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Growing up in a household where secular music was not allowed did not stop Jaguar Wright from finding a way to express herself. It wasn't long before she found an outlet rapping in a group called The Philly Blunts. Word of her improvisational stage skills spread at Philadelphia's famous Black Lily, a female emcee/artist showcase, where she became known for her forty-five minutes of free-styling songs off the top of her head. Her passionate vocal interpretations have become a trademark of her live performances. She has worked and toured with The Roots and as a backup singer on Jay-Z’s MTV Unplugged concert. Her first album, Denial, Delusions, and Decisions, was released in 2002. Her latest album on a new label, Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Soul will be in stores July 12. I had the pleasure of interviewing Jaguar recently. Here is what we talked about.




Honey: You started your career as a rapper with a group called The Philly Blunts. Is that correct?



Jaguar: Yes...yes yes yes [laughs]





[laughs] Ha, didn’t think I knew about that huh?



[laughs] Oh my goodness



Who or what inspired or encouraged you to go from a household where secular music wasn’t allowed to being in a rap group?



Yeah, well I wasn't living at home at that point in time. I was living with my aunt. I was always in love with music. I would sneak and listen to music. I remember when me and my sister were younger and my mom and my dad would go out and we'd be in the house. That would be the time to turn on Power99. We'd be partying and dancing and practicing new dances. Somebody would have to play lookout at the window. When my parents got just a couple of doors down, we'd turn off the music, fan off the stereo to make sure it wasn't too hot, put in a gospel tape, wipe off the sweat and act like we were cleaning or something. [laughs]



I guess that's what gave me the passion I have now for music because it wasn't allowed for me and because it was something I had to go and seek out. I wanted it even more. Most people just grew up hearing music in their house. Music became an adventure. It became a vacation that I could take anytime I allowed myself to use my ears. I still have the same zeal and zest for it as I did then.



What was the experience like going from your rapping into singing full-time?



Well it was a weird transition because I had no intention on being a singer. I was going to be a female emcee because I was never gonna be Whitney Houston. Nobody could be Whitney Houston. So I figured I'd make my mark in the rap world. I thought that was more practical for me. I fell in love with lyricism, and I fell in love with words. I went through my time when I was the hardcore rapper from the ghetto and then I turned into the intellectual thug. I would sit down and read dictionaries for days trying to learn every word I possibly could because I went through this one kick for like seven months where I said "Every rhyme you write, you're not gonna have one curse word in it. Your vocabulary is gonna be so sick you're not gonna even need it.” I had a way of making deep words sound real dirty [laughs]



You were part of the Black Lily Show. What was that experience like? Did you find it was more competition with the other women or was there a comradery?



No because nobody competes with me. I'm not saying that to be smart but when I get up on stage, the last thing I'm thinking about is anybody else. I'm not worried about your performance. I'm worried about mine. The only thing I'm worried about is being the best me I can be. Nobody can do that better than me. For me it was like crazy because the reason I came onto the show was to be the opening act because everybody was afraid to go on first. Nobody wanted to go on first.



Really? That's interesting.



Well because it was a small show. There was only like 13-20 people showing up at that time. So it was like yanno, if you go on first and you suck, not only are you gonna suck but you're gonna suck in front of all these little bit of people and they're gonna be looking at you like what the hell are you doing. So I would get up on stage, I would do my job and then it got to the point where people didn't want me to go on first anymore. The club made me the headliner. That's just how that whole thing went.



From the time I signed on, I watched that show go from having 20 people in the club to 50 people in the club. I mean literally every week there was a progression...75 people in the club and four months later, seeing the club packed with at least 400 people and having the club so packed that they were pushing in anywhere from 500-700 people in a line all the way around the corner just to see what was happening in that club. I had people walk up and tell me "hey we come every week just to see what you gonna do this week.” At that point in time I had no material. I would literally get up on stage for forty-five minutes and freestyle songs up off of the top of my head.



“Self Love” from Denials, Delusions, Decisions was my song. Vocally, you were just so powerful and gritty and I felt like I was right there hearing it live. The song on the new album that felt like that for me is "Do Your Worst.” You're known for your electrifying live performances. I'm wondering how did you recreate that energy in the studio? Or did you even try?



