DAMMM...

I just checked CNN - it's true..

R.I.P

Same here thought it was another twitter celeb murder

It's a shame - she was one of the BEST r&b singers with REAL talent...

F*ck you Bobby Brown for messing her up...

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I agree 1000%

R.I.P. Whitney Houston
Your voice lives on.

Crack is wack!!!

Don't get it twisted...Whitney was an addict WAYYY before she met Bobby...

BUT she did have the best voice OF ALL TIME...

Until Jennifer Hudson came along...

*You should know better than comparing Jennifer to Whitney... That's like comparing you who been in a game a for a minute has history/knowledge to a new cat who learned some new scratches and people start giving them props.. *

But that's another discussion..

Right now we are just speculating the cause of her death..

whitney had the best female voice, ever. listen to her early work in the 80s, this was pre-technology. her voice was real.

Let's keep this a tribute thread, gentlemen.

We all know drugs began the down fall, but we will continue to play the classics.

Rest In Peace.

Nope, I knew Jennifer was the NEXT BIG VOICE the 1st time I saw her on American Idol, and had an ABSOLUTE DUCK when she was booted off.

Ask my wife, (who was mad that I was so passionate about another chick...go figure)..

But when Elton John recognized her talent, I KNEW she would be alright...

Jennifer is (or was before she lost all the weight), easily the next Big Voice of "Real Music".

But that's for another discussion...

For me.....she is the standard I measure all female voices against!

I'm mad that Ray J went from KK to Whitney tho...

I heard some "gossip" that he was back w/ Whitney just this week. It'll be interesting to hear all the chatter about that...

If they can't hit the highs in "I Will Always Love You" they're not worthy

Which Whitney records are you guys going to drop tonight?

+1..

Truth..

i clearly remember watching her on Silver Spoons, when she hooked up with Dexter. goodtimes.

Funny enough - they are talking about a tribute to Whitney at the grammy's with Jennifer singing..

RIP

Is it me or does it seem like every other week we lose someone?!? R.I.P. Whitney Houston!

I wanna dance with somebody who loves me. RIP Whitney

Will definitely be playing some Whitney at the next gig

RIP Whitney. We lost another one of the last global icons. Only Madonna and Prince are left.

managed to fit its not right but its ok, i will always love you and Wanna dance with somebody into my set tonight

RIP

See? Chaka Khan is the OTHER Big Voice...

That will be fitting...

RIP :(

THAT was the other way around my dude. Whitney messed BOBBY up.

"You Give Good Love To Me" still my all time favorite Whitney song

R.i.p Whitney Houston
But bobby messed up whitney he got her strung out. He was on drugs when he was in new edition. He has a baby by my homegirl. New edition use to come over her house all the time.

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Cool 2-step remix from 99

I don't know how old you are, but if your naive enough to believe that Bobby Brown got Whitney strung out your crazy. She's older than him and from Newark NJ, this chick ain't the image that Clive Davis wants you to believe. Then again entertainment is all "make believe" you should be old enough to understand that........

Threw in I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Emotional, and topped it off with the ENTIRE 9+ minutes of It's Not RIght But It's OK Thunderpuss remix.

Shame is all I can say, she got smacked by whatever she was doing, when my wife sent me the text while I was spinning I didn't realize she was ONLY 48.

R.I.P.

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Dude, Whitney had COCAINE MONEY, she was skiing WAYYY before her and Bobby got together...

Let's just say, they BOTH had issues before they met, and when they became a combination, well, you know the rest...

Ha ha, I agree with you, BUT just because she's from NEWARK doesn't automatically make her a Bass head...

It just means it WASN'T a walk in the park for her, so her street savyness was UP.

From cnn Chaka is supposed to perform tonight also...

I normally just flip through the grammy's but tonight I'll be tuning in..

Yeah, no disrespect to Newark.......but most people believe WH is from some beautiful make believe land like Smurfville or some Disney Land shit! I liked some of DJ AM's stuff too but he died of drugs, point blank and he alone was accountable for it and paid the ultimate price.

DITTO, this will ultimately go down in history...and I'm so glad that Jennifer is part of this...

Her voice is legendary, and does not get the exposure it should...

I have to agree with that ALSO, BUT to give the Ultimate Benefit of the doubt, they said no drug paraphanalia was present....

However, my COMMON SENSE also recognizes the fact tha Ray J (her boyfriend) made the 911 call, so who knows what may, or may not have been cleaned up in advance...

I'll officially have to hold judgement until they do the autopsy, but I wouldn't be shocked if something was amiss...

First off RIP Whitney

Not true, simply not true. the fact is bobby got her fucked up....back in the early ninetys whitney came out publicly to "shame" him to quit.......who gets who on drugs? the newark girl from a religious family, or the man from roxbury mass, who got booted out of New Edition. (although i think that worked out well for him) do you know of any man who was turned on to drugs by a woman?

My bad thats really not an issue

Does it matter whether he exposed her to it or not? Bottom line is she was a grown woman and used. And I don't give a shit. How many of you have used drugs?

We lost one one of the greatest to ever do it and you guys are only concerned with some shit you will never know the truth about.

Prince is gonna live 4ever! Or so I hope. :)
53 yrs old and doesn't look it. And can tear that stage up like a MUTHA!

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there's and 80% chance that Prince .......................................... is a Vampire LOL!!




but still


RIP whitney , i will always love you have a deep emotional effect on me, my mom love that track so much and play it so much,everytime i hear that song instantly makes me wanna go home to her

You don't know what you're talking about...



You can't be serious...

