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Thanks Buddha for that it was cool.

I don't see the interview, can someone repost it cuz it's not showin up when i click on this post.

Hrmm yea, Buddha, do you know what happened here?

Did DeVante tell you about the situation with his artists with Da Bassment and how Ginuwine, Timbaland, Magoo and them started being disloyal. Here's a story that's a fact for sure. DeVante's artists from the Bassment Crew were disloyal and that made him go crazy. He and Suge Knight almost put a hit out on Jodeci's manager Robert Reives who was DeVante's high school friend. He came up with the Feenin' video concept as well. He decided to ask 550 Music/Epic Reoords to sign Ginuwine and DeVante thought it was disloyed and DeVante & Suge left messages saying they comin for him and Ginuwine. DeVante jumped Ginuwine while they were on tour and said he heard he wanted to go and where Robert was and Suge hung him over a balcony but Suge let him up. DeVante told Robert he never wanted to see his face again and pistol whipped him that's why he went crazy. It was DeVante's decision to not speak to his former artists from what I know he still hates Timbaland but he and Ginuwine seem to put their differences aside cause Ginuwine said good things and he was touring with K-Ci & JoJo, Dru Hill, & H-Town recently. K-Ci & JoJo are the only ones who was still cool with Timbaland. Timbaland felt DeVante didn't show him nothin plus that Ginuwine album was a DeVante and Darryl Pearson production along with the group Playa Static, Black, & Smokey did some work but Timbaland took the credit instead.

And the reason why everyone left Devante was because they were getting impatient. A lot of them had been with Jodeci since the Diary Of The Mad Band album, and nothing was being released. Then in 94 or so, they had this big tour and all of the Bassment artists got a chance to perform and everyone loved them. That's when labels started taking notice of what Devante had on his Swing Mob imprint. Labels were only interested in certain artists from the camp (Ginuwine, Timbaland, Sugah (Tweet's group) and Playa), but Devante wanted his entire crew to be signed collectively as a group. So of course, that pissed off a lot of people as well.

Jermaine88 Says

Oh okay maybe he dont wanna talk about that then but what he say about the Jodeci deal. Is it gonna still be with Interscope. Why does K-Ci and JoJo keep performing without DeVante and Dalvin,

"I’m going online, but I had to get the money up first to be able to do it, like I’m telling you. Like, Jodeci is stuck in a contract with Interscope. Interscope don’t want to release us because they want all these demands around our contract [??]and we not willing to give up, and all this stuff. Cause they not making money just on album sales no more, they understand that people download, [??]. Because they told me straight to my face when I went to meet with them, this the record label: “You know, we don’t care how hot the album is, we want ya’ll touring money, we want this, that, this that” and back in the day they didn’t have ‘artist merchandising or touring money,’ they call this the 360 deal nowadays. So it’s like, okay, you can have all this touring money, you can have that if you give us some more money. [But] we not going to give it to you for free. So we been in this constant battle. So at the end of the day, now that I have my own money, they can have Jodeci right now, [but] I’m getting ready to release some DeVante shit on the side. Excuse my French, but I’m getting ready to release some DeVante stuff on the side. And…you know, if they want to come on up to the party, they can, but other than that, you know, Jodeci is there. We talk everyday. We’re not mad at each other, we fine. So it’s like, you know, they my brothers. It’s two separate brothers, so if two of us is getting along, the other two is. So it’s always been like that. You know Jodeci ain’t got no problem. We’re going to do a show probably a month from now, a big show. So we’ve always been doing shows and going on tours. In London…like last two years, like, this year, actually, we did London. A couple of years ago we did something. So we go on tour together, we just ain’t gone do this business if we ain’t making no money. We might as well work at a regular store."