LeToya & Ludacris on the set of ‘Regret’ / Plus Matthew Knowles continues his personal vendetta against LeToya!
Here are some new snaps of LeToya and Ludacris on the set of their new video “Regret”, which is the third single from LeToya’s new album Lady Love.
LeToya looks amazing and I can’t wait to see the video. Capitol weren’t even going to shoot a clip in the first place, but the song has done so well with zero promotion by reaching #11 on the R&B chart and #96 on the Hot 100 that the label basically had no choice.
I also have some more juicy gossip/rumours about LeToya’s continued fued with Matthew Knowles, but you’ll have to check under the cut for that because it’s a long story!
Remember when I started that drama about Mathew trying to get LeToya off of the BET awards, and I said that he had been paying off promoters to cancel her performances and radio to boycott her songs?
Well basically I got that juice from an e-mail from somebody claiming to work at Mathews Music World Entertainment. Now I get these types of e-mails quite a bit and most of them head straight for the trash can, but since that one actually sounded plausible I did some investigating and all signs pointed to it being true. I checked with someone who works with LeToya who I often speak to, my friend who’s sister was working at BET, and a MAJOR urban blogger whom I won’t name but they have proven to be very credible in the past. After all three of those people confirmed it to me I felt like it was probably true, especially when a lot of major outlets started printing it and hinting that they’d heard about this going on before, and then LeToya refused to flat out deny it during interviews.
Anyways, I just received another e-mail from the same person who insists that this shady business is still going on, and it all stems from Matthews personal vendetta against LeToya after she won a lawsuit against him. Here are some excerpts from the email.
I am just pissed off with this shady business and I’ve been closer to God lately so I feel I have to throw this out there. I’m going to give you a little more of my experience. So…. Mathew is in a perpetual fight. I don’t understand what he’s trying to prove but I guess that’s what keeps his life exciting. You think he would have moved on by now but on the contrary, he’s totally obsessed with this Letoya Luckett girl. Wasting time making sure radio stations don’t play her songs, and particularly right now making sure “Regret” doesn’t get any bigger than it already is.
I absolutely don’t understand why he thinks her success would overshadow Beyonce’s. Beyonce is aware of what’s going on but she’s not saying anything to stop her dad. I told her to say something but she said to me “I trust my dad”. Anyway, look at the Urban radio charts, Letoya is #5. That’s a pretty good number but you can notice that the most important radio stations aren’t playing it. Thanks to who? You guessed it right. Rumors you’ve probably heard before are true. Mathew is paying these stations off to boycott her. These expenses are covered up as a trip to go see Beyonce’s tour for review. What’s nice is that these stations’ music directors can pick two to three dates anywhere in the world and travel for free. Mathew of course pays for travel expenses as well as $850 “courtesy checks” for…. meals.
The funny part is some of them just get the free vacation and don’t bother showing up at Beyonce’s concert. _____ was not hard to convince thanks to their ties with Jay-Z. It was a little harder to convince _____ and _____ (asking for bigger courtesy checks) but in the end they accepted the offer. Thumbs up go to KMEL who almost spit at my face and refused to collaborate.
I’m putting this to light because I’m tired of this payola bullshit. You might find all of this outrageous but these are common practices in the music industry… and this is only the tip of the iceberg.
So there you have it. I’ll probably get a letter from MWE for this, so keep in mind that this is all speculation and to treat it as a rumour.
Personally it wouldn’t surprise me, especially considering things I’ve heard about Matthew which I wouldn’t dare print on my blog.
Tags: Beyonce, LeToya, Ludacris, Matthew Knowles
ugh who cares! letoya is moving on and her single is doing well and thats all that matters.The music!
idgaf about matthew the snake and the continuous rumors.Moving along…
i really hope bey fires his fat ugly disgusting ass
m.knowles is the true def of a hataaa
of a of a hataaa of a of a hataaa
So you think it’s ok for him to do this to her?
FUCK ALL THE SHADY KNOWLES!!! the all should get lost in the Bermuda triangle!!! Poor letoya” her album is amazing too! I love “Take away love” Ryan Leslie put his foot in that beat!
One day the knowles will really be exposed!!!
I believe it, just look at what he did to the ex members of DC. Everyone knows he’s a snake in the grass. Beyonce wouldn’t be shit without payola. And shame on her for not saying shit and sticking up to her dad. She is just as evil as he is for allowing all of this to happen over the years. I hope Karma gets then both.
