The Queen Bee Is About To Lose Her Hive!

Lil' Kim continues to fall off the wagon.

Lil' Kim is facing foreclosure on her New Jersey home after years of blowing off the bills. The $3 million New Jersey home is about to be on the auction block after the rapper failed paying them house payments.

HSBC Bank sued Kimberly Jones to foreclose on the mansion back in 2010, but Kim managed to starve off the foreclosure until late last year, when a judge put her in default. 

The home which sits on two acres was paid for $2.2 million with a nearly $1.6 million mortgage, and agreed monthly payments of nearly $10,000 a month.

Lil' Kim and her lawyers have since been trying to save the house through mediation with the bank.

The Queen Bee hasn't paid the loan since 2009 and the bank said enough is enough.

Her home sits in Bergen County, a high class region in Northeastern New Jersey. 

Remember back in 2008, Lil' Kim got her Bentley repossessed. The junk food media embarrassed her by appearing at her door. When she had a fallout with her then cocaine partner Scott Storch, he filed for bankruptcy. The repo man came to Kim's home and warned her that she don't pay up, she may face a TMZ moment.

Lil' Kim hasn't released an full length album in 10 years. She had released a mixtape to little fanfare this year. She will appear at the Sean "Puffy" Combs's Bad Boy Reunion tour with Cassie, French Montana and Machine Gun Kelly. The former acts Faith Evans, The Lox (D-Block), Mase and 112 will be there as well. 

Lil' Kim has been feuding with a younger and more popular talent since the junk food media called the rival the Queen of Rap. 

She basically lost the crown to the young and very popular (for the time being) Nicki Minaj.

Lil' Kim's home is located in Alpine, New Jersey

Nicki Minaj, Iggy Azalea, Dej Loaf, and rap troll Azealia Banks are in demand female rappers. 

Kim, Foxy Brown, Eve, Shawnna, Da Brat, Trina and Missy Elliott were once considered the most mainstream female acts of the late 1990s and 2000s. Nowadays, they end up either on reality television or blowing money fast in stupid investments. Eventually, they may end up getting a little buzz on television or radio like Kim's shocking plastic surgery. Many in the Black community criticized her for bleaching her skin White. 

Lil' Kim became a first time mother at age 40. Her boyfriend, rapper Mr. Papers is a 30 year old nobody who got famous for knocking the Queen Bee up. Now he's fighting for custody of their child.

To make matter worse, she may not be the only one losing the crib.

DipSet's Juelz Santana isn't rocking with Def Jam anymore. That loan was recalled and he can't keep his crib anymore. He failed at paying them bills and the bank took his home as well. 

Ms. Biggie Smalls: Diddy's Actions Led My Dad To His Grave!

T'yanna Wallace, the daughter of Biggie Smalls.

T'yanna Wallace, the daughter of the greatest MC of all time calls out Sean "Puffy" Combs.

She was totally out of the loop when Diddy didn't invite her to a celebration concert for her father.

T'yanna is the daughter of the Notorious B.I.G., a Brooklyn based rapper/producer who rose to critical acclaim after releasing Ready to Die and put Combs's label Bad Boy on the map.

She took to social media to slam the media mogul for being being a liar and fake ass punk for not including her and mother Jan Jackson. Biggie also had a son with Faith Evans named Christopher Wallace, Jr, known as CJ.

Diddy quickly reached out to her. He said that his made a mistake and he will invite T'yanna and her family to the concert. T'yanna scrubbed her social media posts and told the junk food media, everything is cool.

CJ Wallace. The son of late rapper Notorious B.I.G. and Faith Evans.

The Notorious B.I.G. (born Christopher George Latore Wallace) won praise and respect among most MCs. He also got entangled into a huge feud with Tupac Shakur and his label Death Row. The junk food media labeled their feud the East Coast vs. West Coast hip-hop war. It ultimately ended in the death of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in September 1996.

Biggie Smalls as he was also known was murdered in Los Angeles after leaving a hip-hop awards party in March 1997. Some say that the death was a retaliation killing and the murders of both Biggie and 'Pac still remain unsolved.

His last living album Life After Death came out a few days later.

T'yanna was only three years old when her father was gunned down. CJ was only a few month old when his father was gunned down.

The rapper would have been 44-years old if he was alive today. His birthday was on May 20.

T'yanna is a graduate from Penn State.

Who Wrote The "I Hate Black Women" Book?

The book says it clearly.

Some nobody wrote a book highly critical of Black women. The writer assuming its a pen name wrote this book called "I Hate Black Women".

Now there's a backlash against the writer and the companies that promote this.

The writer T.C. Writer (ahem) wrote this provocative, controversial and certainly much talked about book. This Writer person is an American author who writes about the elephant in the room that everyone pretends is not there. "The goal is to ruffle a few bird feathers because angry people seek change, and complacent people don't."

