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Love & Hip Hop’s Winter Ramos talks Dating, Why She Doesnt Watch The Show + More

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire)Category: Features

(AllHipHop News) Winter Ramos has over 15 years of experience in the Hip Hop industry as everything from a wardrobe stylist for Murder Inc to manager for Fabolous. Unbeknownst to the majority of the people who watch her on Love & Hip Hop is the behind the scene stories that would lead someone to writing a tell-all book detailing the entertainment industry’s secret world. Winter Ramos talks exclusively with AllHipHop about h0w she got herself caught up in this industry, how she could write thousands of pages worth of industry stories and more. [ALSO READ: EXCLUSIVE: Game and Jadakiss Appear In Winter Ramos’ Tell-All Book] AllHipHop: What were your motivations and your mindset for writing this book? Everyone had been telling me ‘you should write a book.’ I started hearing it from so many different people. Honestly, I didn’t think my story was that interesting. I lived it. That’s my day do tday. It’s not a big deal. But, when you start talking to people who are not a part of the industry and start start telling people, male and female, it’s like ‘That’s crazy.’ That’s an aspiring for a young woman who want to get in this industry. They watch videos and they think that is all it is about. When in actuality there is a whole world behind those cameras that people do not know about. AllHipHop: What was one of the toughest situations to talk about in the book? Nothing. I’m usually an open book as far as things that are bothering or issues that I have. I do not embarrass easily and I am not ashamed of anything that I have done. For me, I like to tell my story whether it makes me look crazy or makes me look good. I rather tell my story so I can get honest opinions. I don’t like to pick and choose what I tell people. Even with me being on a show like Love and Hip Hop. I could get on the show like a lot of ladies and say ‘Oh I don’t do that. I don’t date celebrities.’ Then people get up in your business anyway. The hardest part of writing the book was picking what stories to put in the book. What fit with the timeline. What was too much information. If I told everything the book would probably be 10,000 pages long. AllHipHop: So how did you choose what to put in and what not to? We just put a list of names and I jotted down situations with each. I also had journals that the publisher went through. It was a matter of process of elimination.  The majority of the events in each chapter, I learned something from them so if it was a situation where I felt like I didn’t learn anything from it or I felt no one else could learn anything from it then we didn’t use it. AllHipHop: You’re as controversial off the show as you are on the show Love & Hip Hop.  What do you think is your character on the show? I have no idea. I don’t think they gave me a  character. You know why I say that? If it’s someone like Tahiry or Raqi. You see every week in three to four scenes an episode so you can get a better idea of the person that they are. When you see me for eight seconds in one episode and then see me for 30 seconds in the next you cant build a character. There was no character building. No one knows how I talk. No one knows that I’m funny. No one knows that I’m caring. They don’t know what the hell is going on in my life. All they know is that a book is coming out. Period. People on Twitter always saying “well what does she do?” You don’t know any of that if you didn’t watch last season when I was on  with Emily. You didn’t know I was Fab’s assistant. You didn’t know I did styling at Murda Inc. You didn’t know I worked at Slip-N-Slide Records. I worked Rick Ross projects. AllHipHop: You’re as controversial off the show as you are on the show Love & Hip Hop.  What do you think is your character on the show? I have no idea. I don’t think they gave me a  character. You know why I say that? If it’s someone like Tahiry or Raqi. You see every week in three to four scenes an episode so you can get a better idea of the person that they are. When you see me for eight seconds in one episode and then see me for 30 seconds in the next you cant build a character. There was no character building. No one knows how I talk. No one knows that I’m funny. No one knows that I’m caring. They don’t know what the hell is going on in my life. All they know is that a book is coming out. Period. People on Twitter always saying “well what does she do?” You don’t know any of that if you didn’t watch last season when I was on  with Emily. You didn’t know I was Fab’s assistant. You didn’t know I did styling at Murder Inc. You didn’t know I worked at Slip-N-Slide Records. I worked Rick Ross projects. AllHipHop: Which storyline is your favorite on Love & Hip Hop? I don’t watch the show. AllHipHop: Oh you don’t watch the show? No. [Laughs] There are episodes of myself that I still haven’t seen. I don’t know it’s weird seeing yourself on TV. It’s awkward.  I don’t look at myself as Winter Ramos on Love & Hip Hop. I’m just a Spanish girl from the projects that has grinded in the industry that has got the chance to get on TV because of her hardwork. AllHipHop: How did you get into the industry? What made you want to get into this industry? When I was in High School I used to go to this club called The Tunnel. A lot of […]