[...] I hope this isn’t true. She has a few bangers on that album. Edited to say: According to the Prophet, Matthew Knowles is still up to shady business when it comes to LeToya and is doing the best he can [...]
this is funny to me first the email says im getting closer to god but then she goes ahead and gossips lol
any who mathew knowles is so damn desperate and it annoys me, why is he doing this to letoya, hes gonna burn in hell
he hurts other ppls careers at the expense of what, what does beyonce gain, writing credits?
what you do in the dark always comes out in the light and when you spit in the wind, it blows back in your face:
He will get his if this is true ie paternity lawsuit- i’ll lmao if that baby is his!
My biggest anger is not with mattew but with Beyonce. So this means if anybody has potential to overshadow the queen B matthew would try to destroy them? So this is how beyonce got to the top huh?Totally not respectable because beyonce OBVIOUSLY knows it’s going on.
Matthew if you reading this…FUCK YOU AND YOUR RETARDED DAUGHTER!!! I’LL KICK YOUR ASS IF I COULD!!! YOU CANT DO SHIT TO ME!!!
What goes around comes around” Beyonce will get hers!!! Watch!!!
Do i think its okay? Hell no! But if leToya isnt complaining and letting him do this to her, then i could care less!. This is her career. Letoya is sitting back while he tries to fuck it up.Everyone wants to blame matthew but LeToya, not someone from BET, not someone from her camp BUT LETOYA needs to stand up and say something!
LeToya can’t say anything! If she does she’ll be abused and called bitter, and the public will ridicule her.
She didn’t even start the BET drama rumour before, yet when you went on blogs and read the comments it was pages of abuse of people saying she was attacking beyonce for promotion etc.
She’s in a really touch position.
How are you going to preach about being a strong woman but letting someone that you have no contract with fuck with your money and your dream? INSANE! Matthew controls Beyonce like a little puppet and LeToya is letting him do the same with her, whether she likes it or not!
She’s a very positive person though so she tries to keep a good attitude and ignore it, and then handle what she can behind the scenes.
If this continues though and is in fact true then she may be forced to speak out.
Lady Gaga Better watch her back!!! Her looney ass already fell for the “Lets do a collabo trick” Matthew is going to take her down with all his might! She’s the only one who can give beyonce a run for her money on stage” even though she’s coocoo” Remember how they used poor Shakira?
He can’t pull that shady mess with Rihanna cause L.A reid will fuck his shit up bout his.
Oh please we all know the ones who were saying those things were Beystans! I couldnt be Letoya right now, my mouth is too big lol
LOL gaga will be fine! Unlike the situation with Shakira, Gaga has MORE to gain from the collabos with Bey.
Sha I totally agree with you but, if Letoya says anything people (the B worshipers) are going to say; “Letoya is saying these things to sell more records.” Or “Letoya is hating on Beyonce because her career went south.” No matter what Letoya says or does she is always going to be looked at as the bad person using Destiny’s Child to make her way to the top!
As for Matthew what does he have to gain, I mean really! If he is doing this old to needs to fix his marriage (if there’s anything left to fix) and take care of his lovechild that should be coming here soon!
Why are we surprise that Beyonce does not say a word? Home girl does not know how to handle confrontation. Out of all the things that has come before her in her career, the only thing she handle was Taylor Swift and Kanye mess!
Hope you understand that!
[...] into her project. According to a source at Matthew’s Music World Entertainment that hit up the Prophet, Matthew Knowles is still up to shady business when it comes to LeToya and is doing the best he can [...]
I think I would like Beyonce more if her dad werent so involved with her. He’s made it so she doesn’t have to think for herself. Just look pretty, sing and throw her pussy around on stage.
And the only reason Beyonce is doing a collab with Lady Gaga is because Gaga is damn near about to take some of her shine an Matthew wont allow that.
Letoya is finally doing well and I hope she continues to do so.
@Ebony,
Exactly! LeToya will catch all types of hell from Beyonce’s “stans” and people will call her out for acting like she’s jealous of Beyonce’s career, or that she’s using Destiny’s Child as a crutch to further her career.
Inn’t funny that in interviews, LeToya, Kelly, and michelle constant get asked about Beyonce and Destiny’s Child before their own personal business by interviewers, but when it comes to Beyonce, interviewers don’t say sh*t about DC’s past. Not that there’s nothing wrong with it, but it keeps LeToya in this perpetual circle of this DC QA where she has to be PC about the group, when it’s more than likely that she can care less about a Destiny’s Child “reunion” or a “new album.”