"Do Your Worst" is so interesting it was like one of the first songs I produced. Well I shouldn't take full credit for that. I should say co-produced with my very good friend Larry Cole. But they were my ideas and things that I wanted to do. We sat down in the studio and I got the band together and I gave them the chords that I wanted them to play and I told them the progressions that I wanted and yanno, they did a run through for about 45 minutes till we got all the changes and everything together. Then they played and I stood in front of the mic and twelve minutes later we had a song.



Wow, incredible. Who else did you work with on the project, Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Soul?



Goodness. Lord ha’mercy. A little bit of everybody. My very good friend James Poyser did “Still Waiting.” My very good friend Scott Storch did “High.” My newfound friend and my hip hop hero Mr. Chucky Thompson did “Timing.” My boys Carvan and Ivan who produced for Face and all the hits for Musiq Soulchild like ‘Love’ and ‘Don’t Change’, they did “Flower.” My also very good and old school friend who I’ve been working with ever since I was an emcee, which is God knows how long ago, Mr. TL Hotrunner here in Philadelphia who worked with the likes of Lil Kim, the guys from Junior Mafia, Lil Cease and so on and so forth. Also I did a gang of songs with my new friend, Mr. Raphael Saadiq and also there’s a song there with Mike City. So I mean it’s a very well-rounded project with some incredible producers on it. It’s amazing. The support and the love that came with this project and the enthusiasm, the zeal that the producers brought and the hunger and the relentless behavior that I brought and it just all fell together.



Lets talk about the title briefly. It’s called Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Soul. What type of statement were you trying to make with that?



Exactly what it says.



Is it more about you being emancipated or is more about your fans seeing you in a different light and not putting you in that “neo” box?



I never believed in it in the first place. It was a very, very tricky and cute marketing idea on how to sale a used car for brand new price Antique car, beautiful car, but used. To say what I am doing is new is to say I was never influenced by Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Roberta Flack, Tina Turner, or Etta James. It's an insult to our history..oh yeah, that was great but this is new. No, there ain’t nothing new about it. And how dare you take away my badge of honor, carrying that torch. How dare you diminish it. Neo means new and there is nothing new about soul music. What we’re doing today, it’s not new. It’s just next. It’s the next generation. Why are you stealing our right of passage? I don’t think anybody ever thought of that.



Would you say your career in the music industry is like a marriage?



It’s definitely a marriage. It’s the only relationship I have been in for over a decade where I keep getting kicked in my neck and still keep coming back for more. That’s love. You gotta love somebody to put up all the nonsense I put up with in this business.



In every marriage, there’s good and there’s bad and then there’s the “C” word “compromise.” Do you feel like you’ve had to compromise to stay in the business?



Of course I’ve had to compromise. I’m a black woman in the music industry. I’m a black woman in entertainment. Compromise was written in the contact [laughs]



On Denial, you remade a song by Patti Labelle “Love, Need and Want You.” On this one you remade Shirley Brown’s “Woman 2 Woman.” Why did you choose that song?



It’s a fantastic song and it has a lot to do with my life. I don’t think there’s a woman of color anywhere who can’t relate to that. It was a fantastic song that was done..now we’re talking thirty years ago. This generation of music lovers don’t even know about it. I think it has the right to live again. I changed it a little bit to make it more accessible because the ‘Woman 2 Woman’ that Shirley Brown did was fitting for that time and it was edgy for that time but the world has changed significantly since then. So I wanted to give that song another chance to live so these young girls 16, 17, 22, thirty something who were children like me when that song was born can have it for their generation.



You’ve been compared to Millie Jackson, Denise LaSalle, Betty Wright. Do you listen to those artists today?



Yes I do.



Are there any current artists you listen to?



I always go back to the roots. There are some new ones I like but to be very honest with you, I'm very disappointed with my generation and what we're doing with music. Listen to the songs that are being made and put out on the radio. Who's gonna remake the ‘Whisper Song’ twenty years from now? Who’s gonna remake ‘Oh’? Who’s gonna remake any of the Usher ballads? These are not songs we can carry with us throughout the generation.



