Thursday, November 06, 2008

The Curse Continues

Everything I like goes downhill. Usually this only involves sports, but now it seems to have extended to music.
After hearing his smash hit "Never Never Land" I checked out a few more Lyfe Jennings songs and loved them all.
Then I read about his backstory. In 1992 he went to prison for 10 years on an arson charge. When he got out, he said his time in jail forced him to get his life together.
He appeared at the Apollo Theater and won 5 straight amateur nights.
That launched his singing career, and he released albums in 2004, 2006 and again in 2008, each one getting more success than the previous one.
But all that success is at risk now as Lyfe might be headed back to jail for a long time.
Jennings's baby-mama, Joy Bounds, reports that at different times he threatend to kill her, threatened to kill her male friend, reported the car she was driving as stolen, turned off the electricity, changed the locks when she was out of town and destroyed her personal belongings. She said “90 percent of my clothes, shoes, panties, socks, jackets, etc.” were cut up, bleached and thrown in the woods and a lake.
The last incident happened in late October, and later that day Jennings came to her house, kicked the door down, and fired a warning shot into the street.
That's when Bounds called police.
When the cops arrived Jennings drove away in his 2005 Corvette, leading police on a high-speed chase which ended when Jennings crashed into a tree.
He refused a sobriety test and cops reported smelling the odor of alcohol on him.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5:23 PM

    I hear this dude Justin Timberlake is pretty good too...you should check him out...

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