As far as Papa Joe 2.0, he’s been trying to sabotage her career 3 years ago when she began to become more relevant. He’s so hellbent on making sure that no other DC chick gets shine. God knows that there’s not a chance in hell they will have a career with the same magnitude as Beyonce, why not let them enjoy the success they can have? Personally, I’m sick of (knowing that it’s true, whether you want to call it a rumor or not, there’s some truth in every rumor) the fuckery he’s been pulling with throwing shade towards the DC chicks and overexposing his daughter.
I still with LeToya the best though. She still needs to leave EMI. Speaking of which, what’s up (the rumor that) Kelly inking a deal with EMI still? She does know what happened to the aforementioned “victim.”
YAWN @ Beyonce conspiracies.
I cannot wait for this video. I don’t think I’ve been psyched for so many videos at once. This one, Russian Roulette, Video Phone, Telephone, and 3.
ROTFLMAO
Now that snake doesn’t run a damn thing. But his stinking mouth. And with all that venom coming from his wicked ass, it will come an bite him right in his hateful ass. To the one up top Letoya is going to be bigger than Beyawnce coohie poopin ass anyway. She already is. Just wait she has alot of blessings coming forth, and you all will see. I am so proud of Letoya because she is so beautiful. Just look at her she represents for all women with elegance and grace. Regret is that song I bought the album and the song on itunes. Best album of 2009.
Pimp Daddy just don’t want to stop huh. Wow KARMA!!!!! is going to be a BITCH when it comes for the Knowles.
[...] father, Mathew Knowles doesn’t want this video to see the light of day. According to The Prophet Blog, Mathew Knowles has a personal vendetta against Letoya and is doing all he can to block her [...]
regret>>>>video phone
Yeah its really really sad and unfortunate becuase LeToya’s the one in the sticky situation. I just wish ONE interviewer would know his shit and just ask Beyonce about it…would MAKE MY DAY! see how she reacts! then maybe something would happen and blow up. its gotta come from a 3rd Party it looks like…INTERVIEWERS/HOSTS ARE YOU LISTENING??
“Regret” obviously can do really well and is proving against the odds. she shouldn’t have to settle for doing okay when she can do sooo much better! GO LETOYA! KEEP SUPPORTING GUYS! BUY OFF ITUNES/AMAZONMP3!
Matthew is a Motherfucker!
WHY MATHHEW!!! WHY!!! WHAT’S HIS MOTHERFUCKIN PROBLEM! BEYONCE IS SO STUPID FOR NOT TELLING HER DAD TO FUCK OFF
[...] The Prophet Blog found out that Mathew Knowles was paying off radio stations so they don’t play LeToya’s song “Regret”. [...]
Oh Prophet.. juicy! spill it! I will happily put it on my blog for you.. .Mathew can’t touch me… can’t sue me either….
I don’t doubt that email at all.
As for LaToya i would have thought by now she’d have made a big stink and left the label the way Janet left hers and even Mariah did.
Now its rumored Kelly Rowland is using EMI but thankfully that’s just for distribution apparently not the main label…
Yeah. LeToya has played this situation in the best way she knows how.
Something I can tell you is that there are people in her camp investigating all of this to try and find out who is helping Matthew and they are trying to put a stop to it.
This isn’t the only stunts that Matthew has pulled, he does so much shady stuff outside of LeToya and people are trying to have it stopped.
With LeToya it’s a personal thing because she sued him and won TWICE I think, then he tried to make her debut album tank but it still went platinum and #1 off the strength of one single.
Obviously he knows they will never be as big as Bey, but he does this mess for other reasons, especially when it shows that the other girls are just as talented as Bey
Look what Necole Bitchie just wrote in the comments of her blog.
@Mee I don’t know about the latest rumor on Matthew Knowles however the details and what I know about what was going on when I worked in radio, it sounds credible. Payola was definitely going on with PD’s and MD’s taking trips etc for playing or not playing records etc. Also, the rumor that the prophet blog had about matthew threatening to pull Beyonce if letoya performed at the bet awards was told to me as well from a Very credible industry connect that’s associated with another huge artist. They were pissed off about it and told me to put it out there but by the time i got home to blog it it was already out lol. I’m guessing He is still very salty about that case that Toya and Tavia won against them a few years back.
Now ya’ll know I love me some Beyonce but Another thing I was told about Matthew is that if you want to work with Bey, you have to hand most of your publishing over to Beyonce. (that’s why it says she is the writer of all of her songs). Not only that but a producer of one of her past #1 records (I will not say any names) wanted to work with her bad but in exchange he had to let Solange write the record so she’d have writing credits on it. Matthew do not be playing games..
