Have you ever read something about what someone has done that was just so utterly unbelievable, it made you wanna just throw your hands up in frustration and exclaim to anyone within earshot and yell out, 'This niggah, here!' Well, that's what I did while reading about the arrest of Chico De Barge on TMZ.com's website. I absolutely could not believe the fonts that sat in front of my eye as I read Lightskin's bout of what had to be a case of temporary insanity.
According to TMZ.com, Chico, real name Jonathan Arthur was jailed about a week ago for allegedly having illegal drugs and cash in his car. Police reports indicate that the on August 30, 2007, the 41 year old and a female companion were driving a Toyota Camry on a Los Angeles highway when an officer observed them stop in a turn lane and switch seats. When they were pulled over by California Highway Patrol, cops say "illegal drugs and cash" were found in the car. Chico, who once recorded a song called "Soopaman Lover," is being held on $30,000 bail.
Police arrested Chico's older brother El DeBarge for outstanding warrants on August 26 -- just four days before his brother! As of today, he's still in el slammer.
I mean really! Come on, now! I'm truly not understanding the stupidity that has enveloped itself around the De Barge family lately. First, El hits the bricks on a domestic violence charge that was eventually dropped, but hell, he's still in jail on several other charges. NOW, his baby brother, Chico has joined him in the slammer. Although Chico is no newbie to the the clank-clanker, I thought at least he'd learned his lesson after doing his last bid on drug charges over 10 years ago. Well, stupid is as stupid does because now his stupid ass is in jail again for doing the same stupid ass sh!t that landed him in jail in the first place.
Not that long ago, Kim Porter, longtime girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, triumphantly declared in the pages of this magazine that the love she shared with Combs was something the rest of us could never understand. “I know him like I know my kids,” she said. “He’s gentle, giving and sensitive, especially to me.” What Porter didn’t know was that while she waxed enthusiastically about their union, her on-again off-again boyfriend of 12 years—the man whose twin baby girls she was carrying—was keeping a secret from her that would rock her to the core. If you speak to Porter about it now, the first thing she’ll tell you is that the secret was not the main reason she left the relationship this past July. But later, after hours of conversation, Porter concedes that Combs’s betrayal led directly to an unraveling of trust and faith. From there, she says, it was just a matter of time before things came completely undone.
The next owner of the home will be stepping in to quite a musical lineage. Usher originally bought the property from DefJam CEO Antonio “LA” Reid, who once operated his LaFace Records label from the home, with artists including Jermaine Dupri, Dallas Austin and TLC using the studio. The house was also on MTV's Cribs and once inspired the 13-year-old Usher to declare he would one day live there, Reid told the Journal-Constitution.
