2007 was definitely a year for WTF (WHAT THE F*CK) moments. From Imus to Polow Da Don, many celebs had us scratching our heads and yelling out WTF at our computer screens. This year had so many crazy moments to pick from that I had trouble compiling my list, but here it goes – Concrete Loop’s Top WTF Moments of ’07!
RAZ B & CHRIS STOKES SCANDAL
I already started compiling my list before the Raz B and Chris Stokes controversy hit the net on Christmas Eve, but it’s safe to say this whole thing takes the cake as the top WTF moment of 2007. With only a few days left in ’07, these allegations and cries of molestation took the internet by storm (and are continuing to do so).
This whole situation is very very serious and I only hope the full truth comes to light soon because this isn’t anything to joke around with. For more info on this controversy, check out the following links: link 1 / link 2 / link 3.
DON IMUS – “NAPPY HEADED HOES“
Next up, the whole Don Imus controversy. Back in April of ’07, the popular radio show host was giving his commentary on a recent college basketball game and got a little too comfortable and spoke the now infamous words. Yep, he had the nerve to call the whole Rutger’s Womens Basketball team “Nappy Headed Hoes” (among other things). His comment stirred up so much debate on the internet and beyond that he was forced out of his job at CBS.
He eventually went on to apologize to the team and only 6 months after the whole incident went down he got a new gig with another radio station. Go Figure! Let’s just hope he learned his lesson, I’ll guess we’ll see in ’08.
RAY J & KIM K.’S SEX TAPE
Even though I hate to admit it, Ray J and Kim Kardashian’s sex tape was actually a hot topic on CL earlier this year. Even though the video was lackluster at best, this didn’t stop Ray & Kim from getting their grind on. Kim has her own reality show now and Ray J is still trying to release mixtapes.
The duo has since broken up and moved on to new relationships (Kim is with Reggie Bush and Ray J has been linked to everyone from Whitney Houston to Lil Kim). Not that bad for sucking and … aww let me stop.
AKON & HIS INCIDENTS
Check out Akon and the infamous club romp session that lost him major endorsement and shame worldwide. The singer/producer was caught on camera bumping and grinding with a 14 year old (unbeknownst to him) in a Trinidad club back in April and those photos were leaked all over the internet. Come to find out the girl lied about her age to get into the club and get this she was actually a preacher’s daughter. WTF!
This wasn’t Akon’s only incident this year. He is currently being sued for throwing a 14 year old off the stage at a concert and injuring a fan. What is up with this dude and teenagers? Looks like he is going to be paying out some money in ’08.
DIDDY’S SON & THE LAP DANCE
Speaking of lap dance’s who could forget that crazy photo of Diddy’s 12 year-old son, Justin Combs, getting a lap dance from a grown-ass woman!? The above photo was heavily talked about and Justin’s mother, celebrity stylist Misa Hylton, made sure to let the world know that she didn’t take this situation lightly. Here is what she said back in February:
“It’s so crazy. These teens think that it’s nothing, like it’s dancing,” Hylton told Miss Info. “But this is big problem for Justin. Real big. I don’t play that at all.” [SOURCE]
That woman in the photo should have been slapped senseless for dancing on a 12 year-old. She know that was wrong!
BEAUTY Q.T. said
Bill said:
As a Black Man, who is married to Black woman, and who has Black daughters, Black sisters and a Black mother, I am offended anytime a person makes a off colored remark about our beautiful Black woman.
DAMN, we need to clone you! We need more black men to contain your thought patterns, and to support the black race in general. Your wife is a lucky woman.
Bill Said:
Thank you and God Bless you.
Happy New Year !
This was a “WHAT THE FUCK” year, period.
God Bless you and Happy New Year Bill!
blackisbeautiful said:
@ Bill
oh yes of course! we should be outraged by such an outrageous racial remark..BUT.did it change his perceptions of black women?
Bill Said:
Probably not, but the suspension of his radio show gave him time to think about his actions and how he should handle communicating those thoughts.
Anyone familiar with Don Imus’s Radio show know that these are feeling that he has been suppressing for a long time.
But because he chose to communicate those feeling across a nationally syndicated radio show airwaves, he HAD to be rebuked.
