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ATL Flashback ~ “Tameka Foster Made Me Cry”
Usher got his own post so I guess it’s only fair that Tameka gets some shine today too. A friend of mine has a great blog that reveals her secrets to success and longevity in Atlanta’s music scene. She’s seen it all and has shared some of the most outrageous stories of her experiences coupled with what she’s learned from them. One of my favorites is a post she wrote about an experience she had working with Mrs. Usher:
That’s right…Tameka Foster, Glover, Raymond once made me cry on the set of a video for a short lived group called the ATL. We were already 3 hours behind and she was not allowing the group to get dressed because…hummm…her creative vision AS A WARDROBE STYLIST was being compromised! I believe that was the line she gave me! I was the second assistant director and my SOLE job for the day was to the get the Artists’ and the models to set, and of course they couldn’t get there… if they didn’t have their clothes on! I begged and pleaded with Tameka which seemed to only fuel her fire.
She insisted I go get the Director’s, the Fat Cats… IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SHOOT she wanted to go over the creative vision for the group and video once again!!!
That was in 2003 and boy I didn’t know the SECRET then. The SECRET in this entry is a bit complicated but let’s try to walk through it. You see there is a thing in life called the path of LEAST RESISTANCE, the more I pushed, the more she resisted. Have you ever used a screwdriver and actually the pressure ended up “stripping the hole”? However, if you had just used a more calculated slower force, the result would have been better. Well, people like Tameka are much the same. Now some negative folks may say she is a CONTROL FREAK; I would prefer to say that she is a person who “needs to feel in control”. You see people who need to feel in control are usually out of control in other areas and are “overcompensating” for their feelings somewhere else.
THE REAL SECRET HERE IS: let’s stop bitching about peoples habits and start learning how to deal with them so that we don’t CREATE NEGATIVE COPING MECHANISMS of our own! (Source)
Great stuff! Make sure you check out I Have The Secret for more crazy tales Straight from the “A”! I promise you…she couldn’t make this ish up!
Keepinitreal
May 1, 2009 @ 2:52 pmWell than this EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!
alexis
May 1, 2009 @ 3:31 pmIts TRUE TRUE TRUE people…they are over, and have been for a minute now. In Atlanta, the degrees of separation on getting juicy information, is very small. If you know either one of them….then you know its a wrap.
Antoni
May 2, 2009 @ 3:25 amwhy put this b.s story here on a whole now wasted page of your blog? If you are from the ‘A” then you should well know that this group was her then husband Ryan group. ATL was a group that they put together. I’m sure there is more to this than this PA is aware of, how stupid is this for a story. Get ova it. people hate senselessly!
Jane
May 2, 2009 @ 11:05 amWell word from a family member was that he didn’t want to marry her in the first place. He was in a room for two our with people like LA Reid who were telling him it wasn’t right to leave her at the altar.
The moral of this story is don’t push a man to marry you. And a grown woman getting pregnant to trap a man…please! Proof this is the truth, the original wedding was in LA NOT The Hamptons like it was reported in the press.
TWITTER09THEPHOENIX09
May 2, 2009 @ 10:07 pmUMM THIS STORY IS WELL FUNNY,UMM USHER WAS NEVER MARRIED TO
HER AND THE VERY MENTION OF SUCH A UGLY MONSTER AS MR.FOSTER
WITH MR . RAYIV IS JUST SUICIDAL DOWN RIGHT DEPRESSING.
JUST TELL THE TRUTH YOUR BORING EVERYONE AND LOSING MONEY
LIES AGAINST UMM IS BAD FOR BUISNESS DIDN’T YOU GET THE MEMO ITS WHAT I LIKKE THAT WORKS AAHHHHAHAHA
TWITTER09THEPHOENIX09
May 2, 2009 @ 10:13 pmHER (HIM LOOKK AT THAT FACE YIKES) WE HAVE HAD OUR WORDS ON TWITTER
SHE’S FEELING SAD ABOUT HER PHOTOSHOPPED CHILDREN HAHA NOT MY FAULT
SHE LIVES ON ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT AND NOT ON EARTH HAHAHA
I TOLD THAT HOUSE KEEPER WHERE TO STICK AND WHO HAHA (I’M PLAYEN WELL AHHH HA)
AHH AMUSING THOUGH REALLY WITH MRS.USHER RAYMOND IV. HAHA
RAYMOND IV WHO WANTS TO BE CALLED JUST RAYMOND HA LAME
TWITTER09THEPHOENIX09
May 2, 2009 @ 10:18 pmLORD LOOK AT THAT PICTURE GEEE WIIZ SPARE US ALL FTROM RE TASTING DINNER
HI BABES
REMEMBER WHEN USH WAS IN NY GAGGING IN THE STREET YESSS SAME EFFECT
COULD YOU IMAGINE BEING SLEEP AND WAKING UP NEXT TO THAT MONSTER
AND I SAW THE BEAST COMING FROM THE ABYSS
SHESONLY LIKE 65 DENTURES ANYONE OHH ITS SOO NASTY HAHA HII USHER HAHA
HIIII. I THINK I SENT A LETTER TO A FRIEND BORN AGGAIN HOOLAGIN ONLY TO BEGIN AGAIN “READY OR NOT HERE I COME”
AHHH YUVCK
tamerka not usher wife lol
May 3, 2009 @ 11:32 pmYEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE FINNLEY DUMPED HER AZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ AND HE`IS GETTING HIS CHILD TO THE LAST ONE IS NOT HIS SO WHO BABY IT IS?HER EX !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I READ IT AND ITS TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USHER YOU FINNLEY SEE THE LIGHT AND THAT SHE /MEN CAN SAY ANYTHING ABOUT YOU PUT EVERYBODY KNOW THGAT YOU ARE NOT *** AND IF SHE GOING TO WRIT A TEKLL ALL BOOK SUE HER AZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
1PHATASS
June 9, 2009 @ 4:37 pmOLD *** BIT** THATS WHAT YOU GET. I SEE SHE WAS QUICK TO AGREE TO HAVE HIS BABIES.
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