If people are sick of Mathews actions — they should boycott Beyonce altogether. She’s talented and pretty — BUT SO ARE THE OTHER WOMEN.
I’m not gonna doubt that Beyonce’s talented. Nope. But am I sick of her? Yup!
Beyonce NOT speaking up is all the more reason why people should quit standing behind her.
It’s so unfortunate, but unless she fires her father –NO ONE is gonna trust her. Period.
PS. I can’t wait for Letoyas video. She’s is talented and deserves her time to shine too. I bought her first album…. And Ill support this one too.
Gonna Rep for KMEL the people’s station. The Bay Area’s number 1 for Hip Hop and R&B. They are quick to play what the folks in the Bay want to hear despite what’s popular. They been playing regret before her album came out. I’m glad they never gave in. It sucks money drives the world.. but it does. Money and those devil worshippers. Don’t be fooled.
LeToya is my fave.
And yeah Bey is pretty, amazing voice, everything, but it’s the fakeness and fraud that turns people off. Fake people and casual music fans love her but realists usually see right through her like she’s bathing in windex!
Bey would be amazing if she “emancipated” herself from her father and took control of her career, like how Janet did with her “control” album. There’s been so many lies though that if it ever happened you’d just think it was another publicity stunt.
Yeah Real Talk. I didn’t name the other stations because they were really big and I didn’t wanna get a slander suit or something for naming big stations accepting payola!
[...] OMG The Prophet and Necole Bitchie are reporting that Mathew Knowles is paying major radio stations to boycott LeToya. I KNEW something was going on right there. It was so weird that Hot 97, the biggest Hip Hop and R&B radio in the country (home of Angie Martinez) would completely ignore the hit “Regret” (which is currently the #5 most played song in the country on urban radios) and act like it doesn’t exist. I am so not surprised as they never ever played her and now we know why! I know a lot of people who’ve been requesting the hell outta this song to them and they been acting deaf. This is really crazy! These guys ain’t right. I blame Mathew for doing what he’s doing but I blame them even more for accepting this money/trip or whatever. [...]
If this is true then Beyonce is a sorry ass puppet with a wig on! And a poor excuse for a singer, and a WOMAN. How dare the Knowles’ do this, if you check ascap.com’s archives you’ll see that EVERY song by Destiny’s Child/Beyonce has writing credits given to Bey. That is fucking impossible, honestly. You mean to tell me that bird-brain WROTE every single song she’s ever recorded? I find that shit hard to believe, especially when we have people like Ne-Yo who say they wrote for her, not the other way around.
To be number one, you work and earn it the right way. You don’t pay off radio stations to stave off the competition. There’s a word for that: CHEATING.
It’s low. And from now on I am doing what ya’ll should be doing. Boycott Beyonce Knowles! Do not buy her music and do not support her at radio. Wanna send that family a message? Hurt their money and they will learn. We as the consumer have the power to keep her a star…if we don’t want her, she WILL fade away just like many other fallen pop stars from years ago already have.
There will always be new faves waitin for us to fall in love with them, and their music. Beyonce, her family, and their shady business simply do not deserve our money!!!!
Boycott, and be free.
I agree Phil. I’ll never buy something of hers legally again.
She’s so talented yet she still allowed her daddy to cheat her to the top.
idk man the hoodrats arent gonna boycott beyonces music hell most of them dont even have computers and there are millions of them,
i always knew she was fake i never liked her during the dc days either, its a shame cuz shes talented, i will always pick britney over bey cuz brit isnt fake and she worked hard for her accolades in the begining of her career
@divatude
lol @ hoodrats aren’t gonna boycott her.
Beyonce has built up a legion (I mean millions) of stans, that’ll support her in ANYTHING that she does, regardless of what kind of n*ggatry she or the Krispy Kreme Kreole Klan pulls.
Every star, however, has their time, not matter how huge they are, they have their era of relevancy. Beyonce had his decade on lock, but now it is closing out (on to the ’10s) and people will be looking for the next “icon.” I hope throwing dollars @ everyone in order to stifle others’ careers just uplift Bee’s was well worth it for grand master pimp when his daughter’s days become numbered.
EVEN IF ALL OF THIS IS TRUE IT DOES NOT STOP THE LETOYA FANS FROM BUYING HER ALBUM IN STORES OR ON ITUNES…I DONT THINK MATTHEW WOULD WASTE HIS MONEY ON SOMETHING THAT WAS GOING TO FLOP ANYWAY…IT WOULDNT MAKE SENSE.