I really don’t care if Don Imus changes his mind about his feeling towards black woman
What I do care about is OUR community’s response to adverse situations.
As a Black Man, I was morally offended
As a Black Man, I should take a stand to protect OUR Black Woman
@ Bill
Amen!!!!..I concur 100%
Dont forget about Isaiah Thomas and the Madison Square Garden fiasco!
Christ Stokes “gutta butt trollop ass” tops the list for sure!
The Imus situation was sad but it really didnt change anything in our community. We need to wipe the crust out our eyes first before point out someone else’s.
Eddie and Diddy are fools. low down dirty dogs! Funny how they all have daughters.
Kim’s nasty ass is pathetic too!
HMMPH this is the 7th WTF year in a row cuz ever since 2000 i was sayin WTF far too often we have 11 months to go.hold on tight!
@ 51 U r so right! U r a very intellectual brother! Love that!!
I feel like Raz B and his brother are lying. They sound like two broke coons that are trying to extort some type of money or fame from telling lies about Chris Stokes. I mean, why else video tape the conversations & place them on youtube?? Especially being family, you don’t tape conversations about serious topics. You talk about that in private, and why come out now??..oh b/c they’re officially broke, and hungry for some type of spot light.. It sounds like Rickey Romance or whatever his name is, was heated b/c his Mama didn’t get into Chris’ party. Chris seems like he knows they are triflin, so he’s really not messin w/ them on that level and they are jealous. I looked at Raz B’s myspace yesterday.. and under one of his pics, it says and I quote “Everything that comes out of my mouth is controversial, and that’s how I like it.”.. So therefore, I think he’s LYING.. He prob felt bad that’s why he went back on record saying he lied. He seems very gullable, and his brother probaby told him about all the money they could get if they claim X,Y and Z. Damn shame… Oh and also on his myspace, he was on a motorcycle, and it said “I USED to have one of these”.. LMAO! Broke @$$ jigg, I swear!
WTF for the year and the number 1 spot goes to………….CHRIS ‘low down dirty’ STOKES!!
They need to throw him in jail, chop off his manhood and feed it to him over a series of days. How are u gonna take advantage of boys man?? that is just wrong. He needs to be punished asap.
And dont nobody need to be surprised @ diddy. he probably got hundreds more kids tucked away, waiting to expose him in 2008!!!
Happy Holidays everyone!!
@58 All of those boy band groups should of moved when they saw Chris Stokes cumin but they all chose to stay and talk about it on a later day. I see homo fags coming I move, they see homo fags coming and they stayed. But seriously ya’ll, where were the parents when they were taking picutres in the bed with nothing but their briefs on. I’ll be dammend if my son can have pictures out with him in bed with two other boys with thier briefs on.
To Raz-B, Chris, and his brother-pass, eww, and WTF to all dem for pullin some nastey shit like dat. Why would u do that, now i’m Still callin all of em gay for liein about that.
Fuck u to Dom Imus corpse lookin ass.
Eww, pass, and who-gives-a-damn to Kim and RAy J.
Akon get right and shame on the 14 year old (fast ass) girl. moving on
Shame on the grown (nasty) ass woman fo givin a lap dance to Diddy’s son and Shame on the adults who let it happen.
Remy Ma, Vick, Eddie (and Melody, fo creepin, pregnacy n then getting married), all needs get yo to get yo biz straighened out.
umm Palow Da Don, don’t really care, what eva floats yo boat. (u ain’t all dat anyway)
Isaiah, watch ya mouth and it wouldn’ve happened. But it Was takin over board unnessecarly.
Diddy u need to calm yo semen down.
Excerpts from an interview done with Ricky Romance
http://thenewurban.blogspot.com/
RICKY ROMANCE: Marques Houston and Chris Stokes have been lovers for years. Yeah, Chris is married, and it’s a real marriage as far as them bein down for each other, but Marques will always be there. Why do you think all through the B2K period he was keepin Marques Houston’s name alive when he was over…They had to shout out IMX, who gave a fuck about IMX??? It’s b/c Chris was, you know, with Marques…. That’s why he kept poppin up.
TNU: Have you talked to Raz B since the scandal broke on the internet?
