Wednesday - February 21, 2007 by Kevin R. Scott
Monica

As Monica prepared to shoot the video for her next single, "Sideline Ho" the Atlanta based singer got with SOHH for an exclusive chat on her working relationship with Clive Davis, her status at J Records and what she would do differently.

Recently word has been spreading that Clive Davis wasn't in support of Monica's new image and single, "Sideline Ho."

"It's easy for people to forget but Clive Davis and I have had a long standing relationship. My relationship stared with Clive almost 13 years ago and we have a good working relationship. Even if there are things that we don't agree on, it's almost like a marriage, you agree to disagree and you keep it moving," Monica told SOHH.

After The Makings of Me disappeared from the Billboard charts and a video of her asking fans to petition J Records to finance her third video surfaced online, rumors began to fly that Monica would be dropped from her label for breaking with the girl next door image the label had painted of her.

http://blogs.sohh.com/soul/archives/2007/01/faith_evans_is.html
"At the time rumors started there was nothing even taking place. We just decided to say what we had to say and move on and started writing treatments for the 'Sideline Ho' video."

Looking back, Monica admitted she would have re-worked her strategy, not allowing her label to influence the selection of her singles and look to her fans for opinions.

"If I had to do something over again, I'd probably release more than one single and let the audience choose which one they would have wanted to hear," she admits.

In related news former J Records crooner Jimmy Cozier recently spoke exclusively with SOHH about his own difficulty when it came to getting support from the label.

"They would say my songs were 'too hood' or 'too street 'or 'it's not pop enough,'" Cozier said. "It got to a point to where a check was like a band aid. If Jimmy's upset, write him a check. It was like my concerns were written off with a check. After a while I was like, 'I can't.' I got with my lawyers and asked to be released from my contract."

source: http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/10958

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And I hear the rest of the Dipset crew fell back and don't even want to be involved in this beef--just Cam. Speak on it...

And now for a Ya Heard??? Blind Item...Who's behind this "Who Am I" promo? Shout out to Mike over at Universal for the vid.

http://www.liquident.net/uploads/itsmebitches2.html



Monica's fiance producer Rodney Hill is getting caught up in a Naomi Campbell syle story. At Jeezy's party this weekend in the ATL celebrating his new platinum status, Rodney (Rock) and Monica were chillin' in VIP when a "fan" got real rambunctious with Rock and security had to put her out. Now this woman is claiming that Rock beat and punched her and she's posting pics all over the internet to prove it.

http://www.thecrusade.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=25855

Rock says he would never hit a woman and noone in the packed club and VIP saw him do anything except her two friends. Her story rings of groupie love. Rock told media sources that this stan was all over him while Monica was not around at the time and reached into his pockets and crushed his $2000 Cartier shades. So he got heated but security snatched her up before he could do anthing. I actually interviewed Monica yesterday and she said she would bust a chick in the face before Rock would. She says this chick only sees dollar signs.


Check out Joe Budden's new track "Take It Off" ft. Thara.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/joe_budden-take_it_off_ft-_thara-mp3.html

Posted by SOHH Fabulous at February 15, 2007 9:57 AM

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My friend, and fellow colleague SOHH Soulman interviewed R&B Diva(ish) Monica Arnold recently. As I’m sure you’ve heard, Monica has been on the crazy defense after it was alleged that her fiancé Rocko flipped out and straight hooked off on some female fan that resulted in some serious injuries(allegedly). You can go over to O1LT.com to check out the photos if you haven’t seen them.

Of course Monica is standing by her dude and denying the altercation….blah, blah, blah, who cares right? The only thing that I found interesting about her various interviews, particularly Soulman’s, was her persistence in denying that she was kicked off of the J Records roster.

Listen, at the end of the day Monica is going to have face that fact that she is going to have to sell records to stay on a label. That’s just business!

Also, Monica fans you have a chance to appear in Monica’s new video, or something like that, I didn’t read the contest. But you can go here to find out more

Go on over to SOHH Soulful to read up more on Monica and Soulman’s conversation!

SOHH GYANT'S DOWNLOAD OF THE DAY -MONICA- "SIDELINE HO"

Posted by SOHH Gyant at February 28, 2007 4:54 AM

http://blogs.sohh.com/atlanta/2007/02/monica_is_still.html

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Well if you have a confession make sure you enter this.

A trip to the 2007 Soul Train Awards is a prize. Let us bow our heads in prayer because we are living in the last days. Real talk, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse just passed by my office window blasting "Spaceships On Bankhead."
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