According to Vibe Confidential, anyway...

Is Cassie Pregnant?

Cassie won't be winning any awards for her singing talent anytime soon, but she may be shopping for baby bottles and booties instead. Rumor has it that Miss Ventura has been laying low because she is rated PG. And the father of this alleged baby is none other than her producer Ryan Leslie. (Hmmm, what would Dallas Austin say about all this?)

Who woulda thought?

well ijust came across this last nigt reading about Joss Stone.....

In an interview with Rowdy TV, which is owned by his Rowdy Records label, producer Dallas Austin accused Joss Stone of having sexual relationships with producers in exchange for songs. This included the rapper Novel and singer Raphael Saadiq.

Austin later apologized for the remarks, stating; "My statement about Christina Aguilera and Joss Stone was a reaction to an incident I care not to discuss in any forum, and while I may have felt justified, I do owe an apology to Christina, Joss and their families."

"The comments I made were purely an act of retaliation, not of malice or cruel intent. ... I sincerely apologize as this is not my character nor should I have let anyone's actions push me to this limit."[


LINK

I heard a rumor on the radio this morning which claimed that one of the singers from Danity Kane is pregnant, and that Diddy is the father of that unborn child, but this hasn't been confirmed.

I thought we were done with these fucking threads

so if I had tracks, I could fuck Cassie?

gets on protools.....

WHO??

Moonbeam said:

Well i met Cassie Friday nite at BUTTER, she was out all this past weekend. The Ryan Leslie thing, lets be real, if they have a relationship, it was all his doing, she already had a record finished and had tons of myspace fans (over a million) and could have sold that shit and made more money. Ryan and Diddy found Cassie and he instigated all of it, so lets be real and stop pushing blame on the females, when its mostly these producers that cant keep it in their pants and use the "fame" as a way to get in there! As for the Diddy thing with Aubrey of Danity Kane, thats been a rumour since day one of that Making the Band, just the fact that he has a bunch of kids with different women how is she the one "fucking fo something" lets cut the double standard already, its called using your fame to get women, stop pretending like these dudes are victims, total bullshit. This is the same thing Prince did in the 80's and 90's slept with almost all the women he worked with. And lets not forget Claudette Ortiz of RB group City High who got knocked up by, rumour has it Wyclef who produced the group.
[Edited 3/28/07 19:30pm]

bboy87 said:

lastdecember said:

I agree 110%!

However, a woman/girl CAN say no, she's not going to have sexual relations with any producer or songwriter, of ANY gender, just to get a potential hit. I don't care (as a music fan & a man) how bad they feel they need the money or the fame, female artists don't have to do anything they don't want to do. AFAIC, there are no male or female victims here.

TonyVanDam said:

I just think this shit happens all the time when you have people working closely, whether its on a film or an album or just an office job, SHIT HAPPENS! The Bullshit is that these girls did this for their contracts is stupid though, the whole one-sided argument that Ryan or Dallas or Diddy are Victims of "Evil women" is a fucking joke. It is a huge double standard that has always existed in every aspect of life.

lastdecember said:

So did she have a belly bump?



I thought her kid was by one of the members of City High. They kept the relationship a secret.

ThreadCula said:

Shes a really thin girl, with probably the most beautiful faces i have ever seen, so my attetnion wasnt really on her stomach, if she is pregnant, she isnt laying low, because she was at Butter on Friday, 3 other clubs on Saturday, at a Robin Thicke concert at Irving Plaza and at another party with Christina Aguilera, so im not sure where vibe got the whole "laying low" headline, if she is pregnant its not showing.

As for Claudette,it was said to be a member of City High and yet it never came out which one, so many assumed it was wyclef because it wouldnt be the first time with him.

lastdecember said:

Got curious so I looked up Claudette's wiki...