We’re cheating our children. I’m giving the next generation their rite to passage that was given to me. That’s my job. It’s a grave responsibility to be an artist. There’s a huge responsibility that comes along with it. We’re cheating them out of their history by not doing it.




Now your babies are still young?



12 and 3



Is your 12 year old showing an interest in music as far as performing or just listening even?



I was shocked when he knew all the lyrics to T.I.’s songs. Which is when I got really scared because they was playing that damn ‘Whisper Song’ at three o’clock in the afternoon when my son comes home. I don’t want my son going to school talking bout ‘wait till you see my dick.’ There’s nothing cute about that.



There’s nothing cute about Ciara sittin’ there humpin’ on a car like a deranged Chihuahua.



[laughs]



I liked that lil’ girl (Ciara) until I saw her humpin’ on that car. And it’s not like it made me not like her. My heart went out to her. What happens when you grow up and your children watch you sitting there pounding away on that car? Now Ludacris stood up there looking like a man, lookin’ like he had some common sense and you in the back gyrating like a crazy monkey on the top of a car.



There’s other little girls who are watching her who use her a role model, who wanna be like her. What happens when one of them pull that out in the street and the local pedophile is sitting there watching them waiting to catch them at night. No responsibility at all! And what is that saying about our young music generation? Crawling around on your knees. Get the hell up, get some Vaseline and clean that shit up, you gettin’ ashy. Get up!



Somehow after we did all the fighting that we did in this industry and in this business for our respect and to be treated and respected as equals, as artists and as business people. We finally win it and now everybody’s back on their knees. It’s like ok, thank you for the respect now we’re going back to the misogyny. Thank you, now that you respect my individuality can I get on my knees and show you my tits? What is wrong with people? Stand up girl, get up off your knees!



Has anyone ever approached you in your career and asked you to do sexually suggestive video?



I wish someone would tell me ‘Yeah Jag, we gonna make this video and we want you to stand in the middle of the street and strip down to your draws and then take a bottle and hold it between your thighs.’ I will punch somebody in they mouth! It’s tacky.



If I’m gonna get naked it, it’s gonna make sense. I believe in art, I don’t believe in trash. Grace Jones can get naked anytime she wants. I love it. But it’s art. There is a purpose, its about empowerment. I can respect Madonna. I can respect Tweet for her new video. It was beautiful. But she wasn’t sitting there pumpin on no car. There’s a way of doing things. There’s nothing wrong with sexual freedom and sexual expression. We are sexual beings. But we’re not trash cans. Whatever happened to being a gorgeous beautiful woman? You know what I mean? What ever happened to “I can show it to you but you can’t touch it until I say so.” Whatever happened to that? Who’s teaching these little crazy ass kids that?



Maybe it’s about the marketing. For instance, you’ve heard the whole R. Kelly saga I’m sure?



Oh Jesus



[laughs] The marketing of that has really got people caught up. I was like...ok, I have to hear the next part and the next part and so on.



When I first heard it I thought I would be more excited about listening to the next part and I really wasn’t. Number one, you’re a married man right writing a song about going to the clubs cheating on your girlfriend with some woman you barely know and you’re having sex with her obviously on the first night you met her. There’s nothing cute about that, that you’re that trifling. That you went into this with a clear mind, you laid up in somebodies house and you don’t know what kind of danger is coming for you. What kind of man is that? Furthermore, now you running around with a gun. What are you telling children? Then the man supposed to be the minister is sleeping with another man. Now you’re mocking the church.




Do you think that was his intention or he had some other motivation?



I have no idea. All it sounds like is you done lost your fucking mind! And he’s talented. I’m not taking anything away from that cause you know what, he sang his ass off in that song. But that’s all you got to talk about? Is cheating on your wife with a woman who’s obviously married to a gay man and she didn’t know and yall both finding out about the same time and you got a gun and you sitting up here in a place you don’t know and you just running around having sex sticking your dick in anything and everything. There’s nothing to glorify about that.



It’s disgusting because the saddest part is that you don’t even realize that you’re dehumanizing yourself. You’re desensitizing yourself. And your humanity. And once we start losing our humanity what’s the difference between us and the animals?