RICKY ROMANCE: I just got off the phone with DeMario (Raz B), and the apology tape is not real! Chris had people force Raz to read a script and coerced him into taking money. I talked to DeMario and the money will be returned. We want this done right. We’re putting this message out there for all of the innocent kids who get abused and are then forced to be silent.
TNU: Rumors have swirled that Raz B was forced by gang members to take back his statements against Chris Stokes. Is this true?
RICKY ROMANCE: I won’t say names of who it was who came at Raz to take that shit back, but I’ll tell you that it was some street niggaz. That’s all Ican say.
TNU: Since you released your molestation allegations against Chris Stokes, has there been backlash?
RICKY ROMANCE: Listen, yes. I’m being followed. Niggaz are threatening my life, but I don’t care. I stand by what I said because it’s the truth. Maybe I’m the only one brave enough to talk, but this has gone on for too long. I just want Chris’s sick child molesting pedophile ass to go to jail. Period.
TNU: How is Stokes threatening you?
RICKY ROMANCE: Right now he’s trying to intimidate us. Chris Stokes is very connected. His best friend is the Los Angeles Chief of Police.
TNU: How did the alleged molestation start?
RICKY ROMANCE: All of this is my fault. Chris tried this shit with me and I let it happen to my brother. Chris came into our lives at a vulnerable time. Our mother was on drugs and having problems in her marriage. He was our father figure. The sad thing is, I love Chris. That’s my family. He took DeMario in and was supposed to show him a better life. That better life was just financial. DeMario never finished school, hardly saw a dime and was molested from the time he was little until he stopped it.
TNU: Were you and Raz B the only boys who worked with Chris that got molested?
RICKY ROMANCE: Chris told all of us “participate in those fuckin gay acts, and you’ll always be taken care of.”
TNU: Chris is claiming that the reason you and Raz are speaking out is because he cut you off financially. Is this true?
RICKY ROMANCE: Chris is trying to dig up dirt on me. Yeah, I have a past, made some mistakes but that was the past. I do incredible things in the community, I’m a business man. I care about young people, unlike Chris whose life is about manipulating and exploiting young people. Chris Stokes has not supported me, my brother or my mother financially since B2K ended. That shit is just false. He bailed DeMario out recently when he had legal issues, but that was it. He made that shit up.
TNU: Is speaking out on the issue of molestation in the entertainment industry hard?
RICKY ROMANCE: I’m a man. The shit that happened to us as kids were dead wrong. And it wasn’t just us.
#70, did you even watch the 3 videos? If Raz-B was lying in the first 2 he missed his true calling in acting, because that shit seemed genuine. And everything he said adds up — the “we’re all related” lies, the sudden breakup at the height of B2K’s popularity, all the whispers there have been in the industry throughout the years about Chris Stokes being a control freak pedophile.
The third vid where he’s being coerced on the other hand, is fakey fake fake. He’s averting his eyes, you can hear someone telling him what to say, it’s obvious that shit is not coming from him.
Anyone who think someone would claim to be raped just because, just to have a laugh or whatever is being ignorant and clearly knows shit about sexual abuse victims. Men rarely report sexual abuse because people are so judgemental about it, quick to be all, “y’all must’ve liked it”, “you must be gay then”. That’s why people like Chris Stokes get away with their crimes so often — the victims feel shamed not only by their abuser, but like they would be shamed by the public too.
I don’t believe any man would go and say he was repeatedly sexually abused THIS PUBLICLY if it weren’t true. Raz-B and Ricky have the incentive to speak out despite knowing they’d get teared down by ignorant folks because they’ve been thru years of trauma and finally got to the place where they want repercussions for that pervert! Good for them. If they just wanted money, they wouldn’t choose a “story” that makes stupid people pick on them (the victims) and call them gay and other stupid shit. No man would put himself thru that kind of scrutiny unless it were true.
We’re talking about someone who as an 11 year old kid was basically sold by his disgusting parents to a pedophile. He’s been getting brainwashed by this Stokes freak and his cohorts for half his life! So I’m proud of him that he’s got the inner strength to speak the truth anyway, and I don’t believe that sketchy ass third video at all. It just makes Chris Stokes look MORE guilty, like he’s got shit to hide and wants to bury all this.
preach Ana preach!!!!!!
