Rumors,feuds,and scandals from Old Black Hollywood

[Ol’Otis]

According to Rick James: I hit rock bottom, the Mary Jane Girls were gone. Process and the Doo Rags split up. Val Young was now with Bobby Brown and most of the Stone City Band had left. I couldn't support them any longer because I was too busy getting high.

My world was crumbling right in front of me and I didn't care.

All my time was spent getting high and waiting on death.

Sometimes I would meet a chick and we'd get high for hours. Soon as she said she was married, something inside me said "NO!" The night I met Vanity at the awards, I also met Robert DeNiro's wife Barbara. She came on so strong that I was freaking. As soon as I found out she was Bobby's wife, I left her alone, and that's the truth.

I love gay people, especially the ones who don't thrown their shyt in your face. I have found some men handsome and even attractive-on a man level-that's honesty. But never have I wanted a man to suck my d**k or me to suck his.

When my contract was up with Motown, I flew to New York to meet with Clive Davis at Arista. I've always had a lot of respect for Clive, even though he refused the Mary Jane Girls when I was shopping them before Motown snapped them up. Clive, upon hearing their tape, sent me a letter telling me he didn't think the Mary Jane Girls were going to hit. He later apologized.

Back home, every hour of the day or night, the house was filled with people indulging in orgies, kinky ass sex, bestiality, all kinds of shyt. Decadence and perversion ruled and the people who tired of it were easily replaced. I thrived on breaking in women, conquering and destroying, turning them on to freebase. The atmosphere was wild and evil.

Things had gotten so bad that I was studying the occult and I started claiming the devil.

In the midst of all this insanity and drug use, a woman named Cathy Townsend, daughter of Ed Townsend who co-wrote "Let's Get It On & Got To Give It Up," with Marvin Gaye. She started hanging around. Unfounded rumors suggest that her mother is white singer Connie Francis.

Anyway, I had met Cathy before and she was a born thief, and a hoe, which is how she paid for her drugs, still, I liked her. She was very funny and always kept me laughing. One day Cathy brought a girl, Courtney, to the house as a gift for me. She was dressed like a hoe. The first fifteen minutes she was there we were on the floor having sex. Later, I found out she loved smoking coke and she loved women.

When she left after spending a month with me, she went back to her pimp at a motel where they were staying. The pimp was a drug dealer and a drug addict, and he was furious at her for being at my house and not coming back with no money. This pimp had a way of punishing his women. He burned them with a pipe.

My girlfriend ended up taking Courtney to the hospital, the police came after me because when my girlfriend left the hospital, the staff took down my license plate number.

It was a big conspiracy.

 

[GoFlipAPack]

@Paradise Al Green had a habit of putting his hands on women


In 1974, singer Al Green was charged in a $100,000 civil suit for allegedly beating Linda Wills in his Memphis office. According to Wills, the violence started after she asked Green, why she had been fired from her job as a business manager at Al Green Music Publishing. Both parties also had a heated dispute about back pay-and without warning, Green allegedly started beating her.

Wills was allegedly taken to a hospital by Green's sister where she was treated for contusions, bruises and bleeding from the head.

This case was eventually settled out of court.

In 1979, Al Green was cleared of assault and battery on another woman (Lovie Smith).

*It's been rumored for years that Al Green and Patti LaBelle got into a heated altercation (backstage) when they were appearing in a play. Allegedly, the argument ensued when it was revealed that Patti (was taking time off) from the play to attend her sister's funeral.

All Green out doing the lords words work laying the hand of gawd on these bytches

 

[Ol’Otis]

In 1990, while Bobby Brown was on tour in Australia, his father, Herbert James Brown, then 60, was charged with raping a 16-year-old girl and assaulting another in Brisbane, Australia.

He was released after Bobby posted a $40,000 bond in Brisbane, where the alleged attack was reported.

He was along for his son's tour when he allegedly invited two teenaged girls to his hotel room for drinks.

Brown, a disabled war veteran and father of nine, was accused of attacking one teenager when she sought to leave and then allegedly raped her friend.

