Confessions of a Video Vixen

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The only interesting feature of this book is the private/sexual profiles of the stars mentioned above. How many times have we all been offered a loan on some item suggested by a friend and even though we had no intention whatsoever in life of ever having such an item in your life. In one of the last chapters, she talks about her affair in 2004 with Usher, after she said that she had learned her lesson. Even she makes the link between her affairs with numerous married men and her mom's past of sleeping with men and becoming impregnated to trap them (including her own father).

In this story there was no message to stop what she was doing in any way mostly because as she said she enjoyed it all the way to the end. First of all, Steffans tries to identify herself as a "video vixen" but then reveals in the book that most women in music videos are actually professional models and have little to do with the hip hop social scene. Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry--from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life--to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. She also seems to sensualize some of her stories but then they just end abruptly yet she can tell you exact details of materialistic things like what suit a person wore or what kind of car a person drove plus the interior of the car. Simultaneously, the author began managing musical talent, shaping the careers of young, unsigned musicians with Ampersand Music.Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry-from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life-to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. When she fails to adequately show that personal growth and self-reflection, the shallow accountings of her quick affairs seem more tell-all, less memoir, and certainly not cautionary tale. If you are looking for a deeply emotional look into her life, life-altering revelations, secrets of success and lessons learned, this is not the book for you.

In addition, the rate at which she "fell in love" with these men who were clearly passing her around like toilet paper. I'm not at all convinced she has actually learned the lessons she claims to want to teach the rap video-girl wannabes that pick up her book. Throughout the book she places blame for her circumstances on almost everyone that she comes in contact with in life.

The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. She sleeps with every man in the book, except her father, to wit: Kool G Rap (her common-law husband, who forced her to blow him for hours on end under Miyagi-esque tutelage), Ice-T, Ja Rule, Vin Diesel, Shaquille O'Neal, Ray J, Usher, Mystikal, Jay-Z (no sex but she blows him in a cold mechanical fashion), Dr. This book gives you an inside look in to the less than glamorous hip hop world, that is often portrayed in music videos. It just doesn't sit well with me but I need to give this memoir 5 stars on the basis that Karrine Steffans had the courage to talk about her story and put it out into the world despite being aware of the hate she would later on receive.