I used to ride for K Michelle. Really, I did. I wrote an entire open letter about how much I wanted her to win. I thought she was hilarious and talented. But I also thought that her attitude needed adjusting.
I was happy to hear that she planned to work on her self, put more time and attention into her career and had even decided to leave Atlanta.
I rooted for her. But as I watched K Michelle continue to argue and sometimes get physical with her cast mates, continue to beef with fellow celebrities on Twitter, and fall out with former friends, I realized that maybe it wasn’t everyone else who presented a problem. It was K Michelle and perhaps homegirl was just never gon’ change.
I thought, perhaps she’s just not my cup of tea.
It wasn’t until Lil Kim’s Breakfast Club interview, that I started to consider that perhaps it was deeper than that.
During the interview, Lil Kim addresses the beef between these two. According to K Michelle they were former friends and Kim had even asked her to be her daughter’s godmother. But when Kim sat down with The Breakfast Club she said that couldn’t have been further from the truth.
She claims she had only seen K Michelle in person once and had talked to her on the phone. Lil Kim was stretching things a bit. K Michelle did make an appearance at her baby shower. But in all fairness, it was filmed for tv, so maybe that’s why she invited the reality tv star. Still, the point remains, they weren’t nearly close enough for K Michelle to be that baby’s godmother.
She had to have been just straight lying.
And it wouldn’t have been the first time. You may remember that K Michelle and Elle Varner seemed to form a seemingly odd friendship.
But all of that fizzled when K Michelle claimed that Elle Varner stole one of her songs…”Cold Case” to be exact. She even went so far to say that Elle stole her steez, the yodeling and everything.
Basically, K Michelle waited until Elle Varner wrote a song about heartbreak and claimed it was hers.
Elle, who does this singer-songwriter thing–does it so much that she was nominated for a Grammy, vehemently denied the claim, saying K Michelle took things too far.
And I’m inclined to believe her. Just because, at this point Elle Varner is far more credible. But if you’re looking for a more sound argument, if K Michelle really did write the song, she should take Elle to court. But she won’t because she didn’t, plain and simple.
Now, here’s K Michelle, carefully and consistently alluding to sleeping with actor Idris Elba.
Two words: I’m sleep.
At first, when we learned that he was directing her musical, it seemed a little odd, similar to her friendship with Elle Varner. But Idris has a bit of a hood side to him, so perhaps this is what led him to K Michelle.
After this collaboration, all of a sudden K Michelle was talking about being the side chick to a man who recently had a baby. A man who was living in another country.
When Necole Bitchie asked her about it, flat out if she was referring to Idris, she said “you got me.”
Gurl… stawp.
My coworkers swore up and down that the two had a thang going on. But I highly, highly doubt that. Sincerely so. The chick has a history of meeting and befriending other celebrities only to throw them under the bus later. Since Idris is far too beloved for us to believe any foolishness about him, she said she slept with him, presumably to keep us talking about her.
And it’s working. But I’m calling b.s.
Specifically after this “Maybe I Should Call” video, with a poor excuse for an Idris Elba look-alike, his baby mama and even their newborn baby.
The girl literally has a lyric that says “Long distance in the way of what could be/ even when you’re here, you’re not with me/she’s having the child I should’ve carried/I’ll be damned if y’all get married”
The child you should have carried?!?
Come on K. You’re going to come at Idris for allegedly cheating on the mother of his child, flat out disrespect said mother and then even the chid himself. “Damn, I can’t compete with a baby.”
No you can’t compete with a baby and yes, you are ridiculous.
It’s a shame the song goes so hard, like it really does. But this messy video, distracts from all of that. She literally dials a UK area code at the end.
And that’s my problem with K Michelle. It’s been my problem with her. All of this extraness. All of this messiness completely overrides her talent. And that’s a sad commentary.
Let’s suspend reality for a minute and pretend that she did indeed sleep with Idris, I would completely understand her writing about the fall of that relationship. Inspiration can come from anywhere, especially heartbreak.
But why all these clues? All the sly responses, phony tears, and again, this monstrosity of a video? If you and Idris did indeed have a fling, you did so with the knowledge that he was involved, with a baby on the way. Why are you mad now?
You would think that if she did indeed love and have all the respect she claims to have for Idris, she would keep this salacious affair on the hush. But perhaps K Michelle is trying to have her Confessions moment. Plus, it’s just not her style to keep personal matters private. When you can publicly beef with every female artist under the sun and sleep with Black women’s collective crush and get people to talk and write essays about you, then why stop now?
I just wish Idris would come and shut all of this down because it’s getting out of hand.
