Rapper Eve Reveals How An Encounter With Mase Changed Her Life [Video]

Last night, VH1 aired the Behind The Music episode chronicling the life and career of Eve. Her story is an interesting one and even that description is an understatement.

Besides discussing her time as a stripper at the age of 17 and her various bouts with depression as well as highlighting her Grammy win and landing the starring role in a sitcom, her episode revealed a fact that I knew nothing about.

It turns out, rapper-turned-pastor-turned-rapper again Mase played a key role in Eve giving up stripping and focusing her full attention on pursuing a rap career.

Eve revealed in her episode that when she was a stripper at a club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mase walked into the club one night and Eve caught his eye.

He asked her what her name was and of course she lied and gave him a bunch of pseudo names but he later asked to speak with her privately.

During their private conversation, Mase told Eve that she was talented and that she didn’t belong in a strip club. Taking note of that, Eve made the life changing decision to give up stripping for good.

In Eve’s words,

“He [Mase] came into the club and looked at me and literally was like ‘what’s your name?’ and I gave him every stripper name under the sun. I was like I’m Ginger, I’m Sassy. And he’s like why don’t you get dress, let’s just go talk and we did. We talked throughout the night. He was like you’re really talented. Like, you’re, this is not…what are you doing? You know you’re not supposed to be here, you know it. It was a confirmation for me that all these thoughts, all this sadness, all these times where I wake up in the morning and I’m like why do I feel like this and I know I’m not supposed to be there. It just woke me up.”

Mase has been giving guidance to people for a while huh?!

Check out the clip of the episode when you…

M.Y. Recap: 52nd Annual Grammy Awards

Please excuse my extreme tardiness when it comes to the recap of the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. I spent the better half of Monday traveling and was so jet-lagged after 5 hours of non-stop plane hopping that I collapsed in bed when I got home only to awake this morning lol.

Between the fam and I wildin’ out for the majority of the award show, there wasn’t anything spectacular about the Grammy’s. I personally stopped caring about the award show a long time ago and more so look forward to the performances instead of the winners.

Lady Gaga opened the show with her musical of “Poker Face.” The singer performed with Elton John during the latter part of her performance.

The best performances would have to go to…

Maxwell. The singer performed his hit single “Pretty Wings” and dived right into a duet with legendary songstress Roberta Flack. The two sang her song “Where Is the Love” and it was beautiful.

I’m not sure if anyone else caught the theme of this year’s Grammy’s, but their slogan was “We’re All Fans.” Throughout the night, some artists performed with other artists that they admire as shown my Maxwell’s performance with Roberta Flack and Lady Gaga’s performance with Elton John.

The other performance that was one of the best performances came via Pink who went Cirque du Soleil, dipped in water mind you. The singer sported a nude cat suit with sparkles covering up her not-suitable-for-TV parts and swung high above the audience performing her song “Glitter in the Air.” Her performance was very captivating and left a lot of people in awe.

Beyonce performed her song “If I Were a Boy”, which was mashed-up with Alanis Morisette’s “You Oughta Know.” I was honestly expecting more as her entrance was so dramatic it was as if we were about to be hit with that new-new. “If I Were a Boy” is so vintage, so 2008 in regards to the music scene; I was hoping that she would have performed her song “Sweet Dreams.” She hardly performs that song live and the last time she did at the MTV European Awards it sucked, sorry.

On a great note, Beyonce ended up setting a new record for the most Grammy awards taken home by a female artist when she took home 6 awards. The record was originally set by Lauryn Hill, Norah Jones, Alicia Keys and Beyonce herself taking home 5 awards in one night.

The Black Eyed Peas brought the house down with their performance. A lot of people wonder why they are successful. I believe it is largely impart due to their ear for creating memorable feel good songs.

Jaimie Foxx performed “Blame It” for the umpteenth time with T-Pain. Rock & Roll heavyweight Slash from Guns N’ Roses represented on the guitar as “Blame It” took on a more rock & roll feel.

Lil Wayne, Drake and Eminem ended up closing out the show with Wayne and Eminem performing “Drop the World” and then switching gears into “Forever” all with Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker killing it on the drums. Kanye West was noticeably absent.

I think this was Eminem’s first time at the Grammy’s! I could be wrong.

All in all the award show was ok at best. There were performances that were pretty good which made for a great night in music, some I could have definitely done without.

RandomBlurt: Were you as shocked and perplexed to see the cast of MTV's Jersey Shore on the red carpet?! That was worthy of two head shakes.

VH1 Divas Recap: Hit or Miss?

VH1 Divas returned to VH1 after a five year hiatus last night and the Diva line-up was without a doubt different from the Diva line-up in VH1'a past (which has been Mariah Carey, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, and even Brandy to name a few). The VH1 corresponder during the night kept on saying the same thing I was thinking "Divas are not supposed to be so nice", she should have told that to VH1 who did the casting. Then again, they can only pick what music has to offer.

Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, Leona Lewis, Adele, Miley Cirus, and Jordin Sparks were the selection for VH1 Divas 09'.

When I first found out that Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cirus, and Jordin Sparks were going to be Divas I thought for sure that there was some behind the scenes business going on with Disney and American Idol. I mean...Paula Abdul was the host, that might have been a bone thrown by Simon.

These girls, though have a cult following of devoted fans, wouldn't know the true meaning of Diva if it were stamped on the insides of their eyelids and yet they were selected.

Jennifer Hudson, who in personal opinion is the only real Diva in the line-up, was added at the very last minute. The great thing the girls did that help lighten up my tough critique, was that they redefined the meaning of what Diva meant to them.

Going into the episode I had already rated the special a fail. Although I love me some Kelly Clarkson and Jordin Sparks and heart Leona Lewis, Adele, and Jennifer Hudson's voices, I was convinced that this year's Divas was going to leave a bad taste on my eye because of their diluted line-up; I have to say that the finished product wasn't that bad.

There were special appearances from Sheryl Crow who was drowned out by Miley Cirus's excessive yelling...I mean singing...during their duet, my favorite artist Stevie Wonder who sang with Jennifer Hudson a definite ear treat, India Arie who sang with Adele (Adele has a whole lot of soul), Martina Mcbride duet with Jordin Sparks, Melissa Etheridge sang with Kelly Clarkson and brought the house down, and Leona Lewis meshed well with Cyndi Lauper on stage.

Though this special was very different from VH1 Diva's past, I was just happy to see familiar TV again. We have been so buried under mountains of reality TV, that scripted tv shows have become practically nonexistent. The Diva special was refreshing because it allowed us to see what artists do best, sing.

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