Let’s talk about your song writing. Are you the kind of person who can write songs anywhere, they just come to you in the middle of the night? Or do you have to have solitude?



No, it’s whatever, wherever. I’ll get an idea and it wont leave me. There’s this one song that I wrote for my next album which I’m so looking forward to. It’s almost done. Now I’m up to eleven songs and song ideas that I have for that album so far. I so can not wait for it. The song that I wrote has no music and I love it. It’s about a woman of course talking to her man, a stupid fool and she asks...[starts to sing]

Why are you being so difficult.. [continues song]



Wow! How long do we have to wait for that one? [laughs]



[laughs] Well I’m hoping to have the album out and done with production and in mix down phase by December of this year. It’s such a great song and I have this other really fantastic idea for a song that I wrote. It’s so great. It’s so incredible. The hook is...[starts to sing]

Pick up your bags..[continues song]



Oh it’s fantastic and its got this crazy Latin congo beat underneath. It’s gonna be so bananas! I’m gonna start working on production for that in like two months.



So you’re always a step ahead?



Oh completely. I’m done with this album. I’m on to the next one cause I gotta get started writing the fourth album next fall. I’m finally at a label that’s willing to put my projects out as I’m done with them. There’s absolutely no reason why from this point on I shouldn’t be putting out an album every 18 months.



So you have more freedom at Artemis?



Oh completely. That was the whole point of the deal. That’s the only reason I would agree to sign to a smaller entity because they gave me the ability to do what I want to do. It’s gonna be such an incredible album. Then I can finally do the fourth album. That’s gonna be really hot because I’m trying my hardest to vibe with Lenny Kravitz to help me produce the album.



I heard at one time the “Divorcing Neo..” album was supposed to be released on June 28th and I understand now its been moved to July 12th. As a fan when I hear that it’s a little frustrating because we don’t know what’s going on. Is that something that affects you or do you just go with the flow?



We pushed it back because we needed to. We pushed it because we want to make sure that when we bring it, we bring it.



The one thing about being on an independent is when we strike, we gotta strike. The majors have everything all bought up. They got everything all pushed out and we don’t want to get overshadowed in any way possible. We also want to make sure that the release date we’re going out on, we’re getting the chance to get the same store traffic as the big guys. We have to take advantage of every possibility. We can’t buy up everything. We have to earn it.



I don’t mean to piss anybody off but it’s been three years. If you waited this long you can give me two weeks. It’s just two weeks, go the beach, come back it’ll be there [laughs]



On your last album there were some songs that weren’t radio friendly. There was some cursing used to express yourself. Have you had any negative feedback about that? Did you feel any pressure not to curse as much on the new one or do you even think about it?



I don’t think about it all because these are my thoughts. My ideas. What most people don’t realize about that first album is it was every situation I experienced in my life that I knew I had in common with at least half of the world and my take on what happened to me and how I dealt with it and made my way through it.



I make music for adults. If you're so caught up in the words then obviously you weren't paying attention to the message. The things I say on that album is what anybody would have said had they been through what I went through. I have nothing to be ashamed of. Marvin Gaye cursed in his songs whenever he felt like it and nobody ever said anything. It’s so funny because people say to me “Oh you put so much out there, you have no boundaries.” When did soul music ever have boundaries?



[starts to sing Aretha Franklin’s “Never Loved A Man”] ....the way you treat me is ashamed, you ain’t no good... [continues song]



C’mon, this woman was sitting up here as strong and beautiful as she was, sitting up here talking about how she willingly let this man make a fool out of her. Where are the boundaries in that? Marvin Gaye singing about his cocaine addiction but making it sound so beautiful.

[sings a few bars of Marvin Gaye’s “Flying High”] ...flying high in the friendly sky...without ever leaving the ground....



C’mon now



You’re right. Marvin even sang a song about giving head,“Soon I’ll Be Loving You Again.” Actually that’s one of my favorite Marvin Gaye songs [laughs]



[laughs] Before he died, his next album that was supposed to come out was “Sanctified Pussy”



That’s right. Do you feel that there is a double standard there because you’re a woman?



Of course there is. No one wants to hear a woman be a woman.