Brown was facing life in prison.

*This story disappeared from the media, the outcome of this case is unknown. I suspect the charges were dropped after an financial agreement. At the time, Bobby Brown was one of the biggest stars in the world.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

According to Rick James: I hit rock bottom, the Mary Jane Girls were gone. Process and the Doo Rags split up. Val Young was now with Bobby Brown and most of the Stone City Band had left. I couldn't support them any longer because I was too busy getting high.

My world was crumbling right in front of me and I didn't care.

All my time was spent getting high and waiting on death.

Sometimes I would meet a chick and we'd get high for hours. Soon as she said she was married, something inside me said "NO!" The night I met Vanity at the awards, I also met Robert DeNiro's wife Barbara. She came on so strong that I was freaking. As soon as I found out she was Bobby's wife, I left her alone, and that's the truth.

I love gay people, especially the ones who don't thrown their shyt in your face. I have found some men handsome and even attractive-on a man level-that's honesty. But never have I wanted a man to suck my d**k or me to suck his.

When my contract was up with Motown, I flew to New York to meet with Clive Davis at Arista. I've always had a lot of respect for Clive, even though he refused the Mary Jane Girls when I was shopping them before Motown snapped them up. Clive, upon hearing their tape, sent me a letter telling me he didn't think the Mary Jane Girls were going to hit. He later apologized.

Back home, every hour of the day or night, the house was filled with people indulging in orgies, kinky ass sex, bestiality, all kinds of shyt. Decadence and perversion ruled and the people who tired of it were easily replaced. I thrived on breaking in women, conquering and destroying, turning them on to freebase. The atmosphere was wild and evil.

Things had gotten so bad that I was studying the occult and I started claiming the devil.

In the midst of all this insanity and drug use, a woman named Cathy Townsend, daughter of Ed Townsend who co-wrote "Let's Get It On & Got To Give It Up," with Marvin Gaye. She started hanging around. Unfounded rumors suggest that her mother is white singer Connie Francis.

Anyway, I had met Cathy before and she was a born thief, and a hoe, which is how she paid for her drugs, still, I liked her. She was very funny and always kept me laughing. One day Cathy brought a girl, Courtney, to the house as a gift for me. She was dressed like a hoe. The first fifteen minutes she was there we were on the floor having sex. Later, I found out she loved smoking coke and she loved women.

When she left after spending a month with me, she went back to her pimp at a motel where they were staying. The pimp was a drug dealer and a drug addict, and he was furious at her for being at my house and not coming back with no money. This pimp had a way of punishing his women. He burned them with a pipe.

My girlfriend ended up taking Courtney to the hospital, the police came after me because when my girlfriend left the hospital, the staff took down my license plate number.

It was a big conspiracy.

 

[Paradise]

@Paradise Al Green had a habit of putting his hands on women


In 1974, singer Al Green was charged in a $100,000 civil suit for allegedly beating Linda Wills in his Memphis office. According to Wills, the violence started after she asked Green, why she had been fired from her job as a business manager at Al Green Music Publishing. Both parties also had a heated dispute about back pay-and without warning, Green allegedly started beating her.

Wills was allegedly taken to a hospital by Green's sister where she was treated for contusions, bruises and bleeding from the head.

This case was eventually settled out of court.

In 1979, Al Green was cleared of assault and battery on another woman (Lovie Smith).

*It's been rumored for years that Al Green and Patti LaBelle got into a heated altercation (backstage) when they were appearing in a play. Allegedly, the argument ensued when it was revealed that Patti (was taking time off) from the play to attend her sister's funeral.

Al Green sounds like a real dirt bag!

 

[Paradise]

The Debarge family curse????

Not many believe in the possibility of a person or group of people being “jinxed,” having a “curse” on them or being “hexed,” but the tragedy that befalls some people — even when much of it is self-inflicted — is so frequent and so intense that one has to wonder, at least for a few seconds.

So it is with the DeBarge family, from parents on down. Despite the major success of the three acts in the family — the band Switch, the group DeBarge and solo artist Chico DeBarge, the dark cloud looms large.

