Stevie J Reveals All: From Rumors To Love Triangles
Written by Trip // August 20, 2012 // Celeb Reality, Latest News, The 9ine
(CelebNMusic247) VH1?s Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta Stevie J has become the breakout sensation of the series, either you love him or hate him though.
Stevie J has been in the music industry for 17+ years, but thanks to the series he’s become a household name. Even though most people find Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta to be annoying and rather a disrespectful to the black community, Stevie has reivented himself with the high drama series.
Before Stevie’s love triangle with his artist Joseline and baby mama Mimi Faust, he was in a his high profile relationships with Whoopi Goldberg’s daughter and rapper/actress Eve.
Now Stevie is speaking out in a new interview with the JasmineBrand to dicuss how he feel about the media poking fun at his interesting faces and Joseline attacking him during therapy.
Here are some highlights from Stevie J’s interview:
People in the music industry know who you are, but some ppl were introduced to you for the first time, on LHHA. Can you give us a little background on your musical career?
I’ve been in the music industry for almost 17 years. I’ve produced and written for artist like Mariah Carey, Sean ‘P.Diddy’ Combs, Beyonce, Lil Wayne, 112, Notorious BIG, just to name a few.
We’ve seen you sing on the show and have watched you play the piano. What other instruments do you play?
Yes, I play the Piano, Guitar, base guitar, drums, xylophone trumpet saxophone, violin, the list goes on and on, whatever you put in front of me, imma make it happen. I was self-taught, no lessons at all.
I read somewhere that Puffy (Diddy), influenced you.
Absolutely, When I first started music I did some songs with Jodeci and I used to be on tour with them, and to watch the Bad Boy movement from the outside and hen meeting him and seeing what he was doing to cultivate hip hop of course he was a major influence.
Would you ever consider putting out a solo album?
Yes, I definitely would consider it, I’m getting a lot of calls from different labels right now and its something that I wanted to do years ago, but I never really felt that it was my time and divine timing is everything, so the answer is definitely, Yes.
How has your life changed, since Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta started?
I believe its put a light and let the young generation understand me as a producer and as a personality. It brought awareness to the whole industry, not just music but Television industry, food, liquor industry everyone is now familiar and familiarized with Stevie J, which is a great thing, I’m grateful.
Do you feel like how you’ve been portrayed on the show is the real you?
I am who I am, I cant be anything but me what you see is what you get.
Why do you think the show is so popular?
I believe that LHHATL is popular just because of the storyline that I bring to the table. At the end of the day, I’m not sacrificing who I am, and I wanted to bring something to the table that would kind of have an impact on American society, as we know it. That’s not the norm, of what they seeing right now, people bugged out but its really going on everyday in somebody’s life, 95% of the world’s life. I believe its successful due to real life situations and circumstances Joseline and Mimi are involved in.
You’ve had two very high profile relationships. One with Whoopi Goldberg’s daughter Alex. How did you meet Alex?
I met her at dinner with Vivica Fox, and she reached her hand across my ace giving Vivica a hand shake and I checked her for reaching over me and that’s how we met.
I believe that there’s always an overlying lesson when a relationship ends. What did you learn about maybe yourself or relationships, with Alex?
Sometimes your friends are your best friends, and you shouldn’t have so much as a friend, and then we became best friends don’t have a relationship with them. I grew to love her as a best friend, then it became something far out of our control. When you throw the ‘L’ word around then emotions start getting crazy. But I realized that if someone is that special to you and you cherish them as a friend, then, don’t try to make it a relationship.
I read online somewhere that Whoopi had something to do w/ your relationship ending. Is there any truth to that?
I was the best thing to happened to her, so her mother would definitely want to welcome that, as opposed to wanting to end that.
How did you and Eve meet?
I met Eve at a video shoot, we had the same publicist at the time, and they asked me to go to one of her videos so myself and my son, Lil’ Stevie went we met her there. She asked if I was single and I said No, we never exchanged numbers, then I saw her again right after I broke my relationship off, and we began to date thereafter.
If you loved her, what did you love the most about Eve?
Of course, I loved her, I’m not a bad guy like that. I loved the most the fact that we are both creative, and just to see her grow was something I loved. To see her grow from a young lady to a woman. I’m glad that I was apart of that. That’s what I loved about her, just to watch her grow.
What was your least favorite thing about Eve or your relationship with her?
It wasn’t anything negative, it was always good. It would have been good, if I would of kept it good, I’m the one who fucked up, so everything was good on her end.
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