T.C. Writer claims that she rapidly learned that your work will never please everyone. Balancing daily hate mail with messages from those hailing her as a maverick who isn't scared to speak the truth, Writer is on a lifelong mission to help fellow African American women better themselves. But her tools are not conventional, including 'I Hate Black Women', Writer's latest book. Firm in her belief that the African American audience respond better to hate than love, Writer's provocative manifesto untangles how black women often make life difficult for themselves, fostering a culture and reputation that ultimately finds them discriminated on by the rest of society.

This Writer said that Black women need to dial back their attitudes and fall in line with the system.

Basically this writer claims that the Black woman must act right in the presence of the Black man and White people.

Yeah, Black women are discriminated against. Ask Raven Symone, she said she wouldn't hire any women with a Black sounding name.

Raven-Symone is an example of Black women who attack their own.

Hear the nonsense from that annoying conservative agitator. The worst cable news host to ever have a program constantly says that First Lady Michelle Obama is a downright mean person. When she said that "for the first time" she was proud of her country, that annoying conservative agitator says that Mrs. Obama is "an angry Black woman".

Matter of fact, even that old fart Limbaugh said that "Moo Chelle" is the type of women Alex Rodriguez refuse to date.

How about when the Madame Tussauds decided to reveal the Nicki Minaj figure. They designed the wax figure to a likeness of her Anaconda music video. The famous pose by the entertainer was being vandalized by horny jerks and sexual perverts.

In her mind, the Black woman are destructive to America.

She calls upon the American people to address this. If we refuse to address it, we're going to be considered complacent.

Well I guess I am complacent. I am not down with this garbage. I am not going to allow this hateful book spread the seeds of distrust, division and diversion about Black women.

Here's what you're going to hear from concern trolls. Did you read the book?

Many in the Black community are very reactionary. We are willing to take action against something without reading it. Before I sign off the Change.org petition to have it removed from Amazon's website, I want to know what I'm dealing with.

Of course, the difficult job of looking for this book will be the challenge.

Any thoughts on this controversy?

Angie Stone Saw Bars After Knocking Her Daughter's Teeth Out!

Angie Stone saw the bars after allegations of a physical assault on her daughter.

When you're not doing much where do you go?

Reality Television.

Hey how about this R&B singer Angie Stone?

She is on TVOne's R&B Divas and it's a hit. Literally, a hit.

Considering that Stone got to spend some time in the DeKalb County jail after allegations that she assaulted her daughter. I guess the old saying, "You really knocked someone's teeth out!" means something.

Entertainer's mugshot.

Stone got her daughter picking up teeth. She hit her with the metal pipe.

That charge may get her fired out the cannon on R&B Divas. But worse, it's going to be a possible five year sentence for her. Not to mention a strain on the relationship with her daughter and grandchildren.

The celebrity agitator TMZ and the Atlanta Journal Constitution put some info out on the troubled R&B singer.

Police in Dekalb County tell TMZ ... 53-year-old Angie told police her daughter Diamond punched her in the face. Angie then told police she defended herself with a metal stand, but accidentally hit Diamond in the face ... knocking out her front teeth.

Angie told police once she realized the mistake she put down the stand and tried to flee ... but claims Diamond came after her again. A family friend eventually broke up the fight.

Diamond told police the argument started when Angie complained Diamond didn't clean up after her children. Diamond was also taken into custody, but eventually released without being charged.

Faith Evans, who produces the show, wanted Stone on the show the first season but the timing didn't work out until the second season. Stone's role is that of a mentor and life coach.

This wasn't the first run in for Stone. Angie Stone (legally Angela Brown), was caught up on driving without a license.

Biggie: The Real King of New York!

The legend Biggie Smalls

Today marks another grave milestone in American music.

On March 9, 1997, a rap legend died. The legendary Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in Los Angeles after attending a party for Vibe Magazine. The 25 year old rapper's death still remains a mystery to this day.

I woke up to hearing the news. My mom told us that this rapper named Biggie was shot. I was shocked by this. We all knew this day was coming. I was just listening to the single "Notorious Thugs" on the radio two days ago and I had used the cassette tape to record it.

Never in my day, that rap lost two legends in a six month period.

If you're a real fan of hip-hop, you would know Biggie Smalls (aka Frank White).

The Brooklyn MC who is the real king of New York hip-hop.

No one can take that. Not even Nas or Jay-Z.

Wallace was raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. When he released his debut album Ready to Die in 1994, he became a central figure in the East Coast hip hop scene and increased New York's visibility in the genre at a time when West Coast hip hop was dominant in the mainstream.

The following year, Wallace led his childhood friends to chart success through his protégé group, Junior M.A.F.I.A. While recording his second album, Wallace was heavily involved in the growing East Coast/West Coast hip hop feud.

Before the release of his Life After Death album, got booed by some West Coast rappers at the Soul Train Awards after presenting an award.