The amount of drug abuse and number of incarcerations within this family is mind blowing. There are seemingly as many police mugshots as there are Gold records. Is it hereditary? Environmental? Both?

EVERYTHING started out beautifully in the summer of 1978. Motown signed a band called Switch. Among the members were two young men from the family, Bobby and Tommy DeBarge.

They clicked right away. “There’ll Never Be” soared into the national Top 10, and they followed up with additional hits, most notably “I Call Your Name,” “Best Beat in Town” and “Love Over and Over Again.” The group was self-contained, meaning they played their own instruments.

Eventually the DeBarge brothers left which coincided with the group’s decline and eventual disbanding.

Grand Rapids-born Bobby DeBarge was the first in the family to succumb to drugs (in his case, heroin). He became addicted during the heyday of Switch and years later, 1988, was sentenced to five years in prison for drug trafficking. He died of complications from an STD contracted in prison.

IT IS perhaps not surprising that he turned to drugs. His father, Robert DeBarge Sr., who was white, was notorious for being domineering and physically abusive to his wife, Etterlene DeBarge, who is black. Also, according to one of the DeBarge siblings, Robert DeBarge Sr. also “sexually molested a lot of my brothers and sisters.” He died in 2009, no doubt with a guilty conscience.

Bunny DeBarge, the only female member of DeBarge, once stated bluntly, “I don’t hate my father, but he has a way of blocking things out of his mind.” (Bunny has reportedly kicked her drug habit and attributes being able to do so to her relationship with God.)

A SECOND group of DeBarges — El, Bunny, James, Mark and Randy — became an even bigger success. From 1982 to 1985 they enjoyed a string of major national hits, several of which are still popular today. Their seven biggest hits were “Time Will Reveal,” “Rhythm of the Night,” “I Like It,” “All This Love,” “You Wear it Well,” “Love Me in a Special Way” and “Who’s Holding Donna Now?”

By 1986, El DeBarge, who sang lead as well as writing and producing the songs, was a successful solo artist. In 2001, he was arrested for cocaine possession and received probation. He was given probation a second time, in 2006, on essentially the same charge. But when he was arrested in 2008 for possession of crack, he was sentenced to two years in state prison.

“DRUGS happened,” said Etterlene DeBarge. “When El got into drugs it just paralyzed him. He just couldn’t deal with all the people in the music industry. He couldn’t deal with their fakeness and people ripping him off. Motown had taken all of his publishing and they’re still making money from those songs.”

After his release, El DeBarge released a return album title “Second Chance” that was very successful. He said he had conquered his addiction, and many people, staunch and casual fans alike, were cheering him on. He was even on the cover of Ebony magazine. That was in 2010. But the following year he relapsed and went back to rehab.

He is again performing. EL’S YOUNGER brother, James, married Janet Jackson in 1984, but the marriage was annulled the following year. He, too, landed in jail on drug charges and according to reports, remains in semi-solitary confinement.

Chico DeBarge, never a member of either Switch or DeBarge, started his career in 1986 with the hit “Talk to Me.” However, things went sour with him receiving a six-year prison sentence on drug trafficking charges. Once released, he had the good fortune to record an album, in 1998, titled “Long Time No See” that was a big hit, featuring the popular “No Guarantee.”

What Chico DeBarge is doing now is not clear, but the assumption is that he is staying out of trouble. Regarding those prison years, he said wryly, “I be wantin’ those years back!”

This is just part of the intriguing, complex and ultimately sad story of the DeBarge family. It was a matter of too much too soon for the siblings who had already been scarred by their home life.

Fortunately, DeBarge music, from the good years, is easily attainable.


The continuous rise and fall of the DeBarge family

 

[Ol’Otis]

Grand Rapids-born Bobby DeBarge was the first in the family to succumb to drugs (in his case, heroin). He became addicted during the heyday of Switch and years later, 1988, was sentenced to five years in prison for drug trafficking. He died of complications from an STD contracted in prison.

i always thought Bobby contracted AIDS from a dirty needle

didn't know he was in prison getting it in



Robert Sr. was a devil

how the fukk you molest your kids

 

[Paradise]

i always thought Bobby contracted AIDS from a dirty needle

didn't know he was prison getting it in



Robert Sr. was a devil

how the fukk you molest your kids

Its some sick people out here man...