Sometimes people describe you as “real, powerful, raw, ghetto.” Would that be an accurate description? Does being called “ghetto” offend you?



No, because it is what I am. It’s so funny, one of the makeup artists I’ve been using came up with a new phrase for me. Ghettopolitan. And that’s exactly what I am. I love it! I'm ghettopolitan! Cause there is nothing wrong with the ghetto. The ghetto is the birthplace, the womb of every great culture or movement. That's where the pain is baby. That’s where real life is. It’s not in the suburbs. It’s not in the shopping malls. It’s not in the spas. It’s not in Gucci. So yeah, I’m ghetto baby. I’ll wear that. The funny thing is I grew up in both. I grew up in the suburbs and the ghetto. But is was the ghetto where I grew. I’m gonna get me a t-shirt made up, wear that bad boy on stage. Yes I am [laughs]



Can we clear up some rumors?



Go ‘head. Ask me what you wanna ask me. I’m an open book.



Is there any truth to the rumor that you had a fight with a fan on a rooftop when you were pregnant?



I was nowhere near pregnant and they were not a fan. They were calling me a n*gger b*tch. Me and The Roots had a concert at MIT and a runner had taken us to the store to pick up a few things. I’m gonna tell you the story so you can get it right. We get out of the car with the runner and we’re headed back to the bus and I hear these drunk white boys hollering off the roof and I’m like uh college boys having a good time, no big deal. ‘What’s up homie. What’s up my nigga’ Ok so I look up and I’m like nah, they not talking to me. ‘You don’t hear me n*gger?’ I’m like ok, they gettin’ real free wit it and I looked up and said "I know you not talking to me" and they said ‘Yeah I’m talking to you, you n*gger b*tch’. I’m from North Philly, them fighting words.



So I dropped everything I had in my hands and ran into the building. There was a kitchen there. Picked up the first thing I could find, a big metal serving spoon. Ran clean up without breaking stride nine floors. Came up on the roof and said "Who the fuck said it? Who said it? Was it you?!" Now mind you, it was just lil’ ole me and about twenty white boys, five white girls, and a token Asian look like he was part Samoan. So I’m like "Who said it? Who said it?" And then here comes my brother Black Thought (The Roots) cause he wasn’t gonna leave me up there on that roof alone. God bless his heart. Next thing you know people started swinging beer bottles and next thing you know somebody snatched a beer outta somebody hand and we had at it. We got jumped by fourteen frat boys on a roof. They got a surveillance picture of me banging somebody over the back of their neck with that serving spoon.



[laughs]



[laughs] Damn right! Call me a n*gger b*tch, I’mma hurt you. Especially when I gave you a chance to clean it up. It went from n*gger to n*gger b*tch real fast. Now see, I could have lived with the “n*gger” but when you put the b*tch behind it, I gotta whip your ass! And I lumped up the back of his neck too. Me and Black Thought. The funniest thing about it is here comes the runner running up on the roof ‘Stop it! You’re fighting the Roots!’ [laughs] and then everybody backs up cause we were there for a concert that night. Like aw shit. The whole fraternity was banned. They had to shut the fraternity down. They had to do a line up. We had to pick 'em out and all that nonsense. Tell you one thing. Every time they hear my voice, they’ll remember, you respect the black woman. That’s gonna stick in their minds. So yeah, that wasn’t a fan. No fan of mine calling me a n*gger b*tch.



I know, right [laughs]. I’m glad we could clear that up cause I heard that floating out there and was wondering. Cool. Just one more rumor and then we can get back to discussing the music...unless you got something else you wanna tell me [laughs]



[laughs] Tell me what you wanna know. One thing about me, I am not shy. I don’t believe in it. When I turned 22 years old, I made a deal with myself that I was gonna be honest even when it hurt. I would not lie to myself or anyone else. I will be honest to a fault because I need that in my life. My word and my integrity mean everything. So I’m honest about things most people wouldn’t be honest about. I’ll speak about things most people wont speak about even if it hurts me to say it.



There was a rumor you said some negative things about Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans and Ashanti and that you didn’t like them etc.



What’s negative about it? Mary J. Blige doesn’t like me.



Why doesn’t she like you?