SHE HAD VERY LITTLE PROMOTION AND THESE DAYS U NEED MORE THAN AIR PLAY…IT WOULD HAVE HELPED BUT APPARENTLY NOT THAT MUCH..WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE SOLD 50K INSTEAD OF 35K FIRST WEEK.ITS STILL A FLOP
I BROUGHT THE CD BUT I STILL KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO FLOP…A BLIND MAN COULD SEE THAT…I LOVE LETOYA BUT IT JUST WASNT MEANT THIS TIME AROUND.
AND GET THIS…AT THE END OF THE DAY ALL THE NOISE YALL MAKE AINT GONE MEAN A DAMN THING…BEYONCE WONT STOP WHAT SHE IS DOING…MATTHEW WONT STOP WHAT HE IS DOING AND TOYA WONT STOP WHAT SHE IS DOING.
DO YALL ACTUALLY THINK ITS GOING TO HURT
BEYONCE IF U NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM HER
AGAIN….LOL…SERIOUSLY…SHE GOT MONEY ON
TOP OF MONEY ON TOP OF SOME MORE
MONEY..IT WONT HURT HER POCKETS AT
ALL….YALL SAY IT LIKE IT WILL MEAN
SOMETHING OR HURT HER CAREER…..THE MOST
U R DOING BY NOT BUYING ANYTHING OF HERS
IS SAVING YO LIL DOLLARS THAT U DO HAVE….
YALL R TOO FUNNY
These bloggers can’t bash this horrible practice. If you don’t report it, you’re letting it continue therefore supporting it. Instead of anonymous sources and mentions here and there, name names and go to the appropriate authorities. If they’re too scared/can’t be bothered to that, why tell us anything at all? You just make people mad, and leave us feeling helpless.
well this man is a horrible person, he fucked…up kelly michelle and toya, and thats of the ones we know…
kelly is talented and is seeing great sucess outside the states, as of toya…she is a genuinly talented kind hearted girl…
im from houston i support all my fellow houstonians but this is on some bullshit, what pimp daddy doing.
hell i heard they got stuck for a whole hour in an elevator when tryen to shoot this video, could it have had something to do with his bitch ass…who knows…mean while beyonce pop ya coochie into the hearts of ya worshipers…lol
i rather stan rihanna than beyonce any damn day!
To elektric:
Beyonce can have all the money in the world, but what good does it do is she doesn’t have her soul???…..Don’t worry, I’ll wait…….
The industry is ridiculously insane. You never know what goes on behind all the glamour, but you’d be surprised out of this world
All the best to LeToya…she’s needs a suit of armor to go for hers..
Matthew is a fucking bastard
Lmfao @ Krispy Kreme Kreole Klan!
Well personally, if this is true, then the truth will definately come to light…..but it definately makes you wonder why those few “top” stations that adore any and everything Beyonce are the only stations who have yet to spin the track. It ain’t like there aren’t a million and 1 request for the song, cause there are. And those top stations are the leaders in audience impressions, so they know that their input on playing the song is a big deal.
Things that make you go hmmmm..
Krispy Kreme Kreole Klan! I choke on my damn soda!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL,
If Matthew is as “bible aware” as he and his fake Christian family think they are then he knows The good book says “you reap what you sow” so it’s just a matter of time b4 he gets what he deserves…I hope cameras are there when it all goes down..I cannot wait to see the wicked fall!!!!
Toya looks BEAUTIFUL!!
My grandmother always said “What’s done in the dark, comes to the light” and I believe it 100%. Karma is a real bitch, and she has no remorse. I hold Matthew responsible, but you have to hold Bey accountable as well. She is very aware of what’s going on. She wants to be number 1 and will do whatever it takes to get to the top. It’s a real shame the lenghts bitches will go through when they feel threatend! oh well, Bey and Matthew need to remember “you reap what you sow”.
Toya is doing what a good woman does. She is minding her manners. Because the Knowles/Carter clan will get theirs in the end.
Steal a little they call your a thief, steal a lot they call you King. (in this case queen).
I hate matthew, always have when they were cheating toya out of that money in dc a long time ago, remember she won those two lawsuits against him where he settled, somebody is going to hurt that man I mean mouse, u can’t go around with messing with peoples money u just can’t, and B, something not right with her as well she needs a new voice, have u ever heard her speak,lol GO TOYA!
so she claims to work closely with him ?
lol im gonna start emailing people claiming something and see how far i can go