DAMN SHAME!!!! WE GOT TO DO BETTER BLACK PEOPLE
Wow, thanks for that Bill. I have a son, and it scares me that people are that sick. Thats why you have to instill in your kids at a young age, never be afraid to talk to your parents about anyone inappropriately touching you.
I’m glad he’s being the voice for everyone else whos scared to speak up.
your welcome grlnva.
Happy New Year & God Bless you, my sister.
likewise.
what about isiah thomas and the sexual harrassment thing?
@78, SO TRUE! MY LIL GIRL TOLD ME YESTERDAY THAT A LIL BOY AT HER DAYCARE B GRABBIN HER, BUT I KNOW SOMETIMES KIDS CAN B KIDS, BUT STILL. I BEEN AT WORK ALL DAY THINKIN ABOUT WHAT I MO TELL THEM PPL. LAWD, I HOPE I DONT HAVE 2 LOSE MY RELIGION TODAY!!
@70… Chris Stokes get your trifflin ass off this blog.
This year was crazy but Raz B story is the most interesting and it will play out next year. I am sure it is true.
@82, don’t lose your religion, please, you know they already expect us to act ignorant. The teacher needs to get involved, and then she needs to talk to little boy’s parents. Never know what these kids are learning at home, or who is touching them in an inappropriate way. They get it from somewhere. But I think you gonna have it easy, cause little girls are outspoken. They’ll be quick to say, “you can’t touch me there, imma tell my momma!”
U MISSED USHER AND HIS MAN….
*TAKES DEEP BREATH*, OK @85! I GUESS IM ALREADY ON EDGE WIT THIS WHOLE CHRIS FIASCO & THEN 4 MY BABY 2 JUST UP & COME TELL ME SOMETHIN LIKE THAT CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD. IM OFF NOW & TAKIN DA LONG WAY 2DAY B/C IM A LIL HEATED & NEED 2 CALM DOWN, BUT THANKS!
I have been out of the loop since about the week before Christmas I didn’t hear about the Raz B drama but I can believe it I read at BET he is recanting those allegations. Somebody doing damage control !
@ 85
That’s so true!..Mom’s are very open of telling their daughters..to tell if someone touches their “private area”..but when it comes to boys they are afraid to tell and that saddens me..we have to allow our boys to be open and more accepting of being outspoken on being molested..it’s becoming more in common now..Raz B just came out and if he hadn’t came out along time ago, Chris Stokes wouldn’t be walking around molesting young boys
I think LA is a corrupt and depressing town. Has nebody noticed that all the drama that has happened this year has come straight out of hollywood or la. i wouldnt move to LA if someone paid me to. this raz b and chris stokes situation is sad and unbelievable. i was a big fan of immature back in the day ever since house party 3 and when i was in my early teens i never realized how immature was portraying themselves and acting. they were really overally sexual in there vidoes and some over there songs. i remember that pix of immature from back in 7th grade when they were all in the bed with there boxers on, all 3 of them and back then i was too young to realize the gayness of that pix. i had the biggest crush on batman so i seen nothing wrong with it. but now seeing that same old pix again made me think like “damn these dudes was like 14 yrs old and laying in the bed together with no clothes on only “tight boxers”? and trying to appeal to young teen girls? i always had a suspcision about chris stokes then, but nothing about the boys or even batman aka marques houston. i have been blogging since i found out about this and wanting to know the updates on ol boy. i feel bad for raz b. i believe him to the fullest extent and he has nothing to lose but chris has everything to lose money, marriage, reputation everything. money and women come and go but if u lose respect from people or ur reputation is soiled u r truelly f*cked! chris mind as well go try to find some other way of makin an income cuz this situation is not good for him of his finances. im mean really how rich can this dude really be now? b2k fell off like 3 years ago, omarion isnt as pop as he used to be and marques had like 2 big “hits” not albums in the last 3 years, and those wack ass straight to video bet movies arent box office smashes. so really he’s not like he’s jay z or 50 cent. irv gotti probably got more money than chris does. i hope this situation brings to light that “black people” loves to point blame on someone else for our obvious faults (i.e. r kelly and mike jackson) i truelly belive that mike did touch those kids but we as “black people” dont want to fully admit it. chris stokes was an adult when this was happening and raz b was a minor and that is rape,molsetation and even insest. if i was raz b even after all of the rapes and molsetation 1st off i would have got a team or just one good ass high profile lawyer. 