I have no idea. The woman does not like me and it’s just like ok, alright well. The hell with her then. You ain’t gotta like me. That’s the thing I don’t understand about women in this business.



And Faith Evans particularly, I like Faith. I think Faith is ridiculous! I’ve always thought she was ridiculous. I ain’t got nothing against Faith. Mary J. Blige maybe I do because I don’t like nobody that don’t like me for absolutely no reason at all. I never spit on that girl. I never stole her boyfriend. I never stole no publishing. I didn’t do nothing to that woman. I mean she just don’t like me. So if we gonna talk about some rumors, lets start a new one. Mary J Blige doesn’t like me! I don’t like nobody that don’t like me.”



Ashanti? What can I say bad about her? She’s a cute girl. She holds a little tune but she’s not a real singer. You’re not gonna sit up there and make me have more respect for her than what she deserves. She can’t stand on the same stage with India.Arie. She can’t stand on the same stage with me. She can’t do it. I didn’t do that to her. That’s who she is. I’m not lying and I don’t have anything against these people. I’m happy for every black woman that doesn’t have to be on welfare.



Does it bother when the rumors get more attention than your music?



I don’t care. People talking is better than people not talking. You can talk bad about me as long as you talking cause I know who I am! When they don’t talk, that’s the problem.



Do you feel that you’ve changed now that you‘ve had your babies? Sometime when people have children they feel like they have calmed down. Would you say that’s the case for you?



The fire is still there, the passion is still there cause that’s all that is in me. It’s just redirected into the areas where it’s better suited. I haven’t changed. I’ve grown. There’s a difference.



I’m finally starting to see my purpose. My purpose is showing up. I always knew there was something special and important that I had to do. I always knew that I was gonna be a martyr for some cause I just never knew what it was. Now God is finally revealing it to me and thanks to my children I see it now. I’m here to keep the spirit of whence we came alive. It is my job to troop for decency and integrity and honesty. You know I’m looking at the legacy that my generation is leaving for my children, you know what I mean, and it is not cool cause we got better than that. They deserve better than this. That’s my purpose. I wanna save these babies. I want the truth to be there and that’s who I am. I am the Joan of Arc of the soul movement. God Bless it cause its such a great responsibility but I’m so thankful that he’s given it to me.



If someone hadn’t heard of Jaguar Wright and you had to describe yourself, who would you say you are?



I’m a soul singer, nothing more, nothing less.



And if someone picked up your album, what should they expect to hear?



Reality and common sense. That’s what I’m selling. God knows we need it. Our people need it right now. All people need it right now. I’m trooping for what’s turning into a lost cause and that’s responsibility and heart and dignity and decency. I’m not saying I’m a perfect person and I’m trying to pick myself and put myself up to be Mother Theresa but just because I’m not perfect doesn’t mean I can’t try to be good.



I wanna thank you for sharing your time with me today. Is there anything I didn’t ask that you wanted to get out there? Anything you wanted to say to your fans?



Thank you. Thank you and I hope you like it. I really do hope you like it. Now the question is do you have everything you need? You’re writing this piece. This is your star.



Aww that’s sweet. Well maybe we could touch on the new album a little more. I’m fascinated by the whole process.



What about it?



Do you see this album as having a story, a flow? Like a beginning and an end? Or did you just have some good songs that you wanted to include on the album?



There’s definitely a flow there. There’s a story there. It’s a progression. If anything I wanted it to feel like a ride. I didn’t want you to get bored. I didn’t want it to become stale. I wanted it to feel good and I didn’t want the topics to be too far removed from each other but to be cohesive and I think I did that. I write what’s in my heart and I try to make it all make sense.



What do you see yourself doing down the line. Do you always want to be performing, maybe producing?



I’m gonna be singing till I die. There’s a million things I want to do. Of course I’m gonna be producing, of course I’m hoping that someone’s brave enough to actually sing some of my lyrics that I wrote for them. I definitely want to develop some of my background singers. They’re fantastic! I want to help make their ride easier than mines was. I want to do my mentoring program. I want to get my foundation off the ground. I want to open up my small chain of restaurants. I want to be a good mother. I want to be a good grandmother. I want to be a good person. I want to make sure that my father dies comfortably and that my mother is taken care of. There’s a lot of things I want to do. I want to write my book. I want a role on Broadway. I want to finish writing my screenplay that I started a couple years ago. I want to be in a movie. I’m an artist and I’m an entertainer so I know I would be a great dramatic artist.