During the night, he was with his entourage attending a Vibe Magazine party. Then when he was leaving for his hotel, a vehicle pulls up and opens fire on him. He was hit four times. Out of three bullets one managed to hit the vitals. He was rushed to the hospital and died that night.

That led to speculation that Big Suge ordered a hit on him in retaliation. There are some who believed that Tupac Shakur's murder was orchestrated by Biggie and Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Biggie and Shakur's death led to the decline of quality hip-hop. Although this decline in music still exist, many rappers dedicate their legacies to them.

Many in the law enforcement industry feels that hip-hop's no snitching philosophy doomed their chances to solve these mysteries.

But still we here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to family of the Notorious B.I.G.

Also R.I.P. to Christopher Rios (aka Big Pun), Chad Butler (aka Pimp C), Lisa Lopes (aka Left-Eye), Aaliyah Houghton, Tupac Shakur (aka Makaveli), Eric Wright (aka Eazy-E), Jason Mizell (aka Jam Master Jay), James Adarryl Tapp (aka Soulja Slim), Russell Jones (aka Ol' Dirty Bastard), DeShaun Holton (aka Proof) and every rapper or R & B singer who passed away.

BIGGIE: WE MISS YA!

Carmela Bertagna- John Singer Sargent's Model and Muse

John Singer Sargent's muse, Carmela Bertagna. She's very beautiful and an extraordinary model in her own right.

Here's an essay on the girl dancer and model Carmela Bertagna



Carmela Bertagna, a Spanish-Parisian model who modelled for painter John Singer Sargent. Very little is known about her life, except that she lived with her mother and brother. Her father is unknown. She and her family had to work in order to make ends meet for themselves. She is of Spanish descent and modelled with various artists, including John Singer Sargent. Her Mediterranean Latin looks fascinated Sargent, who was captivated by magnificent Rosina Ferrara of Capri a year earlier.

Carmela Bertagna posed as a young girl begging for alms for John Singer Sargent's painting, "A Parisian Beggar Girl", where she sported unkempt hair semi covered with a veil and wore a stark white gown trimmed in black. She leaned against a very stark white wall, a prop which Sargent used in his later pictures, most notably, "Fumee d"Amberigis," a famous picture in which Sargent placed a magnificently dressed Arab woman against a stark white wall. Carmela also posed for the self-titled picture in which she was dressed in her native peasant costume accentuated with a long, pink, furry-like shawl. Her stare according to some people is like that of a predator, namely a wolf. Bizet contemptuously described Carmen as having eyes like that of a wolf. I'm disturbed about the description. The description implicates that certain groups of women have "animal-like" personalities. It goes back to the ancient stereotyping of women as wicked temptresses who led men astray. The stereotype of a Spanish temptress was the theme of George Bizet's Carmen, a play that shocked conservative middle class audiences when it first performed in 1875. Carmela sports a red ribbon in her hair, which was typical of most Mediterranean women of the late 19th century.

Famous R&B singer Faith Evans have a vague resemblance to Carmela. She is also of Mediterranean ancestry in her multi ethnic makeup and is very ethnic in appearance. Faith's father, Richard Swain, is of Italian Ancestry. Her mother is African American. So is the opera singer Julia Migenes. As a matter of fact, she resembles her in some of her pictures on the internet. Ms. Migenes is of Greek, Irish-Puerto Rican descent and was known for her starring role in the 1984 opera movie, Carmen. She played the title character. Carmela Bertagna wouldn't look out of place in Bizet's Carmen: She's similar the Carmen character: Sultry, seductive, and independent.

In the 19th century ultra-conservative Catholic Spanish society, Gypsies, Middle Easterners, Jews, and poor people are regarded as menaces to the respectable, law- abiding people. It is the same in the 21st Century with us Americans, particularly conservatives and most liberals(a.k.a. SWPL) stereotype and demean certain groups of people to be outsiders: unpopular racial minorities such as blacks, immigrant groups such as Latinos, the underclass and poor of all races and ethnicity, prisoners(The U.S. has the largest prison industrial complex of all the industrial nations), gays, feminists(think Rush Limbaugh's contempt for them), and so on. With welfare reform initiated by Clinton back in 1997, we are seeing plenty poor/working class women, especially Women of Color, struggling to put food and other necessities for their families as well as working at low quality jobs in the future decades. Also, Proposition 187 initiated by Pete Wilson as well as the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 tend to punish immigrants of color as well as poor and working class Americans by telling them that they cannot use taxpayers' funds to help ease their way into the mainstream, that means not using public assistance nor attending public schools like other people. We Americans stereotype Black, Latina, and Native American women as "baby mamas", "welfare queens", and "loose women."  It was the same in France back in the late 19th Century when the French agonized over the Arrivals of Italian and Spanish migrants as well as Roma(formerly known as "Gypsies").

The Carmela picture tells us about the demographics of French society in the late 19th Century. When you look at the picture, remember her as an innocent young girl caught up in circumstances beyond her control, not to condemn her as an outcast or a "tramp."