, but, that doesn’t mean that this magazine had to be so unappealing and generic. I see teenagers reading Vibe now because all these artists who were once only reading Right on! and Word Up can now get Vibe to see their favorite weak artists.
This can only be a change for the better!

Yeah some of the main articles are kind of weak and a bit predictable but it still showcases black entertainment and gives entertainers an oppurtunity to have thier voce heard and is a good way of keeping tabs on the pulse of black entertainment. There are some flaws but nothing that a talented editor with some vision can’t fix.

No he don’t got pink on lil WAYNE,do that come with a skirt and pink shoes makeup?

No he don’t got pink on lil WAYNE,do that come with a skirt and pink shoes and makeup?