Status Ain’t Hood

Status Ain’t Hood

This past January, when I was spending four hours waiting around at Ghostface’s “Back Like That” video shoot for a chance to interview Ghost, I overheard a conversation between two guys, one of whom may have been Ne-Yo’s manager or something, talking about how Ne-Yo was planning his career. They were discussing how Ne-Yo wanted to become a singer whose music men could feel OK about liking. One of them held up Akon as an example of what not to do, of an artist whose guest-appearances get respect but whose actual music doesn’t.

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