Let me be clear...Bobby was doing his thing, but on a SMALL SCALE...

Whitney introduced that dude to COCAINE...and it was a WIKKA WRAP...

I know, becuz I had a childhood friend who was an architech. Man, he went to a "POWER" Party thrown by his "RICH" co-workers, and they introduced him to coke.

One snort, and he threw his life away...That mess is NO JOKE.

I'm talking about stealing from family members, friends, and all types of Scare Straight *ish.

Y'all don't know what you're talking about...

gotta agree wit johhny , i have friend, this dude was in his way to stardom as a DJ , killer productions , killer set ....






















then he dated a high class model who introduced her to coke,man he got FUGGED up , bad ! , that stuff is pure evil

*him typo my bad

Man...so I was at Tru Hollywood Thrusday when she sang her last "performance" and I can't lie, something just felt strange about it all.

When she first went up, I was bein silly and said "youuuu betta lay low!!" But she sounded BAD up there, and almost fell over just walking up there...she was leaning tough. I figure she got into it with whoever some reality show girl there was, and they all rushed her out frantically...I was barely able to snap this pic of her as she brushed by me - t.co. She got outside, signed a CD of her debut that a fan had, and left with Ray-J trailing her.

I could just tell that something wasn't right, and I didn't think she was close to death, but I honestly felt like eh, she'll probably never recover voice wise.

+10 to Johnny for working in an Evasions reference

i swear that 2nd pic is Oprah not whitney (even when she was fat)

It is Oprah..

lol. That's hilarious! Houston, we have a problem.

I hope all the Whitney tribute sets that are about to be flying around consist of her original material, not bad remixes/bootlegs. Played a couple of her joints last night. Although not everyone felt it, most did and it always feels right to do something meaningful with our music when we have the chance-
R.I.P.

Yea...I wish she had more upbeat tracks like Chaka Khan, but she was a victim of that late 80's R&B/Pop crossover era. I played "I wanna dance with somebody" at my spot, and the girls definitely sang along LOUUUUD to it. And I played "I'm your baby tonight" as the last song, so my 30+ ladies sang along to it.

Finished with "I will always love you" and had everyone signing the lyrics, even the highs.
Should have recorded them singing.

No doubt Puma!
That's a good call, would have been dope to see a bunch of DJs videos of their crowds belting out Whitney last night.

Man, I BEEN tellin' cats that Jennifer is the next coming....she just did a Whitney tribute...EFFORTLESSLY....

LMAO @ Fantasia beating her on American Idol...

Idiots.

She did it respectfully - without trying blow...

EXACTLY! Nothing over the top...

I love that woman...

No Chaka huh... maybe she was too distraught..

That's what I'm thinking...

crappy performance or not, you're a very lucky person to be able to be there.

Mariah could have easily handled a Whitney Tribute as well.

Yep.

not

A young Mariah maybe.... not on the Jennifer Hudson bandwagon either.

Now if Jill Scott had done it.......... still an underrated singer in my book.

Wow, me & Roger finally agree on something

Johnny, I totally agree with you on everything you say about Jennifer Hudson.

Cool everyone has their opinion. IMO Mariah has more range.

Anyway back on topic. RIP Whitney. You will be missed.

Whitney Houston Died of Prescription Drug, Alcohol Cocktail:

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Yeah I was reading they found Xanax, Lorazepam for anxiety and somthin else i forgot. My wife is a nurse and we were talkin about it. All of those things takin close together with alcohol just contradict the heart. Speedin it up, slowin it down. Her heart probably just couldn't keep up. These celebrities have all this money, power and success and they get that feeling that their invincible. Until they get all strung out on WHATEVER. And it takes over them and the body can't handle it. We are losing to many Icons to this kinda stuff. Fuckin shame man.

I don't care what kinda music your into. You can't help but get goosebumps when she hits some of those notes in her songs. I was really pullin for her comeback. R.I.P.

Addiction is a disease, And for my peeps who lost their battle with this nasty disease you will not be remembered as a junkie who deserved to die you will be a friend who lost a battle with a terrible disease .. Let the lady Rest in Peace and every person who says she was a junkie that had it coming doesn't know how hard it is to win the battle of addiction .. R.I.P. to everyone who lost to addiction ..

RIP Whitney!

Man, we played some of her tracks at our Grammy's after party at Mystudio at the end, shit almost got emotional. This FIIINE girl was singin along hard to "You give good love" and "I have nothing."

I played "I wanna dance with somebody" Saturday, and that intro threw the crowd off for a few seconds until they realized what song it was. And it's wild how girls (especially my crowd LOL) even while drunk can sing her shit on key and loud at the hook.

Rest In Paradise Whitney!

Oh man, they're gonna have the Funeral in Newark, NJ Saturday...

Hmmm - so you did know what you were talking about...

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But, I still think dude had a huge contribution to her downfall..

damn.. that's cold

I told you...

Like I said, some cats on here just be MAKIN' *ISH UP.

Those who know, KNOW...but her initial image is so "Wholesome" that it messes up the fairy tale.

It's all just extremely unfortunate.

The problem is that she maintained a certain level of self destructive behavior, and BOBBY maintained a certain level of self destructive behavior...

Now MIX the two, given the amount of money available, stardom with access to ANYTHING, and a partner that ENABLES you and you enable THEM, those are all of the ingredients to a perfect storm.

Imagine you being RICH, access to people who can and will get you ANYTHING, and MARRYING somone who co-signs the deviant behavior?

Man listen, can't nobody tell two GROWN azz people what to do...they have to want it themselves.

^^^been saying this all along......