Candy Licker by Noire

Author:Noire [Noire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-49433-7
Publisher: One World
Published: 2005-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Music and Madness

Five months after we signed with Hurricane our self-titled album was released and all three of our lives took a sharp turn. Our first single was a sexually aggressive ballad called “Rett Ta Go” that debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200 album chart and made a lot of impact on the streets. I sang the lead on the sexy little rhythm-and-blues/hip-hop cut that Hurricane had laced with catchy hooks and sassy funk, and suddenly things were happening for Scandalous! and we were in hot demand. All the radio stations in major cities like Detroit, L.A., New York, Chicago, and Atlanta were spinning our cut and trying to get us in their studios for interviews.

Six weeks later “Luver Boy” was released and we didn't know what hit us. The slinky cut was a straight club banger and an instant hit. We recorded our first music video, and MTV snatched it like a hot potato. We were invited to the Essence Music Festival in Nawlins, and we performed at the Soul Train Music Awards too. We were living large and loving it. There were makeup sessions out the ass, hairstylists were all in our faces, tailors were throwing more clothes at us than we'd ever seen in our lives, and to top it all off, Hurricane chartered private jets to shuttle us back and forth between cities and events like they were yellow taxicabs.

The response we were getting was so crucial that all three of us got the big head and it took a black-hearted playa like Hurricane to put our asses back in check.

“Don't start acting major just 'cause they rotating your shit on the radio,” he warned Dominica when she challenged him over something minor like a stage costume she thought looked too hoochie on her. Hurricane and Jadeah controlled everything from what we said in an interview to what kind of outfits we wore on the stage, to how our hair was styled. “Bitch, I own your ass, and if you fuck with me you'll roll outta here wearing the same rags you rolled in with.” Then Hurricane said something that made all of our hearts pump apple juice. “But not until y'all jawns earn out all the funds I been fronting for ya. Don't act stupid. Y'all bitches is broke.”

We went on to perform at the Apollo Theater that night to a sold-out house, and while we gave 100 percent onstage, later as we rode in a limo back to the studio everybody was kinda quiet and I knew what my girls were thinking. If we were racking up the kind of quick sales everybody said we were, then when in the hell was we gonna get our hands on some of that money?

It was after 4:00 A.M., but the House of Homicide was just coming alive as we pulled up to the curb and climbed out the car. We were walking through the door when I went ahead and said what we all were thinking.

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