2nd i would have formally have had the police or d.a to get up a summons for charges and 3rd i would have done the tapes or done interviews with the big wigs like oprah and larry king for this story to go national or even international so that all chesters and kids know that eventually any immoral acts they’ve done will come to light and there will be vindication. even as an adult i liked b2k cuz my lil nieces was digging them at that time and bump.bump,bump was my personal favorite but he seems to make them be like a certain style (gay). oiled chests, braids and rihanna bobs,skinny jeans all that crazyness. does nebody remember when batman had a rihanna bob back in 94 that was silky and flowing like a pantene commercial? all those old memories of how they used to be and act are falling right in place now. damn yo. no 15 yr old boy wants to rock a rihanna bob without someone (chris) pushing for it. batman had the bob, ldb had the curly kit and the other one had the da brat braids w/ the patch. wow. he’s been grooming them the way he wanted to for years and even with b2k. i hope they get his fat bloated booty hole stinking , flat mcdonalds hamburger face having,s curl dripping, side burns and mustache drawed on with a eye brow pencil drawining, bikini and scrotum ass waxing, man pedi and manicure ass in prison where some real thugs that would love to take that sweet plump ass would love to “bump,bump,bump” with all the pun intended in him all nite long just like he did them boys. I hope he gets what we has coming to him sucka. well he might not mind that at all instead of him being a sucka (feminine) maybe it should be suckem (masculine) just like in spanish class in high school? lol
*clears throat* Great list but ummmm excuse me, why isn’t the Jena 6 on here? WTF?
thanx Bill
that was very interesting!!!!
There is always some truth to this celebrity grit.
What young man would want to air something like this on national TV if it weren’t true? They would more so want to hide it due them having a complex about being viewed as a homosexual.
A HOT BLODDY OLE MESS THIS YEAR HAS BEEN. THAT IS ALL
This Chris Stokes, Remy Ma Shooting and Imus DID IT for me.. SMH
It’s been a crazy year
HaHa someone actually thinks Ray j pimped Kim K….
Dumbass she put that shit out to build her non celebrity FAKE every body part ASS!
That whole Raz-B thing is a hot mess. I mean surely that situation is nothing to be playing arould with. Molestation is a serious ,serious charge. I only know because I intern with a lawyer who deals with that stuff and it’s very serious. I think that situation personally should be delt in private with lawyers present. As I said before they need to stop being kids about this i.e. making public statements about one another,talking about each other behind each others back and be gorwn men about this. Step to each other like grown men. Their is obviously some deeper stuff that needs to be address than this molestation accusation. They need to deal with that and squash it. Seriously, this is getting old and lifes too short to be going through this drama.
Also that whole Ray J and Kim K thing is nasty. That should be on the year’s most nastiest list because that was nasty.
The New Urban interviewed Ricky Romance and got a few things out of him regarding their war with Chris Stokes. Check it out.
TNU: Have you talked to Raz B since the scandal broke on the internet?
RICKY ROMANCE: I just got off the phone with DeMario (Raz B), and the apology tape is not real! Chris had people force Raz to read a script and coerced him into taking money. I talked to DeMario and the money will be returned. We want this done right. We’re putting this message out there for all of the innocent kids who get abused and are then forced to be silent.
TNU: Rumors have swirled that Raz B was forced by gang members to take back his statements against Chris Stokes. Is this true?
RICKY ROMANCE: I won’t say names of who it was who came at Raz to take that [EXPLETIVE] back, but I’ll tell you that it was some street n****s. That’s all I can say.
TNU: Since you released your molestation allegations against Chris Stokes, has there been backlash?
RICKY ROMANCE: Listen, yes. I’m being followed. N***as are threatening my life, but I don’t care. I stand by what I said because it’s the truth. Maybe I’m the only one brave enough to talk, but this has gone on for too long. I just want Chris’s sick child molesting pedophile ass to go to jail. Period.
TNU: How is Stokes threatening you?
RICKY ROMANCE: Right now he’s trying to intimidate us. Chris Stokes is very connected. His best friend is the Los Angeles Chief of Police.
