2003: Nippy News Release Articles

Excerpts from Sister 2 Sister Magazine
submitted by: Terrence
source: Sister 2 Sister magazine
Date: October 10, 2003

The following are separate Whitney-related excerpts included in the November 2003 issue of Sister 2 Sister magazine:

Georgia On My Mind by Jamie Foster Brown

...Next, we went over to Whitney Houston’s birthday party at Taboo night club. The party was advertised over the radio, so people didn’t think that Whitney would show up to such a public event, but she did, along with Bobby’s sister, Lele. It was Lele’s birthday, too. This was during the time the police were looking for Bobby because he had failed to do his community service based on a drunk driving charge he received from years back. So Bobby didn’t show up for the party. Dionne Warwick came, but had to leave before Whitney got there. Comedienne Sommore was there. Faith and her hubby Todd were there, too.

The security for Whitney was acting like a##holes, as security usually does. Whitney and I hugged, but she was whisked away into a hot corner where folks descended on her like hungry jackals. It looked like they were sucking up all the air around her.

At the time, press was reporting that Whitney was pregnant. She didn’t look pregnant. She looked good and was very gracious. Some acts were there singing to her, but after an hour and a half or so, she said she missed her hubby and went home. We stayed and partied a bit with Lele and Bobby’s other sister, Coop B, and her good looking hubby.

Interview With Monica

...Niki: Have you spoken to Whitney Houston? I know that you're really close to her too, right?

Monica: Yeah, I haven't spoken to her lately because she had gone to Israel the last time I reached out to her. Then I missed "Divas." I was still working on some stuff for my album. But she lives in Atlanta. So it's kind of easier to connect when I'm at home. We don't have to talk everyday though to know if anything was to go on, that'd probably be the first face that I see.

Interview with Ron Isley

...Jamie: Now, Kelly Price was upset during that time. She was talking to me about that. You were booking her for dates that she didn't know she was going on, or something like that.

Ron: No, you know what happened? It was like, after she had the success, everybody would call in for her to do stuff on their record. You can't sing on everybody's record. And the ones you sing on, you need to get paid. She was just excited over "Oh, they want me to do this over here" and "Oh somebody called me over here." So the one that I really put my foot down on is when Whitney Houston and Clive Davis [former president of Arista] called her and Clive was using her like she was on his label, and she wanted her to sing on the "Hotel" record. I said to myself, "If he wants her, he's gon' have to deal with us like you do at other companies. Give us something like on her next record; let Whitney sing on her record and let's get that in writing." Before I could get anything in writing, [Kelly] was like, "I'm doing this, I don't care what!" You know, he gon' give her $15,000 and that was it? That's all she got 'cause that's how fast she was moving. I don't know what they paid Faith to do it.

Jamie: I know they sometimes pay 50 to 60 thousand dollars for those one-time things.

Ron: Sure they do. That would have been in the blinking of an eye. But you've got this new girl and all of a sudden Clive Davis called her husband and Whitney Houston is a big hero to her. And it's no fault of Whitney's. They just wanted her to do something together and somebody said here's $15,000 and she grabbed it and went against everybody. Then when I tried to stop it and told Clive and his company they had no right to do that without getting the permission of the record company, then all of a sudden I was messing her career up.

Jamie: Well, she's kind of changed now.

Ron: Oh, she's changed a lot, yeah. We're friends and I'm the one that loves Kelly. I'm the one that believes in her.