BOBBY VALENTINO BITCHES AT NE-YO ....

When you are signed to a record label, you get artists more established and much more successful than others. So it's only natural that the record label is going to promote and spend money on artists who are bringing cake and making THEM a profit. No record company is going to budget further promo and money into an artist who aint selling. Bobby's album Special Occasion was a nice album, a lot nicer than Ne-yo's Because of You but his latest album sales were somewhat of a disappointment. And Bobby is upset because Def Jam has halted further promotion and won't grant him another video. And for that, who does he blame? Ne-yo of course. He believes that Ne-yo is pretty much the face of the label. "I see that he gets a lot of attention, he gets a lot of bells and whistles but sometimes you need those things to push you over the top," chides Bobby V, sounding like a whining bitch in the process.

Bobby also attended day one of the Essence Music Festival yesterday:

You don't see Chrisette Michele bitching about Rihanna getting all the priority at Def Jam. And poor Sterling Simms STILL can't put out an album. As with Bobby, you either have something that motivates the general public to sit up and take notice or you don't. At the event, Ciara performed and did her tired ass matrix-influenced dance moves. Tomorrow, it will be day two of the event and Beyonce, Chris Brown and Mary J Blige are all scheduled to perform.