TNU: How did the alleged molestation start?
RICKY ROMANCE: All of this is my fault. Chris tried this [EXPLETIVE] with me and I let it happen to my brother. Chris came into our lives at a vulnerable time. Our mother was on drugs and having problems in her marriage. He was our father figure. The sad thing is, I love Chris. That’s my family. He took DeMario in and was supposed to show him a better life. That better life was just financial. DeMario never finished school, hardly saw a dime and was molested from the time he was little until he stopped it.
TNU: Were you and Raz B the only boys who worked with Chris that got molested?
RICKY ROMANCE: Chris told all of us “participate in those f***in gay acts, and you’ll always be taken care of.”
TNU: Chris is claiming that the reason you and Raz are speaking out is because he cut you off financially. Is this true?
RICKY ROMANCE: Chris is trying to dig up dirt on me. Yeah, I have a past, made some mistakes but that was the past. I do incredible things in the community, I’m a business man. I care about young people, unlike Chris whose life is about manipulating and exploiting young people. Chris Stokes has not supported me, my brother or my mother financially since B2K ended. That [EXPLETIVE] is just false. He bailed DeMario out recently when he had legal issues, but that was it. He made that [EXPLETIVE] up.
TNU: Is speaking out on the issue of molestation in the entertainment industry hard?
RICKY ROMANCE: I’m a man. The s**t that happened to us as kids were dead wrong. And it wasn’t just us.
Anyone who believes Raz and Ricky like I do please dont hesitate to let the officials know that we want an investigation!! Something must be done and here’s the info on how to get it crackin!! Celebrities get way too often and too easy and this time it’s not gonna happen! Imagine if it were your child…
EVERYONE CALL NOW!
District Attorney’s Office
County of Los Angeles
210 West Temple Street, Suite 18000
Los Angeles, CA 90012-3210
Telephone (213) 974-3512
Fax (213) 974-1484
TTY (800) 457-7778
I don’t know if anybody has mentioned this yet but…
What about Kanye West’s mom’s death and the horrible (and suspect) way that she died?!
My understanding is that they are still investigating the death.
Yeah this year was really crazy!! But what was the most crazy to me was the news that popped off a week ago. The mess with Chris “Gutta Butt Trollop” Stokes is just too crazy for words. Michael Vick and a ton of other black athletes were just disappointing all around.
All these stories were in my top of the list for 2007 and you guys forgot about Britney Spearses mess
All these moments either shocked or disgusted me.
BTW, how come CL never posted those weird ass Ottoman humping videos, which were all over the Internet earlier this year?!
Don Imus and that whole ordeal with Jena 6 would have to be the most WTF moments in my opinion. This shows us why black people need to stick together. We’ve got to do better!
Akon’s mishap also shows black men to pay attention to what their doing. Senseless, out-of-control fun needs to come to a halt when you’re in the limelight.
SOME TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET BUSINESS IS GOIN DOWN!!!
Seems her profile was found at the Interracial singles club interracialloves.com a couple of days ago. She has posted several nice ablums and personal blogs
there. She is becoming hotter and hotter there.
I don’t think chris did this ,I mean raz-b and his brother are smoking and WE all know that drugs give you emotional problems. Look at the facts, Raz-b was all over youtube saying all this stuff and then turned around and apologized for the accusations? It was just a money scandal that made him look foolished.If a person did this to you, don’t go on youtube. How he presented this it was a scandal. My mother always taught me to stand up for what i believe in, so taking it all back makes you look like a liar. By the way back in the day i always said he looked a little
queerish, no offense, just saying. And i wonder what his family is saying, you just don’t want to say anything i know their are people who have experienced this sort of thing in their families by relatives. It’s not the easiest to believe, but sometimes you gotta ask yourselves why r these people saying these things.I don’t know???
but something doesn’t add up. Raz-b wouldn’t say this without a reason even tho I’m a female. A man ain’t gonna come out like that. Even though chris is raz-b’s cousin
doesn’t mean anything . I’m still confused, Why take it all back? I guess it ain’t for us to know but GOD, Chris RazB,his brother and who else was envolved with these encounters!!! But does anyone else have any reasons. Please someone fill me in so I can fully understand!!!!!