However, it was the way Wayne acted as he put her out of the home out of pretense. Nivea said she was a housewife at home, but there was obviously a problem with her age. “He said come be with me, I got you…we were young and I think at the time he was one of those guys who wanted to be bigger and on top not equal,” she said. However, when they met in New Orleans, the rap legend told her he didn’t really want to do a solo collab, but he really wanted her phone number.īefore long, the two clicked and were in love to the point that Wayne convinced Nivea to leave the industry and live with him in NOLA. Weezy hit up her label and said he wanted to collaborate with the singer as he was working on his solo project. The singer sat down with Kandi Burruss’ YouTube show “ On That Note“, where she spoke of her experience with Lil Wayne, including her bond with Lauren London, who was dating Wayne at the same and them being pregnant and going the journey with support from each other.Īccording to Nivea, Weezy saw her in the video for her 2002 hit “Don’t Mess With My Man,” and was immediately smitten and reached out to her label to collaborate.īefore long, the two became involved as Lil Wayne swept her off her feet, and they two were in love to a point where Nivea says she allowed Weezy to convince her to leave show business and live with him. Still, it wasn’t Nivea‘s music life that was intriguing as much as it was her love life and relationship to Lil Wayne who went out of his way to woo her but also hurt her badly.
The R&B singer was a star in her own rights and was on the way to bigger things in the early 2000s with hits like the Grammy-nominated “Don’t Mess with My Man”, “Laundromat”, and “Okay” featuring YoungBloodZ and Lil’ Jon, which did well on the Billboard charts.
However, due to toxic label politics, recalled copies of her sophomore album Complicated, and relationships and eventual parenthood with Lil Wayne and The-Dream, her music career quickly faded as fast as it arrived.Nivea share details about her past relationship with Lil Wayne in a tell-all interview. While “Laundromat” and “Radio” achieved modest success, it was “My Man” that gave Nivea her biggest hit to date peaking at No. Her eponymous debut album spawned three singles - “Don’t Mess With the Radio,” “Don’t Mess with My Man” (with Brian and Brandon Casey of Jagged Edge)” and “Laundromat” (with labelmate R. Dream tells me to this day that people are shocked at the deal I managed to get–a million dollar deal at 18.” “So my manager was a straight up con-artist and told them I wrote these songs but I didn’t write anything until we started doing the album. “My first song was Organized Noize called “Don’t Mess With The Radio” which sounded extremely urban in my opinion,” she said. Nivea, who started working on her first album, was dubbed by Jive Records executive, Clive Calder, as the “Black Britney Spears” At the time, Nivea had colorful hair, wore midriffs that matched her slim figure and singing songs mixed with bubblegum pop and R&B flare. The song would go on to top the R&B/Hip-Hop charts and crossover to pop radio peaking at No. Kelly, Joe, and Mystikal with whom Nivea would sing the hook on his “Danger (Been So Long)” track. On the flip side, the label also had gritty urban talent which was R. At the time, the label was experiencing an economic boom with the breakout pop success of the bubblegum artists on their roster which included *NSYNC, Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys.