Can She Talk? Tamar Tells Anderson Cooper Nicki Minaj’s Hair Is An Atrocity

September 18th, 2012 - By Brande Victorian

You know how some celebrities refuse to badmouth others, even when people try to coax them into it? Tamar Braxton is not one of them. During an appearance on “Anderson Live” to promote her new spinoff, “Tamar and Vince,” Anderson Cooper totally baited the outspoken Braxton baby sister into a discussion on hair weave, starting with the most offensive wearer of all, Nicki Minaj. Anderson asked what she thought of Nicki’s technicolor weaves, and though Tamar tried to preface her response with admiration for the rapper, she still went in.

“Well listen, I love Nicki, everybody loves Nicki. I love Nicki and I feel like I can speak about it because I’ve had a couple of bad wig moments myself. That is an atrocity. Okay, ain’t nobody got time for that. Neon hair?”

LOL at a couple of bad wig moments, although I must say, Tamar’s soft blonde waves are pretty on point in this segment. As for Nicki’s hair, I have to agree with Tamar’s next statement:

“Put that back in the box and put her upstairs boo.”

Bless her extra heart.

After going in on Nicki, the convo turned to the combination of faux hair atop Tamar’s head and she went in on somebody else for tweeting and asking what type of weave she wears. Apparently that’s a no-no in weave culture? Once they got past the hair weave killing, Anderson also managed to show a clip from Tamar and Vince’s new spinoff which airs in two days on WETV.

Check out the segments here. How are you feeling about Tamar’s appearance on “Anderson Live?”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001496807494 Rhonda Jackson-Duppins

    Madame Noir, please keep the articles flying because people are enjoying the discussions and for those who don’t, “Madame Noir is not going to take your advice anyway doofus you just want to make your negativity known. Now you have been acknowledged……………………..Pointless Huh?” Keep em’ coming Madame!:)

  • disqus_WfmNqv9gsC

    what a pointless article. Please dont become yahoo Madame Noir.

  • Tisha

    Dear Tamar, SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP AT THE SAME DAM* TIME, in everybody’s business toya and k, then jill scott, we see you gir,l honey you dont have to speak that loud plus you dont have the best of do’s yourself

  • Shaybaby

    As many times as Tamar has looked like she had 5 wigs sewn onto her head, she’s one to talk. She needs to have several of those seats she’s always talking about…

  • genii love

    What is the big deal about sharing where she got her hair from? aside from the fact that she has had more than just a ‘few’ bad wig moments…why not spread the weave love? I’m always happy to share where i got my hair from when i am weaved up!

  • Emm

    So we can’t have an opinion now? Like the Gabby and the olympics comment– that was understandable, that was a child doing her own thing and paving the way and her hair was just in a standard ponytail like everyone else.

    But now because I’m black and a woman, I’m being foolish if I make a comment on another woman’s hair? Sometimes you need to call a spade a spade– that is a bad wig, your weave looks a mess, your afro is a little dry, your wash and set just didn’t set right. White folks, asians, and hispanics do the same thing. Sometimes I think we are our own worst enemy because we spend so much time pointing the finger at each other.

    If you wear a wig or weave you aren’t always trying to look like Pocahontas, if you’re natural you’re not always trying to claim mother Africa, if you have a relaxer you aren’t always thinking “white is right”.

    Maybe we should get away from thinking our hair is our glory? Maybe we should think of our hair like our clothes– just another accessory to be dressed up or down depending on our mood– and keep it moving!

    • ThereIsHope

      Malik El-Shabazz (Malcom X) coined this: BLACK SELF-DEGRADATION. How can we as Black Women say a word about racism, when we (literally) go into debt trying to emulate the hair of “their” females? I’m not running my laptop battery low tryna dissuade from subjecting your (and your hapless daughter[s]‘) scalps to sodium hydroxide chemical paste to ‘make your hair more manageable’. If your life isn’t complete without the daily aromas of fried hair (flat iron away!) to confirm that you ‘look your best’….you’re not the only one. Just don’t go shakin no stick at Anderson Cooper for providing the environment for providing the forum in which (yet another) Sistah PLAYED herself AND got on some willie lynch $#it for Points with the tv station. It’s nothin new. “They” will always get “their” biggest kick watchin US dime each other out. If your own natural hair ain’t ‘good’ enough for you…who am I to discourage you from supporting an industry where We remain “their” biggest joke—yet most-loyal customer?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001496807494 Rhonda Jackson-Duppins

    I don’t like Tamar AT ALL but just to let ya know, if I feel like being in a conversation then I will. I don’t have to live my life trying to kill stereotypes just because some idiots want to make a good impression. I’ll turn it on and turn it off when I feel like it. I will ALWAYS be assertive so if that is a part of the stereotypes that whites and other blacks are describing, so be it. See what your stereotypical judgments get you when you present them to God, NADA! This world is temporary and everyone is expendable because everyone is flawed, bottom-line.

    • Emm

      Preach!

  • NikkitaMichelle

    By the way I can’t stand Nicki’s hair and costumes. She’s too pretty to walk around looking like a clown.

  • NikkitaMichelle

    Okay I see this has turned into a conversation about black women who feed into our stereotypes by the way that they might act. Stereotypes come from SOME truth. They’re not totally the truth, but no one can say they don’t know someone like Tamar. I do, they’re in my family. You have to accept people for who they are. Tamar does not represent black women as a whole and if you’re basing it on the fact that she’s on tv that she does represent all of us you’re looking at it wrong. Oprah’s on tv too, people choose to believe the stereotype.

  • Hello_Kitty81

    I agree with her for saying Nicki’s wigs are a hot Barbie mess, but she needs to lose that Mariah Carey wig of hers!

  • RJA

    I think she has room to talk. Like she says she’s had a “few” bad wig moments, but she is on point more often then not. Nicki though, I’ve NEVER liked ANY of the hair she has came out the house wearing. #TeamTamar

    • diggy.p

      But she’s wearing a blonde wig? Like anyone is foolish enough to think that’s her hair. If they do, their reasoning is beyond me.

      • RJA

        Huh??? Who thinks it’s her hair??

        • diggy.p

          Sorry. That was a random tangent I was having that I thought of while reading your comment. Basically, she has no reason to talk about the next woman.

          • RJA

            Well a bad weave/wig is a bad weave/wig (bad meaning bad). sometimes Tamar wears bad ones, Nicki wears bad ones all the time and Beyonce NEVER has a bad one :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JAI4SRENU2A5WKRTELXXYJPDSI Kayla

    Pot calling kettle black.

  • Emm

    I’m going to say the same thing I say about people who always have an opinion about honey boo boo– there are people in the world who behave like this! Some of y’all act like “sassy, waeve-wearing, net rolling” black women don’t exist, they do. Someone on TV has to represent a few of ‘em.
    If those are the only representations you’re seeing of black women on television you need to expand your base. Because I see educated black women everywhere– from CNN, to CBS, to NBC, to Lifetime. VH1, Style and MTV aren’t the only channels out there.
    TV and the world isn’t always going to put the most articulate in the spotlight, if you don’t like it, change the channel.
    Whew, sorry that is just my pet peeve. I feel like I’m very educated but I’m also aware that we don’t live in a homogenous world!

    • get real

      That Honey boo boo show is a slick insult with that little white girl doing her best black ghetto impressions. The first form of entertainment in America was whites making fun of blacks (google minstrel shows). And this is somewhat of that. We love to say “but whites folks are doing it too” but for every white that’s doing it you have 100 good to do whites that’s not doing it. But that’s all you get from us (or all they want to see from us)

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001496807494 Rhonda Jackson-Duppins

      Emm, you are right on the money honey! I LOVE the fact that this world is colorful and MOST are unique. The issues of the heart, now there is where we have problems. I can ALWAYS dislike someone for whatever reason, but when it all boils down to it there are so many more fingers pointing back at me. That alone is enough to keep in check. Folks want to moan about it all and that is fine because I love a good discussion, but a lot of the moaning comes from the lack of ability to influence and touch others in a positive way. What is also sad is that when people change, others want to still keep them in the same space that they were in. They wouldn’t have a dag-gone thing to talk about if it was not for these flawed people because THEIR lives are whack and no one cares. Bring on the Whack-Weaves and the Beautiful Ones. The spice of life. Variety.

  • DidSheReallyGoThere

    So the coffee pot calls a kettle black? Nothin new. EVERY descendant of Mother Africa who tacks these synthetic materials onto their scalps to turn around and insult another is the same sellout. Malik El-Shabazz (Malcom X) coined this: BLACK SELF-DEGRADATION. How can we as Black Women say a word about racism, when we (literally) go into debt trying to emulate the hair of “their” females? I’m leaving colored contacts and skin bleach alone. Those two topics don’t require elaboration. It’s time to stop scape-goating trivial foolery and address the REAL ISSUE.

    • Gye Nyame

      Love your response!

  • get real

    Blk women please stop letting these folks bait you into these stereotypical discussions. “there’s nothing wrong with her hair” is all she had to say and keep it moving. Yall thinks think is funny just more black women insulting each other on national T.V. about som dam hair. Gosh I wish yall get over this hair bs.

  • Kitsy

    Tamar Braxton is a disgrace! She is a racial caricature who feeds into the meme of the sassy, weave-wearing, neck-rolling, semi-illiterate black woman that the media loves so much.

    I’m no fan of Nikki Minaj but I recognize her look is part of her act. What’s Tamar’s excuse for the way she looks?

    • get real

      Thank you. I saw her on that show and it was cooning at it’s finest. These other people think is funny and not paying attention to the hustle that these white folks slick use to get black women to talk this dumb ish.

    • openyourEyes&EarsBlackWOMEN

      let’s be real the real DISGRACE of BLACK WOMEN is nicki minaj–have you heard her original mixed tapes pre-youngmoney-have you seen her videos- do you read her lyrics–let’s take into account her body (of silicone and “other” God knows what) her whole persona is a degradation to black women the world over–since when ‘barbie’ stood for busting it wide open and shaking your a*s and using sex for profit…nicki is the original ‘cartoon rapper’

      • TRUTH IS

        Both of them are……..

      • redfingerpaint

        So we bash Nicki Minaj for her public persona? She’s not the only or the first black woman that “shakes her a*s and uses sex for profit”!

        I’ve seen her videos and looked at her lyrics, and yes they aren’t the most cleanest things ever. But there are other artists that openly discuss their sex lives. Whether they talk about having a big d*ck, how much sex they have, etc.

    • jj

      Have. A seat hater

  • Trisha_B

    I think Nicki knows her wigs are a hot mess, but it keeps people talking. So i doubt she’ll be hurt by Tamar’s words lol. A lot of the times her wigs be nice cuts, but the color just be wrong lol.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001496807494 Rhonda Jackson-Duppins

      Absolutely! Nicki loves being a character and I think that her self-expression is cool in general. She has guts.

  • Danes

    SHe’s funny. It seems like she’s toned down since the Braxtons 2nd season.

  • TRUTH IS

    Tamar is an atrocity…..they promote lower tier behavior….representing blacks in a negative light…smh

  • Sabrina

    LOL! Gotta love her crazy self. Plus, she ain’t lying!!!