Would you do anything differently in your career up to this point?



Nope, not a thing. Actually yes there is one thing I would do. I would start it earlier [laughs]. That’s the only thing. I would have got started a little earlier cause right about now I’d be putting out the fourth album. That’s about it though. Time keeps on ticking. I’m 28, be 30 in a heartbeat. I’m still young but time passes by so fast and there is so much to do and so little time.



It sounds like you are on the right track and you’re gonna stay on that track doing what you do.



Till the day I die. I’m never gonna reach the top of the mountain but I’m gonna keep on climbing.



Amen to that. I do think I have everything I need. Again thank you. Like you said, you’re an open book.



Yes I am. I have nothing to hide. How will we learn if we don’t share. Thank you Vonnie. I so appreciate it. It’s been a pleasure.

her new cd got a blahh review from entertainment weekly.

sosgemini said:

Who gives a fuck?

Looking @ the albums they(along with raggedy ass RollingStones) keep giving to. I wouldn't read about who they'll bash.

They gave Tweet's new album the blah treatment too,,,and its on my heavy rotation

Anyway, I listened to couple of clips from Jag's new album and I like what I heard

that is one of the best interviews i've ever read

RockAbilly said:

Expand your reading material beyond The Beano then.

I remember reading her Thank Yous on her 1st CD. She seemed really bitter, even telling the grandparents of her child that they would never see the child. Yes! She said that ON the Thank Yous section of her CD. She's pretty twiated.

TheCrucialExperience said:

i really enjoyed this interview
if you didn't so be it
but, why question my enjoyment with a supposition on my intellect

Same shit different day, things change, but what about me
It’s cool I know the game, find a way to deal with the pain
Same shit different day, things change but what about me
Pass away and go on, on, on, on
I forgive you yes but I won’t forget no, no

Jaguar is Gangsta!!!!! I am glad she is back.....love her!!!

serpan99 said:

WHOA!

Thanx a bunch

Harlepolis said:

Hey ur welcome!! Here's 24 pictures from her performance:
http://sites.nps.nl/jerom...E81D224D65




Perhaps u also like Miss Leela James from Los Angeles:
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-..._james.wmv

Or maybe somebody in da house likes Common:
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-...common.wmv

serpan99 said:[quote]

Harlepolis said:

Hey ur welcome!! Here's 24 pictures from her performance:
http://sites.nps.nl/jerom...E81D224D65





She looks like my girl...right before she ...goes..... down...
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TheCrucialExperience said:[quote]

serpan99 said:

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Wow we are on a roll with dissing sister this week on the org.

laurarichardson said:

Naw, that wasn't a diss...that pic just brought back - LAST SUNDAY NIGHT'S MEMORIES!

TheCrucialExperience said:

I always reply to people who keep bringing that up...you don't know what those people did to that girl to make her unload on them like that. Now granted, if I was blessed with a voice and lucky enough to get it pressed & put out there..I wouldna wasted space time or a second thought on those who hurt me in the past but obviously Jaguar felt the need to get it off her chest. That doesn't or shouldn't take away from the fact that she's got a decent voice, put out a very good debut disc and I hope is on her way to a long career.

Harlepolis said:[quote]


Harlepolis: Thank you so much for posting. I'm a constant lurker on this board and you always seem to either start interesting posts or make informed comments. Thanks again!

Tajeznah said:

Ok, cool but why put it out there like that for her kid to see once he gets old enough to read? Why put that out there? What good does it serve? And no one said it took away from her voice or singing, just that the broad is twisted for putting her business out there like that. That's PURE GHETTO and the shit just ain't cute.

TheCrucialExperience said:

Co-sign.

Good intv LONG but good I'm lovin' the spoon fight

Great interview...thanks for sharing. I've always enjoyed Jaguar's music and her honesty. A lot of people can't take the fact that she's so real and honest about expressing herself. They think she has a straight up funky attitude.