Love & Hip-Hop’s Tahiry Dazzles At “Devil” Single Release Party in NYC

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire)Category: MOBILE

(AllHipHop News) Tahiry Jose’s hustler spirit has taken her across primetime television, amateur YouTube videos, strip clubs, music videos, magazine cover shoots and charity events. The release party for her first ever single, “Devil” showcased her diverse appeal in its layout and attendants. [ALSO READ: EXCLUSIVE AllHipHop Interview With Tahiry] The single release party for the Love & Hip Hop New York vixen was held at New York City’s W.I.P. Low lights, overflowing drinks and a digitally imposed stone face Cocktail waitresses decked in tight firey red dresses made sure patrons’ drinks were never empty and the party-goers got antsy relatively quickly with some taking entertainment into their own hands as they waited. Yes, there was that lone middle age woman grinding on the air. While attendants awaited Tahiry’s arrival they were greeted with a sneak peak into the remix of “Devil” featuring D-Block’s Styles P and Uncle Murda which will be released soon. Only Styles P’s verse was played and the decade-plus veteran waxed Jose’s bitter love tale with tough love lyrics that only a Gangster & A Gentleman can deliver. [ALSO READ: Tahiry’s New Single “Devil”] The party started at 7pm and was scheduled to end at 11pm, however the woman of the hour did not arrive until well after 9pm. A few party-goers grew restless and left before she arrived. Joe Budden arrived with Tahiry but stayed long enough to give a few handshakes in the VIP section and pose with his vivacious ex. Never one to disappoint in the appearance department, Tahiry kept it simple chic with a lace see-through top, long black skirt with splits in the front to showcase her golden tone thighs.   The cast of MTV’s Washington Heights show, legendary battle rapper Murda Mook, Uncle Murda, R&B singer Baiyu and even Love & Hip Hop co-star Rich Dollaz were all in attendance. Notable absences from the event were Tahiry’s Love & Hip Hop besties Winter Ramos and Rashida Jones along with the other Love & Hip Hop New York cast members. Check below for Tahiry’s night-ending speech and more photos from the night. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAS-YiUjYEM] [ALSO READ: Tahiry’s Married?]  

Love & War: Tahiry on Joe Budden, Her New Music and Almost Becoming a Cop

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire)Category: Features

Tahiry Jose will forever be linked to two things she can not shake. Her devil (Joe Budden) and her ass (pun slightly intended). Both have helped her become a fixture on blog sites and magazine covers long before VH1 came calling for Love & Hip Hop New York. You can almost argue that the Dominican bombshell and the No Love Lost rapper’s YouTube adventures back in 2009 was the catalyst for that show’s creation. However, it is 2013 and the Dimes & Rhymes cover beauty has grown from an internet baby into a primetime starlet right before our eyes. Jose, 33, is now a philanthropist, an actress and recently released her first song as a recording artist entitled, “Devil”.  Tahiry spoke in an EXCLUSIVE AllHipHop interview about the making of her song “Devil”, if she will continue dissing Joe Budden’s new girlfriend, Kaylin Garcia and how she almost could have got you arrested. [ALSO READ: Tahiry’s New Song “Devil”] AllHipHop: I have to ask you about this song “Devil” that has made its rounds through the internet. You sat down with some writers for the song so how involved were you in the writing process? Tahiry: I sat down with Shannon Jones.  I was all the way involved. I was f*cken going through it. This was done months and months ago. At the moment, I heard the hook when I was in the studio with Shannon and said “That’s my hook!” This is Tahiry who is just learning, I’m still like “That’s my hook!” It developed into something. You got this hook about a devil that I can relate to because we woman always have a devil we can  never get away from. So you start tapping into your past. So you start thinking about your past situations that are never ending. Speaking with Shannon, we went back and forth with it until “Devil” was created. Were you worried about the reception? Because calling somebody a devil are fighting words. But it says your my Devil. [Laughs] So no matter how good or bad your are, you’re MY devil. Everybody has that person who is not good for you. Who is toxic. It’s not good for you but it’s never ending. I remember watching you back in 2009 when you were shy during your first interview. Now you are on magazine covers, starring in reality shows, doing songs and handling interviews like a pro. What changed in the past 3 or 4 years? Everything. I’m just evolving as a person. As a personality. As an artist. Basically growth. I started as an internet baby to being on covers.  Joe [Budden] and I first started something that I don’t think we knew would turn into what it did. How did music out of this? I didn’t see this coming. Neither did I. [Laughs] Music came from me going through my issues. It was therapeutic for me. Is this a serious endeavor? I started to play around and have fun with it and then I realized it was something I wanted to really grow in and I want to learn. It’ sreally new to me and I am taking it serious because I want to get better. Did you grow up in a musical household? Yes I did, but it was more so Spanish. I’m Dominican so it was more Salsa and meringue  Then Hip Hop the older I got. Then again, being in a relationship with someone who is a old soul. So I learned from him Kool & The Gang, Prince. Music has always been around me. I remember walking in to the booth and was like “Oh god” and then going back for more. Then going to see a vocal coach. To me it’s proving to myself to prove that I grow at something. Speaking of your upbringing in Harlem. I just saw the latest episode of Love & Hip Hop and I have to ask. Did you take boxing lessons or something at some point in your life? Oh my god I am so so so so ashamed of that little part right there. I..I..I got out of character. Yeah I took some boxing classes here and there as a workout. I’m in the gym a lot so yeah, took a few. [Laughs] I remember Joe told Raqi [Thunder] in an episode, “One thing that would have happened was Tahiry would have whooped your ass. Do you have a violent history? No, No. I’m actually pretty sweet. But once you take me there… Again, I should have known better. I am not proud of that moment. But through editing, you guys only see about ten seconds of anything when we’ve been going back and forth for hours. But I am not happy about that whatsoever. But I can defend myself. [Laughs] [ALSO READ: J.R. Smith fined $25k For Tahiry Booty Pic] Since the show is still being taped, do you watch some of the episodes and think, “Aww man, they should have shown this?” Absolutely. Of course. I have watched these episodes more than once. Even your train of thought is different when you ‘re watching yourself like ‘damn I should have known better.’ Another thing, we are not in control of the editing. So they edit it and you watch it and it’s like ‘wait a minute.’ I didn’t flip that quick. It actually took me an hour or two. But the viewer doesn’t get to see that. How has it been doing press and promoting the show with people from the show, specifically Joe Budden, that you may not get along with? Umm, it depends on the day. Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes we don’t speak. For the most part, I knew most of the cast members before I decided to get on. We’re all cool. We’re able to separate work from personal. Sometimes we intertwine both. You aren’t just beauty but you have brains and a Bachelor’s degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. What were trying to do with that? What was your original goal? My original thought was anything in the […]