When I wrote this article, I had little to no idea how big of a hit it would be on the internet.  It was picked up by several websites and blogs around the country and readers could not find a way to ever express their feelings in just the comment section.  A lot of readers judge women in the Urban Modeling industry, they say they’re uneducated or degrading all women.  But, do you know what the biggest criticism is?  They say there’s no future in the industry; that these women will be pointless and have nothing to hold onto once their looks fail them.

Do you seriously think that these video vixens seriously think they are going to be doing music videos forever?!  Do you even think they want to be doing music videos forever?  No, that’s just dumb, it makes little to no sense.  They know that they will not be young and beautiful forever and they need to find a way to capitalize off the assets now, so they can sit on their a$$ later.  Let me first start off by saying, that similar to any profession, most will fail.  Most women that we see in music videos will move onto to other careers and never fully leverage the video vixen experience into much wealth.

But some of them will end up very wealthy… I know that burns to hear, but it’s the truth.

Jennifer Lopez, Lisa Raye, and Elise Neal, (yes, Elise Neal from The Hughleys), they all started out doing music videos.  And look at them now, they’ve made pretty good careers for themselves.  Probably the most successful of the three is Jennifer Lopez, we all know she was a Fly Girl, but she leveraged her music video experience as well as the experience as a Fly Girl into a movie and music career.

Let me tell you something about Lopez, Raye and Neal, when you look at their story, they hustled.  They hustled! I’m not the only one who notices that many of the models that we follow on twitter are in a different city and state each night, “hosting” some event.  Models can make $2K-10K, on just showing up to a nightclub.  In addition to hosting events at nightclubs, models get paid a lot of money in appearances for other events such as; trade shows, auto shows, gun shows, etc.  Some models choose to do endorsements, with endorsements ranging from as small as a local restaurant to as big as Sean John or Rocafella clothing wear.

Danielle Crawley, a former video vixen was able to leverage her experience and contacts into a Modeling Agency to provide female models for music videos.  I guess this would be the equivalent of becoming a “Madame.”  Her modeling agency was turned into a reality show, Candy Girls and aired on E! in 2009.  (And then they cancelled the show as soon as they finally let Kysha model!)

However, there are a few popular career paths video vixens follow; music, book deals, and television.  I’m not sure anybody would have thought when they saw Angel Lola Luv for the first time in the Trey Songz’s, “Wonder Woman” video, she would be dropping a mixtape or starring in a straight to DVD movie.  Karrine Steffans was able to turn a nickname like, “Superhead” into a multi-million dollar book deal.  (Remind me to tell y’all why I think Kat Stacks is a genius.)  Last, but not least, Melyssa Ford, one of the most notable video vixens of the 2000s was able to flip her music video experience into a television deal.  She hosted, BET’s How I’m Living and BET Style.

Vida Guerra and Amber Rose have been able to do something that most of the “video models” have never been able to do and that’s cross over into mainstream.  Vida Guerra was able to become one of FHM’s sexiest females in 2005.  Amber Rose reportedly has been signed to Ford Model Agency.  And if that ain’t coming up, I don’t know how else to define it.

So to me it seems like “urban models” or video vixens catch a bad rap for their chosen profession, but behind the scenes it isn’t really just a cute face and a big booty.  I’m sure we know now that without excellent business savvy you’ll end up out of the industry in just a short time.  If you have a dream of being a video vixen forever you’ll end up nowhere.  The video vixens who have a dream and a passion to use the industry to capitalize and do better for themselves may actually get somewhere.  Isn’t that ambitious?

Last thing, I’ll say here is, as I was writing this article I noticed that a lot of these women sold sex to make a profit and get access to other parts of the entertainment industry, like music and movies.  I started to think if they were better or worse than rappers who sell drugs or perpetuate violence to gain access to other parts of the entertainment industry, like music or movies.  Food for thought.

Dr J.

(@DrJayJack)

Editors Note: “Yup, good to hoe.”

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kat stacks yup good to hoe

Kat Stacks embodies everything we hate about women and everything we love about women at the same time. It’s a sign of indecision that a woman who has seized power in sleeping with men, rather than being deducted as the overpowered. So why do women hate this woman who doesn’t hate herself? There’s a short answer and there’s a long answer. The short answer is that deep down inside everyone wants to be Kat Stacks, since they can’t then… ooh she nasty.

For those of you who haven’t heard Kat Stacks is a Venezuelan chick who has made it big by confessing or claiming to have slept with several celebrities, mainly Young Money. In which she smashed the whole crew and Lil’ Wayne gave her $1200. She also hit off Nelly. But he called her up on the radio and had her stuttering like Usher. My my my… You should check out her blog, it’s really hilarious. Or stop being lazy and just google her.

Despite the fact that she uses the N word a little too much for my liking, I’m not able to hate on her as much as some of the public hates on her. I think something struck a chord with me, “A lot of you girls give it up for free, at least I get paid.” I’m so perplexed by this statement because a lot of girls do just give up the goods for free. We used to play that game in grade school where we would ask, “Would you sleep with X for $500, Would you sleep with X for $1 million, so how much would you sleep with X for?” And when the person replied, “Nothing” we would fall out laughing. But that’s really what goes on in this world these days. Women give it up for nothing, and then want to know why men don’t value it. But Kat’s on to something here…

Why were so many people up in arms about Kat Stacks smashing the homies, when Kat Stacks didn’t deny it, or feel bad about it? This is what I’m still waiting on an answer about. Is it that women don’t like when women promote loose behavior because it makes them all look bad? You know what looks bad? The fact that Kat Stacks got paid for smashing the homies, and you effed Ray-Ray’s broke a*s for free. I know it’s a couple people under the sight of this post who would smash Trey Songz and Chris Brown if they could. They would even do it in one fell swoop. And they would do it for free, but Kat Stacks did get a little money out of it. She also “allegedly” got a book deal and gets paid appearances at clubs now too.

Then I sat down and it got a little clearer, a lot of women let a boy beat for less, but not free. Women let a dude beat for a pair of shoes, an outfit, a drink, admission into the club, a ride to the club, a meal, or even just for association. I mean after all, at some point in your life you have to rationalize why you slept with old homeboy. They tell us dudes, “You paid for the p*ssy some way, somehow, but no p*ssy is free.” I didn’t believe that, but it’s true.

You know what else is true? It is a testament of our generation that someone such as Kat Stacks can be famous, or have some notoriety for her presence. Let’s keep in mind people that Kat Stacks only has one claim to fame, her vagina. A lot of women have been trying to make it in America off brains, wit, looks, or whatever is new this week and this girl made it off of vagina. I’m reminded of something a wise man once said to me, “Women don’t receive any credit for going to school or excelling in their career, it’s not required. A man’s plight in life is to provide for his family. So if she wants to do all that it’s cool, but it’s not required and thus I don’t applaud it. A man is going to take care of all that himself.”

My question to you is three-fold. Is a woman’s vagina that golden that she can use it to make it in this world? Should anyone be mad at Kat Stacks if Kat Stacks isn’t mad at herself? As the great Fatman Sccop asked you a few years ago, “Who f*cking tonight!?”