'Love And Hip Hop Hollywood' Cast 2015: Teairra Mari Was Expected To Be Bigger Than Rihanna [VIDEO]
While Love & Hip Hop Hollywood star Teairra Mari was once trying to get back into the singing game on the show, we now know why her career didn’t kick off as well as many hoped when she first hit the scene roughly ten years ago.
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Teairra Mari’s mega hit "Make Her Feel Good" was definitely one of the songs that took over the radio in 2005, while her then label mate, Rihanna’s "Pon De Replay" was working its way up the charts.
Now, record executive L.A. Reid has revealed who it was that made Rihanna’s career catapult while Teairra’s singing took a backseat and she was eventually dropped from the label.
He explains in his memoir Sing To Me: Story Of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who’s Next, that he didn’t have a hand in Rihanna’s first album (instead “Jay Z and his team did the A&R”) , even though Teairra Mari and Rihanna were signed at the exact same time.
“We had an in-house company showcase and Beyonce happened to be there with Jay Z,” he revealed. “Teairra Mari, Rihanna, a four-girl group called Black Butterfly and Ne-Yo performed. At the label, we thought Teiarra Mari would be the big star. We spent more time on her, did more work on her, paid more attention to her.”
He went on to say that his perspective on that changed pretty much completely after Beyonce shared her thoughts.
“That Rihanna girl, she’s a beast,” Beyonce said.
