Five zesty moguls at an infamous white party.
Russell Simmons Steve Stout Jay Z Diddy Andre Harrell ![]() |
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You’ve got the connection wrong. Both Scooter Braun and Corey Gamble have Atlanta and Jermaine Dupri in common. As any Atlanta insider knows, Dupri is one of the kingmakers in Atl. Both of them were *ahem* involved with Jermaine Dupri and he mentored them as a result. Dupri is how Braun got into party promoting and Dupri made the introductions that helped Braun become a marketing juggernaut. In turn, Braun’s whiteness meant he could enter circles Dupri could not (think Taylor Swift) and extend Dupri’s network that way. Both Gamble and Braun met through Dupri’s networks and Gamble ended up in the Kardashians’ orbit because of introductions Dupri made. Unlike Diddy, who cannibalizes careers, Dupri is savvy as hell about placing his mentees in high places to extend his quiet influence. |
Interestingly enough, Dupri leads us back to none other than Clive Davis. LA Reid, who is Davis’s longtime mentee (lover?) is in turn Dupri’s longtime mentor. Dupri and LA Reid briefly fell out over Dupri’s ouster from Def Jam records, but fell back in with each other soon after and are thick as thieves to this day. At some point, Dupri became part of Davis’s circle through LA Reid and met Janet Jackson when both Davis and LA Reid asked Dupri to produce one of her albums. |
There’s an all-male cabal of power brokers who have abused and trafficked men and women for a total of at least six decades (starting with Clive Davis’s track record), and have made coercive same-sex relationships a virtual requirement for men trying to break into the music industry…but the person you keep posting about wanting to see go down is J Lo? There’s something wrong with you. |
Ne-yo, Jermaine Dupri, Trey Songz, Bow Wow, and OBJ? |
Oh what a web they weave. And who are some of Dupri's most famous credits? Young boys like Usher, Kris Kross, and Bow Wow. |
If y'all are alleging all of these Black execs have to be gay to get into the industry. Are there also gay rumors about Jay Z and his Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Damon Dash? They had the same template as Diddy, with an allegedly hyper successful music label, clothing line (Rocawear), and booze partnerships. |
The founder of The Source magazine, a rap industry kingmaker in the 90s and 00s, was also busted as being a closeted gay man. I wonder who funded that magazine and made it the gatekeeper that it was? |
So. Do you hate all Puerto Ricans or just her? WTF is your problem? That she got away? |
Thank you. |
Wasn’t he Janet Jackson’s boyfriend and also married to another woman? Is it rude to suggest that many of these men aren’t gay or closeted or abusers? I have no inside info. |
The idea that there is a “cabal” of Black male music executives forcing all male stars into coercive sexual relationships is an absurd conspiracy theory. The issue at hand, Diddy’s sexual abuse of multiple women and men, is disturbing enough, and backed by solid evidence, after a long investigation. But it’s not enough, apparently, for some of you vultures, who have to invent whole other sets of horrors with zero evidence. Yikes. |