 

[Blackrogue]

That Jackson shyt

Over the years, LaToya Jackson had four beautiful black men (Bobby DeBarge, Teddy Pendergrass, Howard Hewett and Prince) in pursuit of her. DeBarge said, LaToya was the inspiration behind Switch's 1979 hit "I Call Your Name."

Oddly, LaToya never showed much interest in any of these men, instead, she married a violent flesh peddler-Jack Gordon

Ced the Entertainer made a joke about her and Michael being the same person

 

[Blackrogue]

It all makes sense now.

"I used to think about immature things. Like, do you love me, do you want me, are you gonna call like you said you would? Is this really your real phone number?"

I've heard that sampled somewhere else tho

 

[Blackrogue]

just realized who you were

 

[newworldafro]

yet here they are in their primes

 

[James Gordon]

i always thought Bobby contracted AIDS from a dirty needle

didn't know he was prison getting it in



Robert Sr. was a devil

how the fukk you molest your kids

Well cacs are animals its in their dna to do shyt like this

I've heard that sampled somewhere else tho

Rich boy used it on throw some ds

 

[Zpektro]

they'll make up some shyt and just dramatize fake shyt.

I mean look at Straight Outta Compton

Fake outta Compton literary.

 

[patscorpio]

According to Rick James: I hit rock bottom, the Mary Jane Girls were gone. Process and the Doo Rags split up. Val Young was now with Bobby Brown and most of the Stone City Band had left. I couldn't support them any longer because I was too busy getting high.

My world was crumbling right in front of me and I didn't care.

All my time was spent getting high and waiting on death.

Sometimes I would meet a chick and we'd get high for hours. Soon as she said she was married, something inside me said "NO!" The night I met Vanity at the awards, I also met Robert DeNiro's wife Barbara. She came on so strong that I was freaking. As soon as I found out she was Bobby's wife, I left her alone, and that's the truth.

I love gay people, especially the ones who don't thrown their shyt in your face. I have found some men handsome and even attractive-on a man level-that's honesty. But never have I wanted a man to suck my d**k or me to suck his.

When my contract was up with Motown, I flew to New York to meet with Clive Davis at Arista. I've always had a lot of respect for Clive, even though he refused the Mary Jane Girls when I was shopping them before Motown snapped them up. Clive, upon hearing their tape, sent me a letter telling me he didn't think the Mary Jane Girls were going to hit. He later apologized.

Back home, every hour of the day or night, the house was filled with people indulging in orgies, kinky ass sex, bestiality, all kinds of shyt. Decadence and perversion ruled and the people who tired of it were easily replaced. I thrived on breaking in women, conquering and destroying, turning them on to freebase. The atmosphere was wild and evil.

Things had gotten so bad that I was studying the occult and I started claiming the devil.

In the midst of all this insanity and drug use, a woman named Cathy Townsend, daughter of Ed Townsend who co-wrote "Let's Get It On & Got To Give It Up," with Marvin Gaye. She started hanging around. Unfounded rumors suggest that her mother is white singer Connie Francis.

Anyway, I had met Cathy before and she was a born thief, and a hoe, which is how she paid for her drugs, still, I liked her. She was very funny and always kept me laughing. One day Cathy brought a girl, Courtney, to the house as a gift for me. She was dressed like a hoe. The first fifteen minutes she was there we were on the floor having sex. Later, I found out she loved smoking coke and she loved women.

When she left after spending a month with me, she went back to her pimp at a motel where they were staying. The pimp was a drug dealer and a drug addict, and he was furious at her for being at my house and not coming back with no money. This pimp had a way of punishing his women. He burned them with a pipe.

My girlfriend ended up taking Courtney to the hospital, the police came after me because when my girlfriend left the hospital, the staff took down my license plate number.

It was a big conspiracy.

Rick's life.. was something else