Ryan Toby, former group mate, and Ortiz have been married for three years. They have 2 sons together. Ortiz's first son was born in 2003 with Toby. According to IMDB, Claudette also had a son with New Jersey rapper Malicious Jynx, born on Aug 19, 2004. Her third son Joel was born Aug. 12th 2005. Ortiz married Ryan Toby on Oct 14, 2004.

lastdecember said:

So you think its cool for a chick to fuck a dude and four of his friends? What does that say?
I agree that its not a good look when producers use their position to get laid but its equally as bad when women use their bodies to get what they want. Looks like Claudette's been around a bit, too.
Cassie NEEDS to fuck for NEW tracks; hers are as weak as water.

A shot from NYC that night, im on the left hiding myself (hate photos). Cassie looking great, have no idea if she is or isnt pregant, I hope she is not because shes a kid herself, i think thats a bigger issue here.

BlaqueKnight said:

The thing is whats on Cassies CD is what she did in the first place, Ryan did nothing. Lets remember Ryan and Diddy chased her down, she didnt go looking for them. As far as "Fucking for tracks", if Dallas or any other dude can prove they didnt "get paid" for their production and SEX was the only thing they got, nothing else, then i will say they got fucked for tracks. The point is everyone from Prince to Diddy to Ryan to Rick James to Glen Ballard has screwed females they worked with, As far as being weak as water 99.9% of RB tracks are weak as water.
[Edited 3/28/07 22:41pm]

BlaqueKnight said:

Also Diddy all other producers never have a problem with women and their bodies when they are making Videos and stuff like that, so you set yourself up for it if thats the route you are gonna go. Dont want women to play around with you, then dont work in this business, just like if you dont want to get screwed by a label dont sign with them.

lastdecember said:

OFF-Topic: Glen Ballard? Wait a minute! Are you saying that Alanis Morissette might have FFT too?!?

And just another little fact about Mr.Ryan Leslie, his tracks were removed from the Katharine McPhee record, why? because he made advances to her even after she said she was engaged, he was removed from the project thereafter. Seems like this guy likes hittin on girls he works with.....

TonyVanDam said:

They had a relation, but he broke her heart basically, cheated on her, stuff like that.

lastdecember said:

Ryan Leslie should be lucky that the future Mr. Katherine McPhee didn't come looking for him....yet.
[Edited 3/28/07 22:32pm]

bboy87 said:

I seriously like you more and more with each post. LOL

bboy87 said:

Shit. We all need to start making tracks

Janfriend said:

That's for sure. I already my list of "artists" who I wanna "work with"

lastdecember said:

Puffy has 4 kids by 2 women... Misa has 1 and Kim has 3... What is Puffy gaining by having sex with these 2 women (being that this thread is about someone supposedly having sex in exchange for music ) ? I'm in no way defending producer's action if they are infact using their fame to get women but in Puffy's case both women were in a relationship with him...

banks said:

I don't think Moonbeam was talking about who Puffy has children with. It's who he is sleeping with. Puffy has slept with more women than the two mothers of his children. The point was he usues his fame to get women. Most of the time it's for sex, not a relationship
[Edited 3/29/07 18:53pm]

BlaqueKnight said:

Lets be serious though, we can run through all of RB and POP and find 100's of artist that are worse than Cassie at vocals and music, and most of them are chart toppers. Look at American Idol, people are voting for a guy who cant sing for shit and voting for his hair, and we wonder why this industry is the way it is? I cant beleive Randy Jackson someone who plays music would even be a part of that, but its all for $ he really could care less about music. As far as casting, well i know all about that, having done 6 indie films i hear stories from actors and actresses all the time, ive heard from girls that have done Rap videos and never gotten paid because they refused to "give it up" as they say, im not gonna mention the names but they are big time in the rap game and most of them already have a woman or wife. But its also commonplace for people that work together to have relationships, i think many people confuse that with "sleeping" for advancement. I have had relationships with actresses that i have worked with, but when the relationships ended i didnt run around bad mouthing them about "fucking for a part", if you dont wanna be in that position than dont put yourself there to begin with.
[Edited 3/29/07 12:43pm]