Say It Aint So, Ne-Yo

Okay, so here's the scoop...RUMOR has it that R&B's latest golden boy, Ne-Yo, is playing on the same team (is that how it goes? aw hell, he came out the closet). Now, let me re-iterate that this is a rumor, but, personally I don't need any further confirmation further than a statement that starts off with "I Heard...". I mean, really. The thing I'm waiting for is for Usher to join the ban wagon and hurry up bring those sequinced Paper Denim jeans he was rockin' back in '01 back. Y'all know that wasn't gentlemen attire at all. But back to the man of moment, here's an ariticle that "supports" the recent claims. Prepare to be shocked...



"The newly famed singer/songwriter has come out of the closet and announced that he is gay. The multi-platinum recording artist sat down for the October issue of Essence Magazine last week and announced the shocking news stating, "Yes, I am in fact gay, and I have always been." After several internet rumors have been circulating around the internet. He also said, "You know this world we live in is full of judgement, resulting in one of the reasons why it took me solong to come out." Earlier this month, a man by the name of Derrick Johnson claimed that he had an intimate relationship with the singer during there teen years in high school. He also said that for months the singer and Def Jam has been trying to pay him to keep quiet over the ordeal. Ne-yo responds saying, that the relationship did occur and he is no longer ashamed of saying that he was deeply in love. Reciting "That situation was what inspired me to write the song "Unfaithful". But no one knew it was actually about myself, and our relationship." He told Essence that he doesn't care anymore, he was tired of living a lie and is ready to come clean. Quoting, "the music industry can eitherexcept me for who I am, or desert me."
The full interview with the magazine is expected to hit stands mid-October.
Barbra Stradoff, Essence Magazine

Amazing...I NEVER expected it, not in a million years. LOL